Any clue if this affects prepaid customers as well?
I really have to stay on my toes with these carriers, my bill always creeps up over the years.
I really have to stay on my toes with these carriers, my bill always creeps up over the years.
I found some code online [0] that runs every hour and purchases an additional GB if my remaining amount falls below a threshold. It’s been working great for us.
We dropped our bill for 2 lines from ~$100/mo to $21/mo.
[0] https://github.com/dbrand666/usmobile-lifeguard/tree/main
if you don't feel like your service is slow during the times you use your wireless, then there's no harm in using MVNOs.
To be clear, the minimum increment one can purchase is 1 GB.
We're in a bit of a weird situation where we aren't in the US the majority of the time, so most months we don't use any data off our US plan.
If we do end up in the US then that bit of code keeps buying us more data 1GB at a time as needed.
Another cool thing is that our USMobile eSIM uses the 4G data from our local eSIM so that we can still make/receive calls/SMS on our US line from anywhere. It treats the local 4G like WiFi Calling. Pretty dope.
If feels like a forceful marketing push, to trick customers into constantly escalating their idea of "normal usage" until they're streaming video 24/7.