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Slightly OT: Has anybody had any luck with an MVNO, like Visible or Mint Mobile? I want to ditch Verizon because $98/mo for spouse and me to use 2GB between us both is just the height of insanity in 2023.
Final straw for me. Just called and canceled after 15+ years—shockingly, they were loath to actually provide the unlock code to port my number out. Switched to an MVNO on the same network that’s >50% cheaper.
13 years here, what MVNO did you pick? I'm looking at visible and US cellular.
AT&T and Verizon had really sweet deals at the beggining of the year to pull alway some of TMO's customers but now that TMO raised their prices, ATT and VZW also unsweetened their plans.
TL;DR - T-Mobile grandfathers but you'll have to call T-Force every time to fight for it. AT&T & Verizon don't hassle their customers.
> "We are not raising the price of any of our plans; we are moving you to a newer plan with more benefits at a different cost." This shouldn't be legal?
It is amazing to me that the government continues to allow these mergers when time and time again it shows that the consumer end up paying more, not less.
It's because government is run by people from/with close ties to the businesses and take massive bribes that we quaintly call "campaign contributions" from them. Any excuse to allow the mergers will be found because of that. In a word, it's plutocracy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/oaophe/data_pri...
> QCI 6 is applied to all of T-Mobile's postpaid and prepaid plans (except for Essentials) and Google Fi which also has QCI 6 as well. This means if you want the absolute best from T-Mobile, you want to get a plan directly from them. Even their cheap $10 prepaid 1GB Connect plan has priority data.
Google Fi also gives you unlimited 5G / LTE data when roaming outside the US as well. For their unlimited plus plan, it looks to be on par with the T-Mobile magenta plan in terms of price.
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13 years here, what MVNO did you pick? I'm looking at visible and US cellular.
I went to Verizon (but they're not an MVNO), T-Mobile is cheap but Verizon is one of those legacy carriers that won't pull quick tricks on you. From time to time, Verizon will try to compete with T-Mobile and offer low priced tiers. Once you get into those, you can grandfather in and wait while the dust settles so you can decide who to move to for the next-generation network. AT&T and Verizon had really sweet deals a…
It is amazing to me that the government continues to allow these mergers when time and time again it shows that the consumer end up paying more, not less.
Final straw for me. Just called and canceled after 15+ years—shockingly, they were loath to actually provide the unlock code to port my number out. Switched to an MVNO on the same network that’s >50% cheaper.
13 years here, what MVNO did you pick? I'm looking at visible and US cellular.
How is this even remotely legal? I'm genuinely asking. They must have consulted with lawyers and believe it is legal. But even if their TOS say they reserve the right to change anyone's plan at any time... that seems like one of those clauses that judges always strike down. This is just flat-out providing a different service than you contracted for. This is like if I order a $200 SSD from Amazon and instead they ship…
Eg, one day my account stopped being able to log in to Canada to use the Canadian data on my account.
Only changing plans fixed it
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13 years here, what MVNO did you pick? I'm looking at visible and US cellular.
9 years (and 2-3 lines) here, moving to Mint. Should have done this a long time ago...
https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/t-mobile-to-acquire-m...