Straighttalk, Net10 or SIMPLE Mobile?

[bohbot16]

FYI on ST and NET10, they both use T- Mobile and AT&T towers and have different color sim cards to represent the different carrier. I am pretty sure if you have either ST or NET10 the color of the sim card is the same, for example blue sim cards represents AT&T and pink is T-Mobile.

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I have used unlockit.co.nz for their profile and under NET10 they have several different profiles such as NET10 (iphone), NET10 (t-mobile), NET10 (tfdata). Which is which?

Thanks

They supply APN settings if you go to http://net10sim.com from your phone. The settings are different if you have an AT&T SIM vs a T-Mobile SIM.

 

[Satnam1989]

Did ST happen to throttle your Internet by any chance? They throttled me horrible. I'm now on net10 (which is owned by the same tracfone company, but explicitly put a data cap at 1.5GB for AT&T SIM).

Not that I noticed, the speeds were what I expected 2-6Mbps at all times. My month ended today and now I am recharged again for another month.

 

[jackwills]

I thought Net10 and Straight Talk were the same company underneath it all when you peel back the layers.

Straight Talk is just available now at Walmart, and Net10 is widely available.

T-mobile's $30 plan is easily the best deal, but what I realized is that
voice minutes still matter, at least enough such that when you only have 100, it's usually not enough. Configuring Vonage or a free voip app is not only a hassle, which I could live with, but the quality is deal-breaker bad. It's a combo of "what" "what" "what did you say" or "I can't hear you". It's unprofessional to say the least. Only would Skype has acceptable voice quality, consistently.
I also realized that I hate wondering if I've gone over my 100 minutes for the month, and if I have, knowing that I"m paying 10 cents per minute.

What city you are in? U use ST t-mobile or AT&T?
I also was in a 3G refarmed city and T-mobile was completely inconsistent. I'd still get Edge right in the city center, and hopped back and forth alot. I've been all around and in no way, shape, or form for an iPHone is the 3G refarmed such that you'd get what they claim--3G everywhere in refarmed cities. It's very spotty.

And of course Edge is now officially unusable. You can check email, but there are sites that just plain won't load. I used to not think this, but I was on T-mo for 5 months and many mobile sites were just timing out. You'd do certain actions (check email, download an attachment, look up a google map address) well before you'd need the actual info (akin to booting up your windows computer and then going to brush your teeth)...after all that I just realized, this is just not worth it. Really, it isn't, esp for the few months that I've gone over 100 min.

Now if I had an Android phone or one that had T-mobile's native bands the $30 plan may be a diff story. But I'm still not ready for Android since I think any of the good phones don't have pure Android (a must after I made a mistake since in no other way are you going to get a solid upgrade, ever), and they flagships are all way too big to be one-handed.

So off to Straight Talk for a month, and it's been solid. Speeds have been way faster and I can talk and text for however long I want. I'd say that it's worth it.

What city are you in? U use ST tmobile or at&t?

 

[chestvrg]

Not that I noticed, the speeds were what I expected 2-6Mbps at all times. My month ended today and now I am recharged again for another month.

Well ST throttled my data to such low speeds that were perhaps slower then dial-up speeds. I got fed up and started switching from one company to another (all prepaid), I tried tmobile prepaid as well as h20 and I'm now trying Net10 (which is practically the same company that owns ST), but at least net10 are clear about their 1.5GB data cap on at&t SIM, and w/o throttle.

 

[jackwills]

Well ST throttled my data to such low speeds that were perhaps slower then dial-up speeds. I got fed up and started switching from one company to another (all prepaid), I tried tmobile prepaid as well as h20 and I'm now trying Net10 (which is practically the same company that owns ST), but at least net10 are clear about their 1.5GB data cap on at&t SIM, and w/o throttle.

after overing the 1.5 GB, NET10 will slow down the internet speed or totally cut it off?

 

[chestvrg]

I believe they might cut it off completely.

 

[iPhoneP33]

I believe they might cut it off completely.

What were some of the issues that you were having while on TMobile?

 

[chestvrg]

What were some of the issues that you were having while on TMobile?

Reception was very poor inside my house and in some placed I would loose 3G signal and be at times for long times on Edge speeds. What others refer to here as building penetration poor. I only wish a tmobile cellular tower was near my house & then I would keep tmobile. Other then that speeds were very very fast.