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Charge, a phone company with features for nerds

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Re: Charge, a phone company with features for nerds

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Post by JeremyNT »

swrobel wrote: post #70

Oh cool, so you're like Google Fi but 30% more expensive!

Google Fi requires unlimited voice/SMS at $20/month, which many people likely do not care about. To maintain data only, Charge only charges $3 a month.

A more direct competitor in the "low monthly fee for light usage" MVNO space is RingPlus, which seems to be cheaper than Charge.

There seems to be a different MVNO optimized for virtually every usage pattern.

Re: Charge, a phone company with features for nerds

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Post by Macacity »

Vexs wrote: post #183
nowprovision wrote: post #113

Ha, love it that someone went out and registered http://your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com/

That's great- earlier it led nowhere, now it leads to rickroll. So now there's an actual cellular company rickrolling people.

no, the site on the charge website has the tld .io

Re: Charge, a phone company with features for nerds

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Post by apokusin »

amelius wrote: post #154

> Charge, a phone company with features for nerds Looking at this Venn diagram [1], it appears the company tagline is saying something negative about their customers. Perhaps better to change that into "for geeks". [1] https://c8.staticflickr.com/5/4117/4889135495_e91b886fcd_b.j...

Using a Venn diagram to justify a loosely defined grammatical choice is quite possibly the nerdiest of approaches.

pushes up glasses

Re: Charge, a phone company with features for nerds

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Post by advertising »

vinay427 wrote: post #127
advertising wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've enjoyed that for awhile now as well with T-Mobile. Except being in Japan more frequently as of late, the 2g speeds for free are great for essentials (messaging, maps, email) but damn I'd love a better package for LTE speeds that isn't like $50 for 200mb or whatever it is. Maybe I just need to do more research.

I was looking up the T-Mobile international roaming high-speed upgrade pricing for my own use so I might as well post it here: Single-day pass: $15 for 100MB 7 day-pass: $25 for 200MB 14-day pass: $50 for 500MB

I blow through that 500MB in 2 - 3 days is the problem.

A better, but not very cheap solution is to just rent a wifi hotspot for around $8 - $10 / day if you're on a short trip. Get 1 gig / day as well.

I'm just going to get a japanese plan once I live here.

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