I have it too. Some dropped calls occasionally. Sometimes slow. But it is only $25.
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iPhone 13 Pro How much are you paying for cell/carrier service?
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Visible sucked where I lived. The ping times were so high that the page would timeout before I could login and couldn’t even have a page load when I’m strolling in the mall.
But I heard with the new plans they’re using VZW servers now instead of their cloud servers that improved their pings quite a bit.
Google Fi, I pay about $25 per month because work provides me a SIM to use for data.
I would not recommend it, but it is super cheap and that’s why I haven’t changed.
Tethering, but no 5G. $10 per gigabyte billed down to the penny. If you use no data, and are ok with Google managing your phone number, it’s not bad.
I would not recommend it, but it is super cheap and that’s why I haven’t changed.
Tethering, but no 5G. $10 per gigabyte billed down to the penny. If you use no data, and are ok with Google managing your phone number, it’s not bad.
Major caveat being that you have to deal with AT&T. From my personal experience I consider that a huge negative.
Check out Red Pocket. Their annual plan works out to $15 per month for 3gb, $22.50 per month for 10gb, $30 per month for 25gb, and $37.50 per month for 100gb.
$142.16 for 2 lines AT&T Ulimited Elite… no throttling until 100 GB, 30 GB hotspot per device, HBO Max included. My wife and I visit her parents house a lot and they live out in the middle of nowhere with no home internet, plus I sometimes work from there, so we end up needing a lot of data and hotspot. My wife usually uses between 20-30 GB per month and I use 10-15 GB, so a lot of the cheaper plans that have a limited amount of data or get throttled after a certain amount wouldn’t work well for us.
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I used them for about eight years until joining a Family Cricket plan a couple years ago. I had some minor issues here and there but you really can’t beat the price for Red pocket!
At the same time, I was often if not always keeping track of used data, it‘s liberating to get a break from that now after so long.
I have ATT Unlimited Plus prepaid, $50 a month after autopay, now renamed Unlimited Max? First 22GB of data is not deprioritized - I used to have Verizon prepaid and it was garbage as a comparison.
Prepaid protip - if you fill your balance up with prepaid cards, often discounted at Target for example, you do not incur taxes. My $50 plan is $50, and really more like $42-45 depending on the ATT prepaid card discounts I can get.
By my rough math, as an example, even with my 11 Pro Max trade in to Apple being $370 and a contract trade in would be ~$1000, I still save ~$1000 over 36 months using prepaid and buying outright.
Prepaid protip - if you fill your balance up with prepaid cards, often discounted at Target for example, you do not incur taxes. My $50 plan is $50, and really more like $42-45 depending on the ATT prepaid card discounts I can get.
By my rough math, as an example, even with my 11 Pro Max trade in to Apple being $370 and a contract trade in would be ~$1000, I still save ~$1000 over 36 months using prepaid and buying outright.
ATT Prepaid Walmart plan $45 for unlimited 5G data and call/texts. I was previously on ATT Post paid with 6GB plan paying $57 after taxes and discount.
Verizon Prepaid
$64.80 /m for 2 lines. That's total. The plan is $30 /line.
6Gb data per line
I got this plan probably a little over 2 years ago. They were offering their 3Gb data plans with double the data at that point. Now they have 5Gb for about $25 /month. I never use all my data.
I used to be with AT&T and Sprint but after those experiences, I wanted better coverage for the cheapest price. Verizon gives me exactly what I need.
$64.80 /m for 2 lines. That's total. The plan is $30 /line.
6Gb data per line
I got this plan probably a little over 2 years ago. They were offering their 3Gb data plans with double the data at that point. Now they have 5Gb for about $25 /month. I never use all my data.
I used to be with AT&T and Sprint but after those experiences, I wanted better coverage for the cheapest price. Verizon gives me exactly what I need.
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I switched from Verizon to visible on the new plus $45 plan and $5 for the Apple Watch. Visible has been awesome.
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Verizon Prepaid (15GB data) $35 month (that's with the auto pay and loyalty discounts).