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Carrier Cheaper service than T-Mobile?

Bigwaff said:
For four lines, you pay $340/m with discounts? Yi yi yi. That's insane.
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Sorry sorry, 5 lines. My bad. Still not great.

MVNO is the way to go. You can save some BIG money.

Note, tho, on our plan - we have 2 device payments, both of those lines have perks (music, streaming, etc). One family member has Unlimited Ultimate for its unlimited hot spotting. So they're paying most of the $. My line after everything is low $40s.
 
BigMcGuire said:
Re: Verizon Simplicity Plan:

EDIT: Sorry 5 lines.
So I have a Verizon Wireless 5 line plan. We're on Unlimited Plus (3) and Unlimited Ultimate (1).

After everything (taxes/deductions/etc) - it is $340/month for 5 of us. 2 of us are on phone payment plans. Some have perks (music/streaming).

The Simplicity Plan says I can't just change ONE line to the simple plan but all have to switch. And on the warning page it says we will lose $87/mo in monthly discounts in a big warning block. Then it says the new plan will be $270/mo. (I assume before taxes).

Biggest warning - the 2 lines on device payment plans lose their Device Installment discounts from trade in...

I lose my employer discount, loyalty discounts we got recently, etc...

So yeah it is simple but doesn't look to be that much cheaper. Significantly less hotspot too.
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Or, five Unlimited lines of Mint Mobile for $150 per month. About half of what Verizon is charging you.

Plus, with Mint, you activate one line and then use it to refer the other lines, and you earn a pretty big discount.
 
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So nice to see competition, up here we have 3 major owners of all telecoms. They price fix against each other, make up rules as they go and get the government to squash any outside competition. Therefore our telecom prices are freakin rediculous. We finally get unlimited plans but there is always a catch with the telecoms in Canada. You only get 50gb of hotspotting per month, tablets cannot go on the unlimited plans. So basically it's silly to have an unlimited plan. Best part it's 120 bucks a month per line.

I would go to a Pay as you go plan with a decent amount of data but they cripple you behind no wifi calling. In Newfoundland we need that as there are many places that dont have great or any coverage. So they have you by the bells again.
 
I just switched to Visible. I have their most expensive plan with 15mbps unlimited hot spot since I work out of the home around the city a lot with my Neo.

It's $40/mo - $15/mo since I use Verizon Fios internet = $25/mo for amazing service and no contracts.

I use Verizon's cheapest Fios plan which is $45/mo.

So $70 for phone with unlimited high speed hot spot & home internet is not bad.
 
BigMcGuire said:
I have had to have backup lines for my work for the last year or two.

I've used Mint, Visible, and US Mobile. They are amazing - and having tested both side by side with Verizon Wireless' Unlimited Ultimate - can't really tell a difference when you're on comparable plans.

And you can REALLY save money if you're good about not using cellular data. ($96/year is crazy (2GB/mo)).
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I did the same thing with 2 iPhones comparing Verizon Unlimited with Visible+ Pro (plan with no de-prioritization) and found absolutely no difference in the number of bars, signal strength, data speed and voice quality. Finally made the switch and took advantage of the special pricing of $225 for the year. The plan includes my Ultra 3. I was paying $85 a month with Verizon. I never finance my iPhones so Visible was perfect for me. Those that have to finance phones with the carriers are playing a suckers game with the carriers to lock you into long term contracts with them and in the long term you end up overpaying substantially.
 
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I've been on an unlimited Mint plan for five years now. Came from at&t and, in my area, Mint was faster at the time. No idea how they compare today. I wouldn't switch back to another non-MVNO in the states, the experience has been that good.

They keep up with the current tech. 5GUC is in my area since last year, IIRC. They say you get deprioritized vs T-Mobile customers but I honestly haven't seen that. I was kicked off more often on at&t towers than I have been on Mint. That's partly what prompted me to start looking at other options, that and price was ridiculous for what I was getting (6GB/data, unlimited talk/text for $65 - I pay that for fiber at my house!). Dropped the price more than in half and get better, faster, service. Uh yeah!

Only major caveats are that you pay a year in full for the best prices and it's cheapest with BYOD (budget for the device and you can save a boat load, or use Apple's 0% financing for 24 months an borrow their money instead, even better if you have financial discipline). They do offer phones for purchase now though.

I have 1 teenager with his own plan (he works, he pays for it) and he's happy with them too. $15/mo for 3 months and 6GB data but he's on wifi more often than not so that hasn't been an issue. I choose unlimited because I stream all of my music in the car. Streaming video is downgraded to non-HD but I don't care since I'm usually not watching videos when out and about. However, I understand that people pay for HD video streaming since they have a different use case.
 
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Depending on where you work look and see if your employer has any special pricing deals. Mine has benefits with Previ Mobile that does Business / Enterprise lines with T-mobile & AT&T. I chose T-mobile and the service cost with taxes is $27, for a Enterprise Unlimited line.
 
I've been with TMobile for ~16 years (was grandfathered in the Simple Choice Unlimited) until recently when I switched to the Experience 5G Plus for $130 (including taxes) for 4 (2 of which are ON US from TMobile) lines (all unlimited) including, satellite connectivity, Standard Netflix and Doordash pass (yearly)

I, too, buy my devices from OEM outright.

I'd recommend chatting with retention.
 
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