Well Nebraska won't be a problem anymore. Moving to Texas. It's why I'm switching. Otherwise I would sticking with Sprint. I like being able to use 20 GB a month.
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I've been using Cricket for a couple years now and I'm very satisfied. A year or 2 ago, they were offering double data of their highest tier at no extra cost. So 20 gigs for $60 a month that I'm grandfathered into. They recently added tether for an extra $10 a month, so $70 ($65 after auto pay) for unlimited talk, texts, 20 gigs of data, and tether, I'm pretty satisfied. No taxes or extra fees.
Everyone is limited to 8mbps no matter the plan. Been using Cricket for a year, and besides international roaming I have no problems with it. Works well!
I think it's mostly 8mbps download. The nice thing with an iPhone on it is visual voicemail works just like on att. Straightalk doesn't have access to that but they don't throttle. I didn't realize that they don't have roaming off of AT&T. No wonder I've had reception cut out in a few areas I work in from time to time. Usually it's never a problem because of landline phones in the building. I guess you get the discounted price for a reason
It's pretty close to 8 if a good signal. I haven't had a problem streaming really.
the one thing i noticed about cricket is that they will let you use the "T-Mobile Verizon Sprint" iPhone 6s/6s+ a1687/a1688 models, where as real AT&T refuses to ship you a sim card because you don't have the AT&T model.
in other words, my iPhone fails at&t's imei checker. but using cricket's imei checker , it passes. cricket says they have a universal sim card.
in other words, my iPhone fails at&t's imei checker. but using cricket's imei checker , it passes. cricket says they have a universal sim card.
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Been using Cricket since the AIO days and couldn't be happier. Travel up and down the northern east coast and have had no problems. Have three different phones in the family using Cricket and love the savings as well as the service. Had Verizon for years and paid a fortune for non-existant customer service on top of much higher monthly fees even with a contract. The deal breaker for me with Verizon is their phoney rates! They'll claim 70 bucks a month then add another 12-15 bucks a month is phony fees they won't even mention before you sign on the dotted line.
I've also been with Cricket since they were AIO. The service works fine. In my opinion, 8Mb/s is fine especially for mobile usage. $55/month for 20GB of data is a great value.
Most of those fees are fees that you pay to the Gov and Verizon has no control over those
Not true! some fees are taxes verizon pays and just passes them on to their customers and others are just plain made up fees verizon uses to pad profits and lower advertised monthly fees. In either case Verizon knows full well what your actual bill is before you enter into the contract but getting that information is difficult even if you ask! Very deceptive and not done by Cricket. My monthly fee is advertised at 35.00 a month and that's exactly what I'm charged. If Cricket can do it so can the rest of the industry if they wanted to. By the way that's 35.00 at month no contract. To Verizon I say, GOOD RIDDANCE!!!
the phones have to be on there list of phones that can tether if they are not on the list then they can't work
I get around this by using RingTo as my "American" telephone number when abroad. As long as I have an internet connection (other SIM with data or WiFi) I can make/receive calls/SMS/MMS with my RingTo number.
I just let those that "need to know" know to call/text me on my "secondary" number and that's it.
If you were going to pay $45, you could just use Straight Talk. They also use AT&T (if you order an AT&T SIM card) but you get unlimited talk/text, 5GB of full speed data, and unlimited throttled data after that.