Do you use Google Fi? Is it better than ATT?
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Do you use Google Fi? Is it better than ATT?
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Re: Do you use Google Fi? Is it better than ATT?
#2I am on Google-Fi. Performance / coverage is pretty good, but I can't compare to ATT.
I will say I feel like the pricing isn't very competitive with other carriers, as it was ~2 years ago. Fi is a great choice for someone who knows they will be on WiFi the majority of the time, and want to keep your wireless bill <50$ a month. Once you start using data, it gets pretty expensive, even with their recent data cap protection.
Re: Do you use Google Fi? Is it better than ATT?
#3I had a google Fi phone, and I was paying for insurance on my pixel handset. Which I used exclusively for work. I also had the 2 year warranty. That is when my phone quit making calls. (prior to this it had been knocked off of my desk, and the glass cracked on one of the corners. Google says the camera is broken, which it isn't and that is due to my abuse and that is their reason. In fact the camera is the only thing that actually works as advertised! So, I asked for a supervisor. Google then changed the warranty on my purchase to 90 days and said the repair was out of warranty. I said "wow, wtf - but no worries I pay them insurance" they would not honor it and told me I had to contact out of warranty repair - they had two options and neither would service a phone in my state...
I subsequently terminated FI, gave away my pixelbook and the(which doesn't work with the pixel2, and don't even get started about bluetooth - that doesn't work - of course that made the matching ear buds useless...) You have been warned. Google are fucking cunts. Maybe others have had different experiences, fair enough. Mine was a nightmare.
I now switched to voip because all of the major carries ATT, Tmobile, and Version (who said they required the deed to my home to start service with me???) are absolutely appalling in their treatment of customers.
Incidentally, world-wide voip has cost me $200 for the year so far (9 months, just purchased as second gig) with unlimited calling, texting. I use a different device for data - which I pipe over a VPN($ cash for VPN) from my handset to the PBX ($ for hosting) - and it works anywhere on the globe at $9/gig (golocalme for global voip data) as I regularly make overseas calls as part of my job.
So far the VPN uses the most data, but the voip is so frugal that gig lasted me 6 months without any thoughts to being frugal with calls or minutes. I don't use data otherwise with my phone and aggressively drop all data that isn't my voip app. New phone is a Nexus 5 running ubuntu touch. Anyhow - that $200 used to be my monthly bill. Although, it was painful to have to engineer my own solution, but in the end it has been substantially more satisfying and cheaper.