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Mint mobile has been 100% good to me over the years, save for the rare surprising lack of network (I found a spot in the middle of a city that I get 0 coverage shockingly).

I'd recommend them to everyone, but they've been sold to T-Mobile and I'm skeptical it won't be broken soon enough.

But for $180 a year I was getting 5GB data, unlimited voice+text. I also spent about $20 a year on roaming extras when I'd go to Canada for a couple weeks.

GoogleFi was probably my best experience when on android, but they didn't support iOS and their fee was notably higher than mint too. ($65 a month iirc?). GoogleFi was unlimited, better coverage, unlimited usage in Canada (my main roaming on home sim card) , and includes a bunch of extras like storage, youtube etc.

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The 15 GB plan is a great value at $240/year.

And can use as much of it for tethering as you want. Do the big carriers still limit that? I remember it used to be an add-on.

Just going to echo that I've JUST switched to Mint from T-Mobile. Once they removed the Apple pay discount, I realized I was paying $75/mo when I'm mostly on Wifi at home anyway. I also didn't realize that T-Mobile bought Mint so hopefully I won't have to shop around again.

FWIW I paid $20/mo for 15gb for 1 year with Mint. Over 2/3rds less than TMobile (While using the same network).

If mint ends up not working out, Verizon prepaid has the same 15gb deal but for $35/mo with auto pay.

So far I have not noticed any difference when switching from T Mobile to Mint besides having to reconfigure IMessage due to the new eSim. EZ Mode.

Google FI is a bit more expensive since their QCI level is the same as T-Mobile's first-party premium plans, so theoretically you won't be slowed down if the T-Mobile tower handling your data is overloaded, while T-Mobile "Essentials" and other MVNOs using T-Mobile will be slowed down. https://fixverizon.com/2023/01/12/qci-prioritization-for-car...

G fi used to charge you for data use, I thought if you used a few gig a month then it was more than tmobile, are you using much data?

there used to be a $10/GB overage fee on some plans. That would occasionally bump me into "cheaper on other carriers" range.

They have different plans. Flexible is 20$/month + 10$/gb and unlimited for 50$/month. Unlimited with some extra for 65$/month.

But then you're using / paying google. I'd rather gouge my eyeballs out.

I was recommended Mint but had a completely disastrous experience just trying to get service with them. They could not get my phone number moved over from Verizon even though I was unlocked and had the port out PIN.

Ended up going with Ting and it's been fine. Service is trash sometimes/doesn't work at all occasionally but I also don't want to live a life where I need my phone 24/7 so the dirt cheap pricing is attractive enough for me to stay.

Tip, get a VOIP number like Google Voice and forward your carrier number. Never have to worry about porting or losing your number again.

I believe a lot of online services refuse to do phone verification with VOIP so there's a cost to going this route. I wouldn't be surprised if they start to block prepaid phones soon as well, they already do for some online game registrations. I hope I'm wrong though, I exclusively use prepaid phone cards to avoid these billing scams.

Has Ting been OK lately? I switched to Mint due to degradation in customer service.

I have had the exact opposite experience. googlefi was terrible coverage and more expensive than t-mobile. I switched from Google fi to Verizon, 2 years of Verizon was HORRIBLE, the. I switched to att for 2 years, then I just switched to t-mobile this spring and it's been sunshine and roses. costs me less each month, unlimited everything, and the best coverage of any cell carrier to date.

I am also a happy long-term mint customer. I hope T-Mobile treats us well

GoogleFi supports iOS. I'm using it on my device right now.

Nice! When i tried late 2021 they didnt seem to handle it (or not well).

You've made multiple comments on this post about how great mint mobile is.

Why?

Perhaps they like mint and it’s relevant because mint doesn’t do any extra fees to use the most common form of payment.

The person you're replying to made 2 comments on this post, and only one of them mentioned Mint Mobile. Try Ctrl+F to search for their username.

Edit you're correct, I fixed the posts :)

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