All the Hacks · Wednesday, September 23, 2026
The speaker claims that advertised carrier deals for new iPhones are often not true savings when factoring in the cost of the plans themselves. Upon analysis, the price of plans with these 'deals' was found to be $30 to $60 per month more expensive than comparable plans on the same network without the advertised discounts.
“Well, it turns out that deals that you see advertised from carriers are not actually deals at all.”
“Now, there might be some edge cases where that's not true, but when I ran through the options, it seemed like I was actually going to be paying so much more for the plan that even these huge discounts didn't matter.”
“However, when I compared almost every single AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile plan that offered the ability to get discounts on new phones, to a comparable and sometimes even better plan running on the exact same network, it was usually $30 to $60 a month more expensive.”