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I had a FreedomPop mifi box for 18 months which was great, cost me about $60 from memory for the hardware and a few dollars/mo in fees when I upgraded something
by rb808 9y ago
I had a FreedomPop mifi box for 18 months which was great, cost me about $60 from memory for the hardware and a few dollars/mo in fees when I upgraded something. It stopped when Sprint turned off Wimax.
I think there is a big market for people that want to pay $5-$15/mo for a small data only plan for people that will use Wifi on their phone 90% of the time but want to use mobile data just occasionally. Most of the major plans start way over that.
I see they're selling data-only SIMs for phones. Is that new? I thought Apple & Google insisted phones must have plan with a phone line. (If its good I think I'll go back to data only (with Google Voice))
- danellis 9y agoGoogle Voice just used to use data to set up a PSTN call. Has something changed?
- limeblack 9y agoI think you mean Google Hangouts if you are taking a about the app(which is confusing and frankly my work on both on Android) and incoming calls only works on Android.
- danellis 9y ago> I think you mean Google Hangouts No, Google Voice predates Google Hangouts.
- limeblack 9y agoI misread the comment. > Google Voice just used to use data to set up a PSTN call. Has something changed? Google Voice did not originally support data only calling(VOIP) like I said read the comment above me. He is supporting what I was saying. > Yes. About 4 years ago they integrated full VoIP calling into something they call the Hangouts Dialer. Outbound works well, although I often have to initiate a call twice due to setup connectivity weirdness on LTE. Inbound basically never works, so I leave the PSTN forwarding on for that reason. I have been on Google Voice for a fairly long time. Google Voice used to only supports PSTN calling although it uses data to trigger the call.
- rb808 9y agoExactly - I can have a data-only plan to receive calls on a number.
- stanleydrew 9y agoYes. About 4 years ago they integrated full VoIP calling into something they call the Hangouts Dialer. Outbound works well, although I often have to initiate a call twice due to setup connectivity weirdness on LTE. Inbound basically never works, so I leave the PSTN forwarding on for that reason.
- Aaargh20318 9y ago> I see they're selling data-only SIMs. Is that new? I thought Apple & Google insisted phones must have plan with a phone line. I'm not sure why you think Google or Apple can dictate terms to operators who do not even sell their phones. Data-only SIM's are quite common, they are used in tablets, 4G USB-sticks for laptops, portable 4G-wifi routers, etc.
- malchow 9y agoCan one use a data-only SIM in an iPhone? I seem to recall trying this once, and it failed.
- rdschouw 9y agoYes, I've a data-only SIM from T-Mobile US in my iPhone. Works great. $35 / 6GB and comes with datastash and BingOn.