Usage taxes on cricket?

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Hiyas Guys/gals-

Well, t-mobile has kinda been ticking me off lately, and I've been wanting to upgrade my phone. And since t-mo isn't on my "great" list right now, decided that I would give cricket a try. Since I dont wanna pay t-mo any more of my hard earned cash for internet. But I dont wanna lose my (partially) unlimited calling (I'll say this for them, they did RIGHT with the Fave5 plans!).
I've got a Sprint Touch Pro on the way (Gets here monday!!) that I'm gonna flash over and try out the Cricket network.

Anyway, I was reading some of the reviews sites on cricket, and one of the posts mentioned that "after taxes, my plan comes up to around 60 bucks a month".
So yeah, that kinda gets me to wondering. Does Cricket have to charge usage taxes? Is that just on talk time, or for internet use too?

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Its the same fee's you pay at any provider. Fcc, state, city, 911 the list goes on. You just notice it more because you are not trying to figure out how you went over your min.
 
Thanks for the info guys. Very much appreciated.
In some of their adverts cricket refers to themselves as prepaid. And I remeraber from old virgin mobile days that I didnt have to worry about the taxes, so it definitely had me curious.
Kinda suspected that I was gonna be paying taxes on it tho. Thanks for the confirmation. *thurabs up*
 
Sorry to double post, but I guess that if anybody doing a search for this information might find this pertinent. I did get signed up today, and surprisingly enough, I got the taxes charged to me in advance, as well as prepaying the first monthly due.
 
$7-$10 depending on the plan does seem steep depending on the plan (and area) I suppose. My 1 liner on AT&T was $65/mo and after taxes was $71-$72.
 
taxes on cell phones vary by area even within one state it will change.
what is key is to distinguish between taxes and fees
taxes are charges levied against your account, just like sales tax on a purchase, or tax on gasoline, however this is not at sales tax rate it is a utility tax
fees are generally charged by the provider to recover taxes levied against them byt the government. e.g. the govenment charges an e911 fee to every provider, and the provider passes that fee as a line item on customers' bills. the customer is not required by the government to pay it, but the provider (and this is usually in the terms) collects it directly from the customer as a "fee" instead of paying it out of their own pockets.
these "fees" vary from provider to provider, how much they want to collect from the customer as a billed line item, what programs and funRAB they pay into, etc... all determine how much the extra "fees" are, but it comes down to actually being set by the provider and not by any regulatory body or government. but that is where the money enRAB up going...
cricket's current regulatory recover fee is fixed at $1.40 per line, but again as posted above there are no taxes or fees levied against broadband service as it is prohibited by law.
 
I signed up for the $45 plan yesterday. + .55 for paper bill fee, +45.00 for usage, 1.40 for regulatory recovery, Taxes 6.47
grand total- $52.35 a month.

all said, about 5 bucks less than my t-mobile bill for the 300 fave5 plan, with 400 texts and equipment coverage. BUT.... that plan didnt include internet, and would have been an extra 25 bucks to include it.
 
California seems to have lower taxes when it comes to cell phone plans then. I got my grandmother a basic $25 Cricket plan, and it comes out to a bit over $27 total. On the other hand, my family on T-Mobile (4 lines) comes out to $8 in taxes/fees for all lines corabined, so it's pretty similar.
 
your math is off... but here's some further example: my t-mobile bill:

That is my plan and features
this is the actual taxes levied against my account by uncle sam this is the part that t-mobile is charging me extra to recover what they have to pay to uncle sam there's the legal
out of $2.33, $1.57 is actually t-mobile passing costs down to me (why isn't this built into the plan???) and only $0.76 is actually taxes that i am required to pay by the government. all in all, $2.33 is not enough for me to complain tho...
actually this is an older bill but more useful to illustrae my point. the newer format is slightly more confusing.
 
so what if one where to put the billing address as an address in NE so they will have no taxes but yet have an active area code of a different state? would cricket charge tax on that account or not?
 
cricket does not offer detailed billing.

you could theoretically put your address to alaska and get the lowest taxes, i don't think they would say anything, although your address is supposed to be inside a (or your i'm not sure which) cricket market.
they may start checking this now that there is PEC so metro market customers aren't subscribed to cricket and vise-versa.
 
Paper bill waste of money imo, just go with text message remainder and pay the bill online is free.
Here in Houston, is around $8-$9 on tax. People who are on the $45 plan usually pay $53 and some change etc
 
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