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For those who don't want to read the FAQ or find the video incredibly unhelpful [1]: a. It only supports the Nexus 6 out of the gate. b. It automatically switches you to the "fastest" network available. Partners out of the gate are Sprint and T-mobile. Sounds like it prefers Wifi, then 4G LTE, and then degrades down to 3G or 2G. c. Pricing is $20 for unlimited talk (domestic) and text (domestic and international) and…
Without unlimited data, this is useless to me. If T-Mobile and Sprint can pull off unlimited data plans, then so should Google ( especially if Google Fi uses - you guessed it - both Sprint and T-Mobile as its partner carriers). The least they can do is offer a "you get so-and-so gigabytes of 4G data before we throttle you down to 2G, and we won't charge you anything extra" like what T-Mobile does for its non-unlimite…
As people use more and more data, it just won't make economic sense to offer your customers unlimited data.
If Google had offered unlimited data, and then later canceled it, everyone would be bitching about them killing the competition, anti-competitive behavior, etc.
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This plan actually makes no sense. Overage charges are the same rate ($10 / GB), so why am I buying a "plan" at all? Why don't they just charge $10 * x gigs / month instead of all this buying / refunding business?
They invest the float. edit: Removed reference to cash conversion cycle because it doesn't really have anything to do with that.
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The typical MVNO model would be for Google to handle all the support. I agree that end-user support does not seem to be one of Google's strengths.
Maybe that's okay -- end-user support isn't exactly one of the cellular industry's strengths either :P
I can't justify switching and needing to buy a $650 phone.
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This plan actually makes no sense. Overage charges are the same rate ($10 / GB), so why am I buying a "plan" at all? Why don't they just charge $10 * x gigs / month instead of all this buying / refunding business?
It lets you impose a upper limit of how much you want to spend (I think)
> Project Fi will first alert you if you're getting close to
> your data budget. If you go over, you'll still get full-speed
> data and data is charged at the same $10 per GB rate. For
> example, if you go over your data budget by 350MB, $3.50 will
> be added to your next bill.
"We refund the data you don't use" is basically a way of saying "you pay by the megabyte for the data you do use" -- which is actually really great, I've been frustrated that everyone's settled on "all-you-can-eat" data as the standard, it doesn't align incentives well at all. And they really are refunding it: if you use 1.2GB per month, it doesn't matter whether you sign up for 2, 5, or 10GB, your bill comes out exa…
http://www.straighttalk.com/wps/portal/home/shop/serviceplan... has a 3GB plan for a year at $41.25 per month. Google's pricing for the same amount is $50 per month. So the question is whether all the new features (wifi calling, international roaming, pay-for-usage) justify the extra $9, plus the cost of a new phone for those without a Nexus 6. (Wifi calling should probably be left out of that list, since it's most l…
For those who don't want to read the FAQ or find the video incredibly unhelpful [1]: a. It only supports the Nexus 6 out of the gate. b. It automatically switches you to the "fastest" network available. Partners out of the gate are Sprint and T-mobile. Sounds like it prefers Wifi, then 4G LTE, and then degrades down to 3G or 2G. c. Pricing is $20 for unlimited talk (domestic) and text (domestic and international) and…
- It is unlimited talk (domestic) and unlimited text (domestic and international). International talk costs extra.
What was said in your post was accurate, but the way it was worded could confuse people into believing that it is unlimited international talk.
The pricing is a little more nuanced than you said.
- It is $20 (talk/text) and then $10 per gig of data. However they refund you all unused data at the end of the month. So if you buy 1 gig of data for $10 and only use 0.5 gig, they credit back $5.
Which is an important distinction as that is their USP: cost savings by refunding unused data.