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If we buy a mobile phone,How much pay for it of percentage of our salary?

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  • Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

    My current phone is my 5th and never payed for them...I told my boss, that if he want's me to be reachable...

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    My boss needed my number once: he was picking me up at a rail station for a business trip to Dallas. He was most put out a month later when he found I'd changed the number the day I got back! :laugh: As I said to him: if you want me available out of hours, you can pay me an "on call" fee, and provide the mobile.

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      Fishing? or Phishing?

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      • K Keith Barrow

        3.1415927% That way it won't take up too big a slice of the pie.

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        Surely thats taking the whole pie??

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        • Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

          Why pay for a mobile phone at all?!

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          My brother never pays for them, he just has my old ones. He's up to a Nexus 4 now. I usually just buy handsets, and then get SIM only deals. I'm quite liking my OnePlus One still, so I'll keep that a little longer.

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            30% should fit the cause to get the latest technolgy :)

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            • A amagitech

              If we buy a mobile phone,How much pay for it of percentage of our salary?

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              Ask yourself better how much you want to spend monthly. These mobiles last about 3 to 5 years - so use you calculator. :rolleyes: For some Android phone you get no updates, or only for 18 months. Apple is more value stable, because they have better support and you can sell it for a good price after some years.

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                Surely thats taking the whole pie??

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                Nobody knows exactly how big the whole pie is.

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                  If we buy a mobile phone,How much pay for it of percentage of our salary?

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    That's a silly question - phones vary in price from $11[^] to $8,000,000[^] (though you'd have to be a total tool to buy anything on that list), you get offers and deals, contracts, etc. And nobody I know thinks in terms of "% salary" when making a purchase of anything (except possibly a house where it's relevant because of a mortgage. And add to that that it also depends how often you change the phone: should it be seen as "% total salary for all the years I'll have it"?

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                    Nish Nishant
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                    Well it's different in the 3rd world. There are often people who are considered middle class, making $300-ish a month. And a cell phone, a mid-level one, would be $200-ish. So you are talking 66% of their pre-tax monthly pay. So a phone purchase would be analogous to a car purchase in say the US.

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Because stealing them is illegal?

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                      He probably means there are mobile service plans where a smartphone is included without additional cost, but with a signed X-year/month contract.

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