Hacker News Reader

Google Fi is a MVNO just like Mint. I'm curious why Fi gets better reliability when Mint doesn't ?

To add to the other response, the r/NoContract community maintains a list of network prioritization policies: https://old.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/oaophe/data_pri...

Google pays for post paid priority on TMO.

Also, does them having US Cellular towers also have something to do with it?

US cellular has been dropped from Fi, except when roaming, supposedly: https://9to5google.com/2023/02/28/google-fi-us-cellular/