Additional lines in data plans?
My family is looking to upgrade to the data plan and we want to do the cheapest means possible for this (even if it is the most limited). There are four of us who would want smartphones and I've been browsing around Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T. I was looking at the costs for additional lines for smartphones, and I was at the Apple Store and it said that for AT&T's fee for each additional iPhone line was $9.99. I feel like I'm misunderstanding this and it can't be right. I just would like someone to clear things up for me for how much each additional line would cost per iPhone (or smartphone) for each provider and what the cheapest data plan would be along with it.
I think that's for feature phones. Smartphones require a data plan, which costs more.
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