<div dir="auto">Ting is a good idea. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 17, 2017 8:05 PM, "Ed" <<a href="mailto:plug@0x1b.com">plug@0x1b.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Michael, your small phone dreams may become reality - if the Jelly<br>
phone ships - <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-smallest-4g-smartphone" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/<wbr>projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-<wbr>smallest-4g-smartphone</a><br>
also<br>
if IF you can get VoIP to work (sorry Apple profit centers) your phone<br>
bill could be $35-50/year - not including WiFi - or free w/<br>
Google.Voice/Hangouts<br>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I read the thread, and was going to recommend Fi, but the phone lock sucks.<br>
> I tend to use an unlocked phone, as I tend to like small phones, and all I<br>
> can get are tablet-sized phones anymore. Fi not supporting general phones,<br>
> and their smallest being the Pixel at 5.anything inches beyond my caring.<br>
><br>
> I use StraightTalk @ 45/mo, where I pay monthly still because I'm lazy to<br>
> change to a yearly plan. I've been with them 2.some years, it's att on the<br>
> back end (not an incentive as always the first to drop their shorts at a<br>
> government request), but all in all is really good service, imho. It never<br>
> *not* works, and only when I get into a 20 story building in phoenix do I<br>
> ever see an issue.<br>
><br>
> I think about shopping it some, $10/mo for voice/text/data sounds riotous,<br>
> and if I just have to enable something via an app or api call ultimately,<br>
> I'd just look at hacking around it to enable. When last I told Verizon to<br>
> fsck themselves and shopped it, $40 was the cheapest I could find for a<br>
> decent, usable service with straighttalk, or 45 month-to-month that I do. I<br>
> don't know how low att resells their mvno services per user, as really<br>
> straighttalk pays them, and the margin is their profit, but ultimately I<br>
> look at costs knowing a few things about telecomm industries, ~40 still<br>
> seems to be the bar for something not shady, at least last time I cared.<br>
><br>
> I too am interested in what others here use. And looking up this<br>
> AirVoiceWireless. Assume everyone cheap is shady and probably hacked them<br>
> for better data service if janky, probably submitting the how to doing so<br>
> themselves somewhere on the intertubes.<br>
><br>
> -mb<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 6:10 PM, AZ Pete <<a href="mailto:plug@sonoranzen.com">plug@sonoranzen.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I've been using Google Fi and have been very happy with their service (my<br>
>> wife and son also use it).<br>
>><br>
>> $20/mo unlimited talk & text<br>
>> $10/mo for 1GB of data. Unused data is credited back the next month.<br>
>> Since I use such a small amount of data, I always get a credit of $8-9<br>
>> each month and my bill averages around $25 each month (including all the<br>
>> taxes).<br>
>> Downside is you can only use Nexus phones (but I've found them very good).<br>
>> Peter<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 8/17/2017 5:20 PM, <a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> What do y'all recommend as the best cell phone plan<br>
>> for "light" use?<br>
>><br>
>> I have been using a AirVoiceWireless.com no-contract,<br>
>> pay-as-you-go plan for several years and it has generally<br>
>> met my needs. I pay only $10 every 3 months for voice,<br>
>> text, and data and rarely need to add time. However it<br>
>> requires me to turn on "mobile" to get data access and<br>
>> that is a nuisance and data does not always work.<br>
>><br>
>> I've searched for options and ConsumerCellular.com with<br>
>> an advertised average $25/month seems reasonable ...<br>
>> but I would appreciate hearing your recommendations.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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