OT: Best cell phone plan for light use?

[Kevin Fries]

I also use Fi, and have for over 2 years.  I now have my wife on as a
family plan.

$20/mo + $15/mo for additional members and $10/Gb.  No additional cost for
a tablet other than data.

I highly recommend!!

Kevin

On Aug 17, 2017 9:40 PM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ting is a good idea.
>
> On Aug 17, 2017 8:05 PM, "Ed" <plug at 0x1b.com> wrote:
>
> Michael, your small phone dreams may become reality - if the Jelly
> phone ships - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-sm
> allest-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 at 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 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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