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I recently went to the US for a few weeks. My Nexus 4 worked just fine with a US SIM from T-Mobile. $70 for a month for voice and data was worth it, and everything worked quite nicely. Big +1 for unlocked products!

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I pay $30/month in the US for a t-mobile month-to-month sim with 5gb data (soft cap), unlimited texts and 100 minutes on my nexus 4

Do you have a contract? That maybe why price you pay is cheaper. Seems like parent was only in US for a short period of time, so he probably didn't wanted to sign a, say 12 months, contract.

I'm on the same plan. No contract.

It's a prepaid plan with T-Mobile. No contract. Every Nexus 4 owner loves to talk about it. Go look at the Nexus 4 subreddit, it's a circle jerk of people who are "beating the system" by using a low-end phone on a sub-par carrier and getting "unlimited data".

Nice troll. You can get the same plan with any GSM phone.

T-Mobile is about the same as Sprint and AT&T, and all are sub-par to Verizon. But what's nice about T-Mobile is that you get unlimited data, whereas with Verizon, you'd better cash in your fleet of 777s to afford your bill.

Meanwhile everyone else are "losers" using overpowered phones on extortionate carriers and forced into paying for stuff they don't need.

Sheesh.

You have to look for it harder on the T-Mobile site for the $30 100 Minutes / "Unlimited Data" monthly pay-as-you-go.

http://consumerist.com/2013/06/07/t-mobile-has-a-30-unlimite...

I was just looking at this, trying to figure out how to get it on their site and came up empty-handed. Even Walmart.com makes it easier:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mobile-SIM-Kit/24099996

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Tmobile-30-Wireless-Airtime-Card/1...

And +1 for non-contract-friendly carriers like T-Mobile. Anytime someone bitches about their phone contract (here in US), I ask if they're willing to switch to TMO like I did.

Some have good reasons why (mainly coverage, tho TMO is getting better), others are forced to question their contract policy.

Right now I'm paying monthly at TMO what I paid on Verizon+AT&T for me and my wife - except I now get 3 other smartphones on the plan for the same price, all with their own 500M data pool.

Once the new phones are paid off (i.e. equipment loan), I'll be paying just a bit over what I did for just one of my lines for all five lines I'm paying today. And no other carrier in the US has HD Voice.

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