Picture this. The year is 2055. Sitting around the table with robots, cyborgs, and all their little robot-cyborg kids, some of the older members of your family recount the time, some thirty years earlier, when you, yes you, saved the entire family from expensive, inflexible, old wireless plans.
And this lovely meal? Paid for by the savings you all made one Thanksgiving all those years ago.
We’ll be honest: we thought it would be fun to make a nerdy savings calculator to show you how you could save a few thousand dollars over a few years if your whole family switched to US Mobile. We were going to say how you could all take a nice vacation together one day, or buy family mopeds or something in ten years.
Well, um, wow, the numbers were bigger than we expected.
How big? Let’s figure out
(Skip this box if you just want to see a surprisingly large number and don’t care how we got there.)
| Say you’ve got eight family members around the Thanksgiving table and, on average, you’re spending $55 per month per wireless line across your various plans. Maybe the real number is a bit more or a bit less. Then say you all switched to our top-of-the-line Unlimited Premium plan for $32.50/mo. per line. Now you’re saving 40% per month, and also getting a free smartwatch plan, a ton of international roaming data each month, unlimited hotspot, uncapped high speed data, priority data when networks are busy… you get it. A lot more for a lot less. So each of you is saving $22.50 per month (which happens to be the exact cost of our also excellent Unlimited Starter plan), for a total combined monthly savings of $180. Ok, looking good. Say you do nothing at all with that money. You all just stuff the extra cash into a big lumpy mattress. |
How much will you all have saved together after 10 years? $21,600.
The numbers only get crazier from there. In 30 years, that’s $64,800. And if you invest the money, forget it, now you can all be a little rich together.
Just how a little rich can we get from this?
If you invest the monthly savings all together in a big family trust, assuming an 8% annual return (which is on the lower end of stock market returns since the 1960s) in 30 years you and cousins and your cyborg grandchildren will have:
$268,264.70
We checked our math many times on this, because frankly it sounded ridiculous. In 50 years, we’re looking at $1,427,710.95.
Holy moly.
Anyway, these are just placeholder numbers. You can try it for yourself with your actual monthly savings. Bring this out when there’s a lull in conversation at Thanksgiving. Give it to your nerdiest relative.
How to make the switch
Once your extended family has recovered from seeing these numbers, and everyone who fainted has been revived, you can share your personal referral link to help them switch over. Using that link, they’ll each get $25, and you’ll get $25 or more per switch (up to $1,575 😬).
Now’s an excellent time to switch, too. We’re offering our very best prices of the year for Super Week. Take a look here.
Our best-in-the-industry customer support team is available 24/7 to help you and your loved ones get set up. We’ll even help you navigate your old phone company’s nonsense — kind of like a big, annoying final boss in a video game, except the main combat is you’re on hold. Schedule a call with one of our Onboarding Specialists for the full concierge treatment.
If you’ve got any questions, reach us by chat, phone, or email, even on Thanksgiving.
We wish you, your loved ones, and all your cyborg grandchildren a Happy Thanksgiving, and crazy savings for many years to come.
I love US Mobile. very good service and I’ve never seen a pragmatic analysis like this one. congratulations