- Have family/multiple lines in the plan.
I found cricket to be terribly deprioritized in the NYC area. Fi doesn’t have that problem but T-Mobile is definitely worth underground in the subway and tunnels in the car then AT&t is.
Thank you so much. Do you know why unlimited data is needed for iPhone vs not for Android? I’m trying to dig into why this is happening. You’re right that it wasn’t an issue when I was on a Pixel phone
apparently you can’t transfer just one number from a plan without cancelling your plan for everyone
That’s not true. I just transferred my wife’s number off my Fi plan like 6 months ago without issue.
That’s pretty much true at every carrier if it’s the main line. What I used to do with TMo was to change which line was primary and then I could port a non primary line to not disconnect them all
I switched to iPhone and my life is way better just two months in. And I was a Pixel lifer! So the monthly subsidy doesn’t do me any good anymore
On Mint or on Fi or both? I’ve done Europe with Fi as early as 2015
Does Mint even give you a choice of Verizon vs T Mobile?
Followup… Moved whole family over to Mint. Picked up two Pixel 9 deal with free extra 6 months service. Love I finally have an all day+ battery over my 16 month old Samsung S22 that could barely go half a day. Service has been comparable to Fi, and cheaper especially after Fi raised prices and f’ed me over my switch back and forth between simple unlimited and full unlimited (had trip to Europe). I like that Mint still has an easy way to get 10 day international data passes for a decent price too. Anything longer and we’ll probably just get a local SIM next time.
I’m OP and have decided to stay with Fi because of the free year of YouTube premium. when it is over, I plan to switch over to T-Mobile with an employee discount from my company because their package includes Netflix Apple TV and I think one other streaming service for free every year
They’ll keep the deal the same, and it won’t kill their platform. It’s an illusion of choice thing. Either way they make big money.
It is pretty common for post paid network providers to also own a MVNO subsidiary. Verizon owns Visible, AT&T owns Cricket, TMo also already owns Metro PCS. So it is very likely that Tmo will continue to let Mint do its thing.
If that deal was going to affect prices, it would have happened already. Plus, in a gesture to reassure Mint clients, they pushed their high speed data amounts up dramatically a several months back at no cost. I was almost never getting to the end of my high speed data when I got 10GB but now that it’s 15GB, I don’t even get close. Still paying $20/month for my phone like I have been from the beginning.
Don’t really see the value in having your ISP provide your VPN.
Technically if you want to get the best deal from Mint, you pay for a year at a time. They have a 3 month promo deal right now but if you renew with another 3 month plan it would get more expensive than the year plan.
yeah its an odd flex not to do that… i imagine its tmobile forcing that
So it doesn’t help -you- but an iPad, Samsung tab, tethering device, webcam, whatever can have a SIM for free in your data allotment. I have two phones I use back and forth, an iPad, a comma.ai box, pixel watch all on one line.
Flex is the plan I use except when I know I will be out of town. With Flex and Unlimited Plus, users get a few free physical data sims that can be used with most Tmobile compatible devices. The data is shared, so any data used on a data sim is counts towards the data usage of the main phone. I have data sims that I have in 4 old phones.
What can I do on my other phones? Almost anything you could do via the internet.
In our case, old phones. Handy for some multitasking and media playback so the battery doesn’t get drained on our main devices. DOn’t need a second phone line, just data, so that works out great.
Definitely refuse to buy the substandard american iphones, in fact this is a big part of why we left the iphone world.