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Project Fi Is Now Google Fi

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Re: Project Fi Is Now Google Fi

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It is a niche price. More expensive for high data users, but less expensive for low data users. Flexibility is really king here, if 9 months of the year you use As to "why is the US/Canada so expensive?" Urban areas subsidies rural cellular. The US is hugely populated on the East and West coasts and a cellphone network that only targeted those population centers would be as cheap or even cheaper than Europe. But most…

I believe it's also capped at $100 – after that you get unlimited data, but it's rate limited.

Once you hit 6gb, you stop paying till you hit 15gb. After that, you're rate limited, or you can call up Fi support and have them put you at full speed and charge the usual $10/gb

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#152

Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me. For comparison, I have 20GB + unlimited call/texts for 10e/month, with optional 2e/GB recharges, and that's not even the cheapest available offer

"Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me." I basically travel non-stop. And wherever I land, I receive a message. "Welcome to India we got you covered" "Welcome to Russia we got you covered" "Welcome to China we got you covered" "Welcome to France we got you covered" "Welcome to Uganda we got you covered" I can live with 10 US$/GB

I got a new phone less than a month ago, and this was a reason I got an android one phone. I can just use my phone (and unrelated, Uber) when I go to India (or anywhere else so far).

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I believe it's also capped at $100 – after that you get unlimited data, but it's rate limited.

Capped at $60 for data.

Ah yeah, looks like they rolled out some new plans with the change up, or I didn't look at all the options when I last looked.

Re: Project Fi Is Now Google Fi

#155

Not even in my wildest dream I have imagine that, India could have cheaper and faster internet than most of other countries. Now for 2 USD/month I'm using 3GB data per day at 4G speed.

How are you using 3GB a day?

I've used more than 300GB in a day on my home internet connection, it doesn't seem outrageous to me that someone could use 1/100th of that on a mobile connection per day.

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#156

In Spain I pay 19€ for unlimited calls (no SMS included), and 23GB of data and for 2€ more I can add another person to share my data plan.

Yeah I just looked at the prices and was shocked at how expensive they are!

I am in [redacted] and my 50GB mobile data (unlimited calls and texts) is part of my €55/month home internet package (which includes 1Gbit fiber internet, land line and a TV box + package not that I care for that).

America has crazy expensive prices for mobile plans!

Re: Project Fi Is Now Google Fi

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Looks like it has international support for roaming at the same price though, I wonder if we (Canadians) could just use it anyways...

They will eventually cut you off for being mostly-roaming.

Are you sure about that? It's been almost a year since I got my mom set up with Fi in France, no issues yet.

Re: Project Fi Is Now Google Fi

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Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me. For comparison, I have 20GB + unlimited call/texts for 10e/month, with optional 2e/GB recharges, and that's not even the cheapest available offer

"Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me." I basically travel non-stop. And wherever I land, I receive a message. "Welcome to India we got you covered" "Welcome to Russia we got you covered" "Welcome to China we got you covered" "Welcome to France we got you covered" "Welcome to Uganda we got you covered" I can live with 10 US$/GB

How are cell coverage and data speeds on Fi internationally? I have not traveled out of the country since this has been my carrier.

Re: Project Fi Is Now Google Fi

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You should be getting LTE and decent connection speeds in most metro areas of the US. What carrier were you using, and what part of the country were you in?

T-Mobile. I was traveling through California, Oregon, and Nevada.

That's a pretty big travel area, and T-Mobile's core network doesn't work well outside urban centers. (Rural coverage has historically been better on Verizon.)

T-Mobile's Extended Range network (LTE Band 12) has substantially improved their rural coverage lately, but is only supported on the US version of major cell phones. If your phone was purchased outside the US/Canada, it probably didn't have Band 12 support. There's a table here (the specific model number is important, in this case): http://www.spectrumgateway.com/compatible-phones

If you weren't picking up LTE, that also suggests to me you might have been having issues related to Band 12.

But outside that, near any mid-sized population centers (where Band 12 isn't needed), you should've had a fast signal. Especially in California. I just ran a speed test on my phone, running T-Mobile in suburban California, and got 90 Mbps down / 40 Mbps up. That's faster than my home internet connection.

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And Google launches another US-centric product without even thinking about the rest of the world. The lesson, of course, is that the rest of the world needs to get used to the idea that Google (and other bay area companies) are not designing for them, or consider them, and they should rather take care for themselves.

What is the Google Fi of France? Of Germany? Of India?

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