OT: Best cell phone plan for light use?

[Michael Butash]

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 at 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 at 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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