13 years here, what MVNO did you pick? I'm looking at visible and US cellular.
Visible is great, but struggles with moving service between phones. I was told it would take at least a week to move from iPhone to iPhone (both eSIM!).
In my experience, US Mobile (not to be confused with US Cellular) is every bit as good as Visible, but has better customer support.
https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/t-mobile-to-acquire-m...
Mint uses the T-Mobile network but is one tier below T-mobile subscribers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/oaophe/data_pri...
Lower QCI values are better.
> QCI 6 is applied to all of T-Mobile's postpaid and prepaid plans (except for Essentials) and Google Fi which also has QCI 6 as well. This means if you want the absolute best from T-Mobile, you want to get a plan directly from them. Even their cheap $10 prepaid 1GB Connect plan has priority data.
QCI 7 is applied to T-Mobile’s Essentials plan as well as all MVNOs (besides Google Fi) such as Mint, Metro By T-Mobile, US Mobile GSM LTE, and Tello.
I'm not trying to serve websites with my phone, I'm merely communicating.
And I have run out of energy for fighting an increasingly hostile service provider to bring my $130 bill (which used to be less than half that) back down to earth when it could be $15.
AT&T and Verizon had really sweet deals at the beggining of the year to pull alway some of TMO's customers but now that TMO raised their prices, ATT and VZW also unsweetened their plans.
TL;DR - T-Mobile grandfathers but you'll have to call T-Force every time to fight for it. AT&T & Verizon don't hassle their customers.
It’s better than promising free for life and then pulling the plug altogether on the service.
As a Verizon customer, we will have to agree to disagree on this.