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So I'm heading to BC for Xmas and wondered what my options were in terms of cell service with the X. I see that intl. roaming is .69/minute. Is that it, or is there some temporary plan/service I can add through Verizon that'll let me use the phone without roaming fees?
Thanks for the info!
Call Verizon and temporarily switch to the unlimited data US and Canada plan, Canada has Verizon partners that will keep you with good reception on your trip.
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So I just got a notice in the mail today dated Feb 16th that my employee discount for my work is being canceled for my unlimited data plan. I just got off contract last month and it looks like Verizon is trying to get me off this plan. So I'm looking to switch to another carrier. I have two months to do so, more like one now that Verizon sent that letter so late. Anyone know of anything that could maybe meet my needs?
Needs: Unlimited Data, (Or a lot of it ~8GB)
Keep phone. I have a Galaxy note 2 I wish to unlock. (Looking up how to do that if anyone has answers I would appreciate them)
Keep bill below $74, which is what I'm currently paying per month, otherwise I pay about $86.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Verizon is really trying to screw people right now and it's a bummer that this is happening to you. T-Mobile has the best prices and the fastest 4G LTE network from speed tests that I personally have done. I've achieved speeds of over 42Mbps on their network (mind-blowing) and have been with T-Mobile ever since. Their HD voice calling is AMAZING. Crystal clear. And T-Mobile just spent $4.6 billion on upgrading their network and buying spectrum off of Verizon to level the playing field. Now my entire family is on T-Mobile and I have yet to hear a single complaint.
Here's what you would get for $70.00 per month plus tax:
-Unlimited minutes
-Unlimited texting
-Truly unlimited data (no caps, period)
- 2.5GB of hotspot included at no extra cost (and if you want more hotspot it's only $10 more per 2GB increment)
- NO CONTRACT!!! Bring your own phone! NO ACTIVATION FEES! NO OBLIGATIONS!
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I switched to T-Mobile's new bring your own phone plan. Other than getting slowed down to 0.08Mbps after my 1GB of High speed data, it really is unlimited though excruciatingly slow.
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Not on one of the big 4 here in the USA with your Angler? Since the Nexus 6p is mostly not carrier subsidized, I'm thinking this is a good place to find out what MVNO's people are using to save money.... If so for you, please tell us who your with, what plan your on with them, and why your with them!! And anything else you care to share both good and bad...
In the last year I have been on the following MVNO's...
Ting - Sprint
Ting - T-Mobile
Straight talk - T-Mobile
Straight talk - Verizon
Straight talk - AT&T
Google Project Fi
Cricket - AT&T
Page Plus - Verizon
Verizon Prepaid
AT&T Gophone
And have signed up for Harbor Mobile AT&T and Red Pocket Mobile Verizon. Haven't received the Sim's yet for the last 2.. Let me know if you have questions on any of these. Will be happy to report my results
In addition to that, I was in contract with the real big red dollar sucking Verizon and also was on the real big Orange AT&T on a company business plan.
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Not on one of the big 4 here in the USA with your Angler? Since the Nexus 6p is mostly not carrier subsidized, I'm thinking this is a good place to find out what MVNO's people are using to save money.... If so for you, please tell us who your with, what plan your on with them, and why your with them!! And anything else you care to share both good and bad...
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Been using Straight Talk AT&T for about 3 years now.
Reasonable price ($45), 5GB of 4G data, and a strong AT&T network keeps me with them.
I switched from Sprint post-paid on December 2013 back when I bought my Nexus 5 and decided to go with Simplemobile to pay half of what I was paying with Sprint. It all went well up until 5 months in when all of a sudden I lost data connection for the better part of a month, as usual with MVNO's the customer service is flaky so I couldn't find out what was wrong.
I then switched to t-mo $30 plan but the whole 100 minutes per month had me cutting people's conversations short or forcing them to use wifi calling apps. It became too much of a hassle so I decided to go with Straighttalk using t-mobile's service. I used them for a whole year without any issues, however I kept looking for cheaper service and that's when I discovered Cricket. For $35 a month (taxes and fees included) I get everything I need and since I don't use much data, 2.5GB a month is more than enough for me.
Once this month is up I'm going to try project Fi, since I use less than 1GB of mobile data I would probably end up paying less than with Cricket.
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Been using Straight Talk AT&T for about 3 years now.
Reasonable price ($45), 5GB of 4G data, and a strong AT&T network keeps me with them.
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Yeah, I really like Straight talk AT&T as well.. Did you know that they have a new plan, 10gb for 55$ !! Cant hardly beat that! Here are the details.
HueleSnaiL said:
I switched from Sprint post-paid on December 2013 back when I bought my Nexus 5 and decided to go with Simplemobile to pay half of what I was paying with Sprint. It all went well up until 5 months in when all of a sudden I lost data connection for the better part of a month, as usual with MVNO's the customer service is flaky so I couldn't find out what was wrong.
I then switched to t-mo $30 plan but the whole 100 minutes per month had me cutting people's conversations short or forcing them to use wifi calling apps. It became too much of a hassle so I decided to go with Straighttalk using t-mobile's service. I used them for a whole year without any issues, however I kept looking for cheaper service and that's when I discovered Cricket. For $35 a month (taxes and fees included) I get everything I need and since I don't use much data, 2.5GB a month is more than enough for me.
Once this month is up I'm going to try project Fi, since I use less than 1GB of mobile data I would probably end up paying less than with Cricket.
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Yup, Customer service is the number 1 complaint with MVNO's.. If you live where Sprint and T-mobile have good coverage and you aren't a heavy data user then Fi is an excellent choice!! I currently have it on one of my phones and really like it except that where I live both Sprint and T-mobile have less than ideal coverage. Also, FI has excellent customer service!
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Yeah, I really like Straight talk AT&T as well.. Did you know that they have a new plan, 10gb for 55$ !! Cant hardly beat that! Here are the details.
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Thanks, that's good to know but for now 5GB is enough.
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Thanks, that's good to know but for now 5GB is enough.
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:good::good: Good for you I can never have enough data for cheap lol I take way to many speed tests
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:good::good: Good for you I can never have enough data for cheap lol I take way to many speed tests
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Speaking of speedtests Post your here!
I'm on the MetroPcs $60 unlimited plan. Both me and my wife are on it so I get $5 off each line. Its comes down to $110 a month. They throttle after 23gb but I always end the month at about 20gb.
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mexiking713 said:
I'm on the MetroPcs $60 unlimited plan. Both me and my wife are on it so I get $5 off each line. Its comes down to $110 a month. They throttle after 23gb but I always end the month at about 20gb.
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Same here.. I've been using way more than 23gb though and have never been throttled... My data speed is faster than my wifi so I'm always using my mobile data
So can any one please confirm that with the Nexus 6P on Metro PCS... Does WiFi calling and VoLTE both work OK?
Im on MetroPCS I can confirm Wifi Calling works great although you have to delete all the apns then change the APN on GPRS to MetroPCS from fast.tmobile... To fast.metropcs... VoLte is enabled too not sure how to test it though. Also visual voicemail might work also in stock dialer but Im on PureNexus rom can anyone confirm it works? I flashed Google Fi Dialer.
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DroidDogg said:
Im on MetroPCS I can confirm Wifi Calling works great although you have to delete all the apns then change the APN on GPRS to MetroPCS from fast.tmobile... To fast.metropcs... VoLte is enabled too not sure how to test it though. Also visual voicemail might work also in stock dialer but Im on PureNexus rom can anyone confirm it works? I flashed Google Fi Dialer.
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Cool! Post some screen shots of your APN settings please!! One way to test to VoLTE is check and see if you have mobile data while on a phone call. What about roaming to AT&T where T-Mobile has no coverage? Any luck there? T-Mobile had finally turned up LTE in my area and I'm considering using them in my back up phone. I have FI now, but to expensive if you use lots of data and FI has no mobile data while on the phone.
Visual Voicemail works in the stock dialer also
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/wifi-calling-metropcs-t3247414
(Instructions listed on page 4 of that thread)
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Do any of you guys use your carrier locked at&t phone on a prepaid service. Who's got the best monthly deal, data speeds, etc. I've never been off contract so I'm really not familiar with my options. Would sim unlocking make my choices any better or a waste of money? AT&T and Verizon are the only two carriers that work well in my area so I need to use there towers.
I've pretty much narrowed it down to cricket or straight talk. Has anyone had experience with either?
AndroiderM said:
I've pretty much narrowed it down to cricket or straight talk. Has anyone had experience with either?
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It's really going to vary alot by area. You can shop prices no problem but I'd try to find someone in your area with the services you're looking at.
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Clienterror said:
It's really going to vary alot by area. You can shop prices no problem but I'd try to find someone in your area with the services you're looking at.
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From what I understand they both run on At&t towers but cricket run only on the at&t towers where as straight talk can roam on T-Mobile towers also. At&t coverage has always been fine in my area and I don't think my phone ever roams on my contract plan. Prices between the two plans are practically the same, just wanted to know if anyone had experience with them customer service, data throttling, etc
Gotcha, I know strait talk will throttle after 5gb on their unlimited data plan but other than that I don't know much. Good luck!
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i have cricket, 5gb LTE for 45$ a month, not bad. their LTE speed is limited 8mb download. it' really NOT that slow. it uses the same tower as ATT.
Clienterror said:
It's really going to vary alot by area. You can shop prices no problem but I'd try to find someone in your area with the services you're looking at.
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netnerd said:
i have cricket, 5gb LTE for 45$ a month, not bad. their LTE speed is limited 8mb download. it' really NOT that slow. it uses the same tower as ATT.
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After some extensive research I ordered the cricket sim with the $70 unlimited plan. They say it is truly unlimited but some online users say they throttle after 18-20gbs. I really just want my hotspot to work for downloading large files 200+ gigs a month. Where I live my only options for home Internet is DSL at maybe 175kbs ⬇. I should get my sim in tomorrow I'll post back some speed test
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After some extensive research I ordered the cricket sim with the $70 unlimited plan. They say it is truly unlimited but some online users say they throttle after 18-20gbs. I really just want my hotspot to work for downloading large files 200+ gigs a month. Where I live my only options for home Internet is DSL at maybe 175kbs ⬇. I should get my sim in tomorrow I'll post back some speed test
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Is tethering included or are you using PDAnet or something? I'm interested in how this will turn out, I work for AT&T mobile and they would definetly do a deep packet inspection on you if you were trying to use anything over like 50 gigs a month and see your tethering. I hope it works for you, but if tethering isn't included there's no way you aren't going to throw some red flags with 200 gigs a month.
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Clienterror said:
Is tethering included or are you using PDAnet or something? I'm interested in how this will turn out, I work for AT&T mobile and they would definetly do a deep packet inspection on you if you were trying to use anything over like 50 gigs a month and see your tethering. I hope it works for you, but if tethering isn't included there's no way you aren't going to throw some red flags with 200 gigs a month.
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I hooked up my new sim yesterday and so far it's comparable to my at&t service as far as speed and coverage. The hotspot is not enabled on the unlimited plan, you have to pay an additional $10 a month to use it. Still not a deal breaker for me cause I use my phone for large torrents them copy over OTG to an external drive. I've already used about 10gb of data overnight last night and it hasn't throttled yet. I will be really testing the unlimited over the next 30 days to see if they throttle me down after alot of usage. From what I've read on cricket it's truly unlimited but they throttle your speed to 8mbs LTE and 4mbs 4G the whole time which isn't horrible by a long shot for your average user, for huge file download it's not great but still smokes my DSL so far I'm impressed and saving a ton of money compared to my at&t plan. The port of my number was painless didn't have to change apn or any other settings worked right out the box. $65 a month tax included with auto pay set up is hard to beat.
I use a VPN, when you say packet inspection does that mean they snoop to see where your usage is coming from? Will my VPN protect me from them seeing my activity?
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Chatted with cricket and they said no hotspot but I could use as much data to the phone as I want, even 200+gb. Taking this with a grain of salt but here's the chat log.
AndroiderM said:
Chatted with cricket and they said no hotspot but I could use as much data to the phone as I want, even 200+gb. Taking this with a grain of salt but here's the chat log.
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Yeah unlimited on your phone is fine if it's legit using 200 gigs a month but it will still throe red flags and they'll inspect your packets (and find you're being legit). But if you try to tether 200 gigs and they inspect you they'll see what you're doing.
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Clienterror said:
Yeah unlimited on your phone is fine if it's legit using 200 gigs a month but it will still throe red flags and they'll inspect your packets (and find you're being legit). But if you try to tether 200 gigs and they inspect you they'll see what you're doing.
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If I do use foxfi or another teether workaround with a VPN on each device can at&t/cricket see which device is using the data with there packet sniffing?
Question: I tried dropping my existing cricket SIM into my brand new AT&T S7 Edge. LTE works great, but if it goes to 4g for any reason (like during a phone call), it won't switch back to LTE unless I toggle airplane mode or reboot. I've done a couple factory resets and had cricket remotely refresh the SIM. No change. Even exchanged my phone today at Best Buy, thinking I'd gotten a bad one. Same issue.
Do I need to get a new SIM altogether, maybe? Any thoughts would be welcomed. I switched from the international version to get Samsung Pay, but I don't want a gimped phone because of it.
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Mootarjim said:
Question: I tried dropping my existing cricket SIM into my brand new AT&T S7 Edge. LTE works great, but if it goes to 4g for any reason (like during a phone call), it won't switch back to LTE unless I toggle airplane mode or reboot. I've done a couple factory resets and had cricket remotely refresh the SIM. No change. Even exchanged my phone today at Best Buy, thinking I'd gotten a bad one. Same issue.
Do I need to get a new SIM altogether, maybe? Any thoughts would be welcomed. I switched from the international version to get Samsung Pay, but I don't want a gimped phone because of it.
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Maybe a new sim and update imei on your cricket account. I haven't had this issue but when I ordered my sim I put my imei from s7e. I'm not sure that this is the issue or not.
Edit just tested this making a phone call goes to 4g but as soon as I hang up it jumps right back to lte instantly
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I'm exactly halfway through my billing cycle and have used 103 GB with no issues of throttling or losing service. Here's a screenshot
Hi, which website is recommended for unlocking?
With all the chatter about the different issues in and around cell service, I'm curious if anyone has been using the Essential Phone with MintSim. I'm on Verizon now in New York City and have my own set of issues with the phone so was thinking about trying MintSim because it's cheaper and because maybe wifi calling would work which would come in handy for me.
Anyone using MintSim care to share where they are geographically, how service has been, if wifi calling works and if tethering works?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Just got it today. my first boot was to my mintsim sim (haven't even had the sprint sim in it). It picked up a signal right away
Yep, Mint works fine, wifi calling works fine.
Thanks for the info. I may give mintsim a shot soon. Do you recommend it? I currently have a pretty good deal as I'm part of a multi-line Verizon account paying roughly $40 a month for unlimited but don't need unlimited.
tahlsr said:
Thanks for the info. I may give mintsim a shot soon. Do you recommend it? I currently have a pretty good deal as I'm part of a multi-line Verizon account paying roughly $40 a month for unlimited but don't need unlimited.
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Love them. My first year is up in 3 months. I bought a year with an additional 20% off, so 5gb has been costing me only $22/mo.