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Eats Shoots and Leaves
The lack of commas was a deliberate stylistic choice meant to express grumpy breathlessness. I am like James Joyce. Or Dr. Cox from Scrubs.
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> Why are they popular? It makes little sense to pay $90 a month per line. Whoever is paying that much probably doesn't do his/her research or have access to some providers. I pay $35/mo to T-Mobile. 5 GB at high speed per month. Unlimited everything else. Seems their minimum is now $40/mo, but it goes down to $35/mo if you have two lines. I'm sure some MVNOs are a lot cheaper, and I'm all for it. But complaining tha…
Magenta MAX is T-Mobile's unlimited data plan; $170/mo for 2 lines. 2 lines with unlimited data with Mint is ~$60/mo. You are paying $35/mo because you're only getting 5GB data. Check how much similar plans cost in India, Europe, Israel, UK (spoiler: they are drastically cheaper). You are delusional if you think T-Mobile and the other big network providers offer good value for money. Having recently switched to Mint…
Last I checked, it had half the monthly data (2GB vs 4GB) and the same unlimited voice and texts policy. I don't follow along closely, so the limits may have changed again.
I wonder if they will reorganize any of that after acquiring Mint.
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Eats Shoots and Leaves
Apt username, haha. But you can't impose your finicky grammar unto rants. The lack of commas was a deliberate stylistic choice meant to express grumpy breathlessness. I am like James Joyce. Or Dr. Cox from Scrubs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlMWVwAHll0
I went with Mint and a 5g unlocked Motorola phone when T-Mobile stopped supporting the 3g phone I got from T-Mobile. I wonder how long it'll be before I'm forced to discard another otherwise fully functional phone? I'm not a happy camper, but that's par for the course in this, the worst timeline.
Your 3G phone may not have been broken, but using it was like driving a tractor or horse-drawn buggy on a freeway. RF spectrum with propagation characteristics amenable to cellular networks is a precious finite resource, and older, slower radio protocols are downright wasteful to keep operating when LTE and 5G can accommodate more customers and more voice/data throughput with the same bandwidth.
I only used my old phone for actual calls... I use my smartphone wayyyyy more.
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I don't think GP is saying that they're good analogs aside from them being mergers that are ultimately bad for the health of the market place.
I repeat, Mint has always existed at the pleasure of TMobile. This is a no-op.
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> even though Mint uses the same exact network. It's the same network, but you get the capacity that's left over after everyone on T-Mobile has had their fill. Which is why I don't get why everyone is always so excited about these MVNOs. To me, it's like bragging about how cheap airfare is when you go standby: "It's the exact same planes!".
It's not hard to understand: many people simply don't need a high-speed unlimited data plan for their phones. Not everyone makes a habit of streaming video over their cellular connection.
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Related if you can afford it, NextDNS[1] on my mobile device has been a godsend for blocking ads. Literally amazing how much speed it saves when sites aren't loading a bunch of ads / tracking libraries. I use it on my router and mobile devices and it's made a huge difference. Re: competition being removed, that really sucks. I'm a Google Fi customer which has similar pricing, only downside is that if I switch to an i…
I've also had success using dns.adguard.net as the private DNS on my phone. Doesn't cost anything but I believe the paid version of this and similar services allow for customization and statistics. In applications/browsers without an adblocker, ads just show up as broken or don't bother loading. In Firefox/Mull/etc with uBlock Origin, it's redundant as those block and hide. I used to use AdAway (maintains a system-wi…
The UBo team seems to want to find a way to punish users for MV3, removing features that AG MV3 has managed to implement, like adding custom filters. I don't need much of that, but I do need the ability.
The idea is to push uBlock fans (like myself) over to Firefox to use their full implementation. Not only is MV2's time limited in FF, but I used FF for 20 years straight. I'm not going back because there's enough web glitches with it that I don't want to anymore.
AdGuard seems to be doing a great job on mobile and desktop. Your comment just further backed up what I've been finding lately.