Best Cell Phone Plans For Seniors
Best Cell Phone Plans For Seniors
Apple experts David and David tell you about the best cell phone plans for seniors and debunk some stereotypes relating to senior citizens and technology.
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You guys are fantastic, thank you for looking out for our seniors! ❤️❤️❤️
Can you be on the Verizon prepaid plan and start with new iPhone? Paying for plan and phone in monthly payments?
Recently helped an 80 year old friend leave greatcall and have him in our family plan in metro by TMobile. Also helped him get a new unlocked phone. He is going to pay $25/month unlimited text/calls and 6gb data.
Hey guys! I taught computer literacy to adults 20 years ago! I am now a senior, we are savvy, smart, consumers. We appreciate your help and support and we know when people are talking down to us. We don’t waste time acknowledgeing them.
Just found you today. Thanks so much for all the iPhone helpful tips and plans. As a senior with fixed income I also needed a plan that fits my limited budget. Thanks to both of you for caring about us. God bless you both.
Seniors are the biggest users because we have grand-children all over the country! I don’t have a cell phone yet, never really needed one before. But with my kids living so far away and the cost of my landline keeps going up for no logical reason, I need to cut the line! As you can tell, I’m online, in fact I was online before these two guys were born! Back in the olden days ( 1980) we used bulletin boards, and 900 baud modems, and thought it was the best thing since sliced bread! I also build computers as a hobby, so there’s that as well.
You two are really decent and respectful people. I am not a senior citizen but I thank you for including that generation. They are full of knowledge and experience and valuable and the way our society treats them is so shameful…
This should have been a best talk/text and data plans at verious levels given the senior discounts.
You don’t have Canada
Great information, if possible could you please recommend the best solution for snowbirds while in Florida for a six month period. Unlimited calling, texting and 6gb of data on a bring your own phone plan.
Many thanks
Please: when you indicate that speeds get slowed over certain limits say what the new speed is and what you can still do with their service. Emailing might be unaffected but watching videos maybe not so good. Great topic thanks for covering it. 74yo here and yes I’m tech challenged, hearing challenged, etc so a focus on what could work well for us is appreciated.
I am a senile citizen who uses Straight Talk through Tracfone. For $45.00 + tax I get unlimited talk and text along with 25 gb of data on my iPhone. I use about 22gb every month. The choices in Straight Talk carriers are Verizion, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Second Tracfone itself is inexpensive and very useable with rollover minutes.
You 2 Darrel and your other brother Darrel are not old enough to have a clue about older people. I started with computers in 1978 so what I know more. Everyone has their own needs. How about a function and service cost per provider. Then we can make up our own minds.
Thanks for that idea for the seniors, i’m one of them.
Why did u not cover T-Mobile? We get unlimited minutes, texts and data for $60 for 2 phones. Great coverage. My husband was in Canada this summer. Great coverage there too.
What about a tablet and Skype???
Bah! I wanted to hear about T-Mobile and their Essentials Unlimited 55+ plans!
I’m 65 and medically retired from the Transportation Industry. I have a background in electronics repair and computer programming so I guess I am not your basic stereotype senior citizen. I switched from Simple Mobile to Boost Mobile and the thing I really didn’t like was the signal strength. At Simple Mobile I had unlimited talk, data, messages. At Boost I had the same for the same price but the signal was crappy and calls would drop. I had 5 signal bars at the store and 2.5 miles away at my house which sits on a hill I 1 or 2 bars. I got tired of it and went back to MetroPCS(now Metro By T-Mobile). Now I have 4-5 signal bars at home. After finding a couple of good apps that show where cellphone towers are I realized why I was getting crappy signal at Boost Mobile. Their towers are placed closer to the interstates whereas Simple Mobile, Net 10, Metro By T-Mobile who use T-Mobile towers are in more obscure places.
some seniors still use internet what do you suggest
Why dont you quit talking about seniors and get on with your speil.
GREAT1
I am stuck in an area where I can’t get wi-fi so I am stuck with Verizon unlimited for just me and my 17 year old. I’m at level 56 and don’t consider myself a senior but I guess I am.
Currently, my 98yr old Grandmother’s nursing home has us using the senior ‘Jitterbug’ cell at a low cost. I am looking for a picture tablet to Skype.
I’m about to get a new iPhone , I have an android dont like it at all and now I’m just not happy with my bell provider I don’t use any data at all block it still charging us way to much for what I use it for!!!just use it for texting and talking is all ! Can you suggest which company. is the best for that? New sub here ❤️
While I know there are plenty of seniors that are very savvy, there are just as many that are very much not. My father gets very upset when they keep trying to push smart phones on him. He only wants talk. No text. No voice mail. Nothing. He has used tracfone flip phones for years but he gets REALLY upset when the old phone wears out and the new one is completely different. I mean VERY upset. I don’t know how many seniors you guys actually know, but there are plenty the DO want no features, no bells and whistles phones and service. You are making just as big a generalization assuming all seniors want/need the latest and greatest. I know plenty that would gladly give up the data they never use for a little discount of the monthly charge.
‘Great Call’ Jitterbug call phone is great for seniors in a nursing home. Rooms do not have phones since it is a nursing home, which my grandmother has been in for several yrs, vs an assisted care.
I’m 85 and teach my teen ager internet tricks………not really…….
Bah! I wanted to hear about T-Mobile and their Essentials Unlimited 55+ plans!
Thanks, guys for the good advice…
You guys are totally unaware of disabilities which real senior people face to. So hands shaking, mind problems, so real senility. And then the way how iPhones user interface and how iPhone apps are made, becomes unusable. So for real seniors it is not about camera megapixels, or browsing internet. Have you ever met real senior people, have you visited in senior day centers or homes and talked with them? IN that video you don’t mention or talk at all about the problems which real senior people will get, so when body and mind just don’t work so well any more. Take a look to Baldphone launcher for Android phones, so you maybe understand a little bit or the topic. Then as long as person physics and mind work well, person is not a real senior, so in that age person can use ordinary phones, ordinary user interfaces, ordinary apps – and you are talking about that in your video, but that is not the point at all.
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I use TracFone, costs about $10/mo total for both of my phones (a Samsung Galaxy S9 and a OnePlus 6T). They use all carriers, depending on which SIM card you load into the phone. Don’t need unlimited plans, use WIFI.
1:58 reminds me of human foods cannot be fed to pets, you gotta buy pet foods, and baby dried milk isn’t good for adults
Love the condescension: All these plans talk down to seniors, while making massively broad generalizations about seniors right after…
What’s your opinion on the best flip phones available?
Some of us are doddering and just want to contact family and medical assistance. Some seniors are great and some so so and then there are some who are challenged by most of it. 55-100 is a large age span with varying challeges.
You are too cocky.
I don’t…….I basically only utilize the internet on my Desktop. I stopped utilizing my phone internet. I also hate texting….very impersonal, I prefer talking…it’s faster and more personal. I basically do not trust cellphones.
I’m old and long-retired. But I have 2 doctorates, used to operate very complex computer systems with UI’s that weren’t yet watered down and still repair PC’s for friends. The problems many seniors have when interfacing with tech. are often the result of visual or other physical impairments. Fortunately, many of these problems can addressed. What bothers me most is that seniors are so often cheated, grossly over-paying for the phone services they buy when not understanding what their needs really are. There are very good YT videos that many would find helpful in this regard. The video herein presented is, in my opinion, not one of them.
wasted video
Thanks for your thorough research and great tips 👍🏼
Great info. Thank you.
Obviously you guys have never met my parents. They just can’t do it. My mother had a computer before I got my first one in 1993. She still can’t cut copy and paste; doesn’t understand a virtual file system. My father has a smart phone and you should see him swiping at it when it’s ringing or issuing some notification sound. Shameful. I agree the Great Call folks are a scam but they’re not wrong about some parents; mine ARE pretty much dottering fools around technology.
These companies are making these phones more addicting and for that reason I only want the phone for emergencies. I have a landline phone and I’m very happy with it
I love older phones they are so much cheaper
How very proactive and thoughtful of you to make this video! I work with seniors and I know they would appreciate your advice.
mentioned this yesterday, but xfinity if you have their internet offer a share plan that is very affordable, I talked about the gig plan yesterday but you can get unlimited for I believe $45 but you can share that so the plan ends up being less than $30 per phone. A problem if you move where they dont have xfinity
Really helpful info! Many thanks.
I’m at a loss when i hear ‘lines’. Up to 5 lines… etc. What exactly are we talking about?
T-mobile is notorious for talking down to Seniors!
Please tell me how I may get rid of “people you may know on Facebook.