cellphone plans

[darkoshi]

Verizon's Visible prepaid cellphone service ($40/month unlimited) is now available for Samsung Galaxy S9 phones, as well as iPhones. Support for other Android phones is "coming soon".

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BestBuy and Sprint have an offer available until 4/4/2019:
"unlimited data, talk and text, video streams up to 480p, music up to 500 Kbps and gaming streams up to 2 Mbps. Just $25/mo. with Autopay when you buy an unlocked phone or a Sprint phone via one-time payment."

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Mint Mobile has an intro offer available for new customers until 2/28/2019: $20 for the first 3 months of unlimited text/talk/data with up to 8GB LTE data per month.

The taxes & fees are an extra $4.28 in my area, and the price includes the SIM card and free shipping.

I'd been planning to sign up with them anyway, so I went ahead and ordered that.

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Struck out on this (3/3)

[marahmarie]

On the Best Buy/Sprint deal would you be okay with video, music and gaming being that slow? I personally wouldn't (I don't game at all so that's not a consideration, but I do watch video on the phone and if I listened to music on it (I mostly don't outside of the rare YouTube video, but one never knows) I'd want it to not buffer or skip or stutter).

I'm about to go check out the Verizon deal. My phone was sold by AT&T but ever since that law was passed that phones can't be locked I can get an unlock code if needed (but it might not be, it might Just Work with Verizon's SIM), so. If the deal doesn't include a hotspot I can't do it, though, since Comcast kicks out enough around here that it's needed and to run the script we were working on I'll need a hotspot for now.

(Just recalled that on my Galaxy s4 the hotspot wouldn't work because it was a Verizon phone running on AT&T. When I called AT&T they claimed they couldn't get the APNs to match up in the same ways, or something, so I might have the same problem only in reverse if I jump to Verizon. Just something for me to keep in mind, I guess.)

Edit: Used their compatibility checker; it says "device not compatible". Clicking Next takes me to a new page to shop phones, because of course it does. So that's out.

With Mint my question would be "which network are they actually using" or do they rent from/jump All The Networks like the one I read about last night - which might've been Mint, come to think of it (can't find the article now, but it was in SmartNews).

Edit: Mint's on T-Mobile, according to your post on Verizon and a Google search. Mint's coverage is good for my city but not outlying areas, and I do visit those from time to time, so that's out.

T-Mobile of late has amazing customer service (at least, gathered from much of what I've been reading) so hopefully you'll enjoy that.