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"Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me."

I basically travel non-stop. And wherever I land, I receive a message.

"Welcome to India we got you covered"

"Welcome to Russia we got you covered"

"Welcome to China we got you covered"

"Welcome to France we got you covered"

"Welcome to Uganda we got you covered"

I can live with 10 US$/GB

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It's really amazing. Only countries I've ever visited without Fi support were Iran and Ethiopia. Even in Iraq and Myanmar, Fi worked great. Your traffic also automatically goes through Fi's VPN, which unlike ExpressVPN and most other big commercial ones, has never in my experience been blocked by China.

Yes, Ethiopia does not work. It is bad because I am often in Ethiopia. Never been to Iran but want to.

Won't work in Cuba or North Korea too I am sure.

Only exception that I didn't expect was Vietnam. No clue why Vietnam over say, Thailand.

I got a new phone less than a month ago, and this was a reason I got an android one phone. I can just use my phone (and unrelated, Uber) when I go to India (or anywhere else so far).

How are cell coverage and data speeds on Fi internationally? I have not traveled out of the country since this has been my carrier.

Great in my experience (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, UK, Canada, Thailand, South Korea). I found it to always be fast with no obvious throttling, and coverage is often better overseas than at home.

I had few problems in Argentina and Uruguay (only countries I've been to since I got it, but been to several times). In the norhern part of Argentina (Iguazu) I had poor coverage where my girlfriend had (Argentinian service provider) great coverage. I think Fi was trying to decide if I was in Brazil or Argentina and that was messing me up. In Buenos Aires (where I spent most of my time), reception was good except for around some buildings (assuming line-of-sight issues). In Uruguay I never had any problems.

The only other issues were a lag between landing and service beginning. Took over half an hour on one trip, and over an hour on another. But this year I didn't have that lag, took maybe 5 minutes from when I turned on the phone after landing to it working.

Service speed was always good.

NB: I have a Nexus 5X. Some of the reception issues may have just been reception issues with that device compared to others, I don't know.

They are native speeds, or at least so fast that they might as well have been. I was seeing > 60mbit in Germany.

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