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How on earth do people have mobile bills of $120 a month?
I think those are family plan prices. I pay about $140 unlimited cell data, 15Gigs for tethering, an Apple Watch, and 2 lines of unlimited talk/text.
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FWIW, I successfully used my unofficially supported Galaxy S9 in India. I did hit one snag, which is that I had bought the phone prior to going on the trip and hadn't installed the Project Fi app yet which meant I couldn't connect to any network after landing. Once I got on wifi and installed the app, I had 4G during my entire stay even in the most rural areas on overnight trains and no issues. Though had I bothered…
When I brought my Samsung S7 with a Fi data sim to Korea, it worked fine. When I brought it to Japan, nothing. My Nexus 5X worked great in both places.
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I think those are family plan prices. I pay about $140 unlimited cell data, 15Gigs for tethering, an Apple Watch, and 2 lines of unlimited talk/text.
How would the carrier know if you use your cellphone for tethering, and separately bill that traffic?
Years ago AT&T sent me text right when I connected to my hotspot. I can’t see the tethering data use on AT&Ts dashboard but I can see usage per line.
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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.
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Capped at $60 for data.
Ah yeah, looks like they rolled out some new plans with the change up, or I didn't look at all the options when I last looked.
What concerns me is the throttling at/after 15 GB. Other carriers have this, too, but it is supposedly "dependent on local load/conditions", and comments have led me to understand that, for some if not many people, they don't encounter the slowdown much in practice.
Whereas, being an MVNO and also perhaps having better software, Fi might be more strict and aggressive with the throttling? I don't know.
Is 10$/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
On the higher range, but if you consider that it is global LTE data, it is an amazing deal, particularly if you use more than 6GB/month. Being able to land or drive into a country and have LTE working without having to do anything is amazing, especially when going through several countries.
Some places have seriously screwy cell pricing, signing up to this would be cheaper for data.
I have a LG Sport Watch which has a Sim card. Anyone know if this is now supported? I've never been able to get it to work because you need to register the Sim card on a device that works with Fi and my current devices are sim-less. I've been on Fi for years and highly recommended it.
Order a data-only sim. Works for my LG Watch no problem.
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"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
It's really amazing. Only countries I've ever visited without Fi support were Iran and Ethiopia. Even in Iraq and Myanmar, Fi worked great. Your traffic also automatically goes through Fi's VPN, which unlike ExpressVPN and most other big commercial ones, has never in my experience been blocked by China.