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Good to see the network growing! Looking at US Cellular's coverage map ( https://www.uscellular.com/coverage-map/coverage-indicator.h... ), this news won't benefit the sf bay area, but help users in the northwest, northeast, and midwest.
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Can you expand on your experience? Is there just not enough coverage or is it something else that makes it mediocre? Where are you located? I was thinking of switching from Verizon (bay area) and would be interested to hear from someone who's already using it.
As someone from the bay area who has also had a mediocre experience, I can maybe answer: Speeds have been fine, but there are areas where it'll show full bars but provide no data (like in BART stations, my hunch is that those use femtocells that don't handle FI users properly). Additionally, occasionally it'll swap networks (I think, goes from LTE/HSPA/3G) and the 'swaps' have like 30 second switchover times. Then th…
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I am also using and loving Google Fi so far. No manipulative billing practices designed to obscure the true cost. Reasonable metered data prices. The only downside is having to use a Motorola phone. They seem to always break within 1.5 years of purchase.
I'm quite excited to try it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) i'm on T-Mobile, with a no contract $30/m Unlimited text/data plan (very few minutes) , and that's just really hard to beat. Note that this plan might not be available anymore.. not sure really, but i know i often get flack for being on this plan from tmo. It clearly isn't making them enough money, but my god, i love it.
Its good to see them expanding the networks, if only a little. I've been on Project Fi for ~6 months or so and its been a fairly mediocre experience so far, but it works well enough for the price point I suppose.
I am also using and loving Google Fi so far. No manipulative billing practices designed to obscure the true cost. Reasonable metered data prices. The only downside is having to use a Motorola phone. They seem to always break within 1.5 years of purchase.
Unless they offer LTE in Canada, this doesn't compare well to my T-Mobile plan, other than diverse networks. That's the one thing that definitely put me off trying it.
I haven't been to Canada with Project Fi, but I got LTE all over London, Madrid, Copenhagen, Berlin and Málaga with them. I'd think that Canada has similar infrastructure in place :)
Unless they offer LTE in Canada, this doesn't compare well to my T-Mobile plan, other than diverse networks. That's the one thing that definitely put me off trying it.
I wanna switch to project fi but I just can't get over how cheap tmobile's 5GB LTE for $30 is.
As far as phone expenses go, I think I'm still doing pretty well though.
This is cool and all, but I'm worried that Google will just pull the plug during one "spring cleaning" event. Plus T-Mobile's $100/4 lines/2 GB per line is just unbeatable right now... cheaper and more data.
Except you don't have worldwide roaming included in your plan, which you have to pay extra for.
That's a reason why I'm not changing from Fi. Also the fact that data I don't use is reimbursed.