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Huh, I did not know until just now that US Cellular owned their own network. I could've sworn that Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint were the only four network owners in America and US Cellular was an MVNO. Guess that says something about either the quality of their network or the quality of their marketing.
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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.
It's 100 minutes a month if I'm not mistaken. Can't say for sure if the plan still exists, but it's almost impossible to find any advertising regarding it. You have to specifically ask for it like those quesadillas at Chipotle. I was happy with it for a couple years but switched to google Fi when I got my Nexus 6P and I'm perfectly happy with it.
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> 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.
Worldwide roaming is included in all of T-Mobile's postpaid plans if I'm not mistaken.
Oh, US Cellular... Somehow I can be near line-of-sight to one of their towers, and barely get two bars of service. At least its cheap, although I am still grandfathered into my parents' family plan for around $20/month. I think an equivalent individual plan from ATT or Verizon in this area would run over $100, which would be ridiculous for the 3-4 phone calls a month I make.
This is great news, as we have quite a bit of coverage by them here (Midwest). I feel like I see a lot of people mention issues with Fi on the web, I must be one of the lucky few that have not only had no issues, but stellar performance all around.
Yes, they have the best rural coverage in the Midwest (Verizon, thanks to AllTel, is a close 2nd.)
Actually, I recently took advantage of the Fi discount on a Nexus 5x ($250 @ 32 GB), but after some days dinking with it on Fi, I swapped in my Verizon SIM as planned, to have Verizon service with Nexus quality/timely system updates. (Needed an additional reboot for LTE to kick in, but since then -- as reported in numerous places -- it has worked just fine.)
But, I'm increasingly unhappy with Verizon Wireless.
Next up would be to see whether Google Fi's adverstised real/actual/person support is for real and helpful, and to ask them whether, hey, after all, I'd like to port my Verizon number to a Fi SIM / service and use that instead of the Fi SIM that's currently idle.
(I wanted to try it before committing.)
The other is to see whether, now that I'm out from under my 2 year phone "contract" with Verizon, I can coerce better pricing/capacity out of them.
In any event, I will NEVER again use a phone that is dependent upon Verizon for updates. So, that means Apple, or my unofficial/"not supported" Nexus, or...
P.S. If anyone from Google happens by, "pinch to zoom out" on the Nexus 5x is horrible -- the camera app dies about 50% of the time when I use this feature on it. PLEASE for the love of deity fix this! (Your error reporting systems should have about a bazillion and a half incident reports from one particular device ID. Stock Nexus 5x with only a few big-name apps installed.)
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.
Where can I get more info on this t mobile plan?
If you're going to switch - if you don't mind, email me at j(at)fej(punto)io so I can send you my referral information. Disclosure: I would make $80 in T-Mobile stock, and currently have a share of the company. Of course, I don't want to pressure you at all, and even if you switch you don't have to credit me.
This is their new referral program which you might have heard about recently.
I must say Project FI has worked out really nice for me. I'm usually in Wifi range, so my data usage is very low. Works out to around $27 each month. And the service is really good. BUT, I live in the constant fear of Google shutting down the service. In fact I'm slowly finding myself skeptical of adopting new Google products because I'm worried it will go away.
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.
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That's $10+/mo of pure BS for a single line. Would love to hear from Google Fi users if they also do this, if not I'll probably switch.
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Yes, they have the best rural coverage in the Midwest (Verizon, thanks to AllTel, is a close 2nd.)
If this extends in/through northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan, I may indeed switch to Fi. Actually, I recently took advantage of the Fi discount on a Nexus 5x ($250 @ 32 GB), but after some days dinking with it on Fi, I swapped in my Verizon SIM as planned, to have Verizon service with Nexus quality/timely system updates. (Needed an additional reboot for LTE to kick in, but since then -- as r…
I'm a google fi customer and requested support. For me, the support was fantastic. They were very helpful and did their best to make sure everything was handled. Sample size of 4-8 requests, though, so YMMV.
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> 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.
Worldwide roaming is included in all of T-Mobile's postpaid plans if I'm not mistaken.