It works fine in gl inet boxes, I have it in a pulli, h2g2-t for the hotspot apn…
For me, the international coverage is top notch. Compared to Verizon’s scam of $10/day int’l coverage, Fi is a supreme deal.
Can confirm. 5G unlimited speeds all over France, Germany and Switzerland for two weeks while my wife (on t mobile) got LTE service that basically didn’t work anywhere
Mint charges 40 USD for their one-week international roaming package. The convenience and price factor of Google Fi, particularly when you travel to different countries regularly, is hard to beat.
1 carrier. T-Mobile bought Sprint.
Fi no longer swaps to US Cellular, but it does have roaming agreements with them to run on their towers. So its the same service, but without the Battery drain from swapping carriers.
Just to add to my previous post, I have just completed a 2400+ mile holiday driving trip from Austin, TX to Wisconsin Dells, WI and back and streamed and used Google navigation basically non stop and had coverage the entire way. Coverage was better than I’ve seen on any carrier ever. In 2 middle-of-nowhere towns I was able to pull better than 150mbp/s! Mint is fantastic.
I’m on T-Mobile (planning the switch to fi), and that text message loss must be a TMobile thing. Mine does it all the time.
Their support team is incompetent
That’s not a differentiator
Until you have anything unusual, then it is.
I’m escalating this thread to a specialist.
Check back in a few months.
It is for watches that can connect to LTE so you can use your watch for phone calls, messages etc. when your phone isn’t with you.
Awesome, glad I could help!
I can say with a fair degree of certainty that it’s primarily because of data backups that iPhones do regardless of what data service they are on. Do those manually when you are on WiFi (and delete the Facebook app!) and you will probably be amazed by how much less data you use.
I guess it should be emphasized that having regular WiFi connectivity is a huge factor in this discussion.
As a reference, I’m exactly half way through my monthly data cycle and I have used 1.8GB of my 15GB allotted. I’m on a pixel 7 pro.
The Fi support was pretty incompetent and had me repeating myself for about an hour before saying what I wanted to do wasn’t possible. So I was pretty over it and made it easy to transfer all lines.
Fi unfortunately does not allow you to change the owner of a plan. Which means if the primary line needs to transfer all others will be affected well
Just fi. I was thrilled it worked so well. They sent a text at every country saying we have you covered. The local sim I bought for our 2nd phone sucked. We were in each country about a week. Also Sicily. Worked fab everywhere for 5 1/2 weeks. I did have a mint sim card in a tablet and used it once in Sicily when I locked my cell in the Airbnb and needed to text owner. It worked but can’t vouch for it at any other location. I’d always bring an extra sim from home on future trips. Wish my S10 had an esim.
they did have that option when I applied.
Yes, they did when I subscribed.
Yeah, I’m aware of those things. I had metropcs stores when the company first started and wasn’t owned by any one carrier except its investors. And then at&t brought cricket and then many many many years later visible was created
Reading the documentation it’s just a handshake saying you have permission to access the VPN, but all data is anonymous.
Whether you trust that or not is another thing lol
But it is good to have if you connect to any VPN outside your home network and don’t want them to have visibility into your activity.
Is there an advantage to doing that instead of just doing another phone line on the lower plan? I can do 4 phones for 80 vs 2 for 110. I don’t have any devices other than a watch that could use it.