Ting is a good idea. 

On Aug 17, 2017 8:05 PM, "Ed" <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:

Michael, your small phone dreams may become reality - if the Jelly
phone ships - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-smallest-4g-smartphone
also
if IF you can get VoIP to work (sorry Apple profit centers) your phone
bill could be $35-50/year - not including WiFi - or free w/
Google.Voice/Hangouts

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
> I read the thread, and was going to recommend Fi, but the phone lock sucks.
> I tend to use an unlocked phone, as I tend to like small phones, and all I
> can get are tablet-sized phones anymore.  Fi not supporting general phones,
> and their smallest being the Pixel at 5.anything inches beyond my caring.
>
> I use StraightTalk @ 45/mo, where I pay monthly still because I'm lazy to
> change to a yearly plan.  I've been with them 2.some years, it's att on the
> back end (not an incentive as always the first to drop their shorts at a
> government request), but all in all is really good service, imho.  It never
> *not* works, and only when I get into a 20 story building in phoenix do I
> ever see an issue.
>
> I think about shopping it some, $10/mo for voice/text/data sounds riotous,
> and if I just have to enable something via an app or api call ultimately,
> I'd just look at hacking around it to enable.  When last I told Verizon to
> fsck themselves and shopped it, $40 was the cheapest I could find for a
> decent, usable service with straighttalk, or 45 month-to-month that I do.  I
> don't know how low att resells their mvno services per user, as really
> straighttalk pays them, and the margin is their profit, but ultimately I
> look at costs knowing a few things about telecomm industries, ~40 still
> seems to be the bar for something not shady, at least last time I cared.
>
> I too am interested in what others here use. And looking up this
> AirVoiceWireless.  Assume everyone cheap is shady and probably hacked them
> for better data service if janky, probably submitting the how to doing so
> themselves somewhere on the intertubes.
>
> -mb
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 6:10 PM, AZ Pete <plug@sonoranzen.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been using Google Fi and have been very happy with their service (my
>> wife and son also use it).
>>
>> $20/mo unlimited talk & text
>> $10/mo for 1GB of data. Unused data is credited back the next month.
>> Since I use such a small amount of data, I always get a credit of $8-9
>> each month and my bill averages around $25 each month (including all the
>> taxes).
>> Downside is you can only use Nexus phones (but I've found them very good).
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 8/17/2017 5:20 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>>
>> What do y'all recommend as the best cell phone plan
>> for "light" use?
>>
>> I have been using a AirVoiceWireless.com no-contract,
>> pay-as-you-go plan for several years and it has generally
>> met my needs. I pay only $10 every 3 months for voice,
>> text, and data and rarely need to add time. However it
>> requires me to turn on "mobile" to get data access and
>> that is a nuisance and data does not always work.
>>
>> I've searched for options and ConsumerCellular.com with
>> an advertised average $25/month seems reasonable ...
>> but I would appreciate hearing your recommendations.
>>
>>
>>
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