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When I switched to Google Fi, my phone bill dropped from $140 a month (Verizon, two people) to $60 a month (1 person), including the monthly finance charge for
by bovermyer 7y ago
When I switched to Google Fi, my phone bill dropped from $140 a month (Verizon, two people) to $60 a month (1 person), including the monthly finance charge for my phone.
Now, with two people and no phone financing, our bill is a combined $80 a month most months.
I don't see why I'd use this Unlimited plan, given that it's much more expensive.
Also, unrelated: Google Fi has been amazing when travelling abroad (Dominican Republic and Thailand, specifically). Full signal and no added charges everywhere there.
Sadly, my wife and I are planning to go back to Verizon just to get iPhones.
- JoshTriplett 7y ago> Sadly, my wife and I are planning to go back to Verizon just to get iPhones. Fi supports iPhones somewhat. The coverage isn't quite as good, due to lack of support for using multiple networks simultaneously, but it works.
- saghm 7y agoFWIW, I get better coverage with just T-Mobile on my OnePlus 6T than I did from Sprint/T-Mobile when I was on a Pixel phone; I generally had to manually switch the credit carrier whenever it selected Sprint because it was basically unusable due to how slow it was.
- tdewitt 7y agoMy phone is a Walmart special $30/no but my wife, on Fi, spends the max (~$90). She streams music for our kid, while driving. Dropping her to $70/mo is a win for me. Obviously everyone is different but I just wanted to point out the per person cap in a normal plan can be higher than the unlimited. I converted her over yesterday.
- sliken 7y agoIf you have youtube red google will download the 500 most common songs to your phone, which really helps minimize the bandwidth for streaming audio. You can even edit playlists on the desktop and play those playlists on the car. Said playlist will auto download to your phone.
- ericd 7y agoI use Fi on an iPhone, you don't have to switch if you don't want to - I certainly wouldn't.
- exabrial 7y agoSadly, it's hard to live outside the iMessage ecosystem. Android has much nicer and affordable hardware
- cptskippy 7y agoI pay $145 a month on T-Mobile for 6 lines with "unlimited" everything, international data, and discount international call/text.
- joecool1029 7y agoAround the same for me as well. And I do find the "unlimited" is pretty much as advertised even with deprioritization since I live in a rural area. My average use on one of the lines is 250GB/mo. It usually sits around 35mbit down, 5mbit up... this compares favorably with cable options in my area.
- cptskippy 7y agoI don't think I've ever been throttled though I go over the 2GB kickback limit every so often and it costs me $10.
- mnm1 7y agoDoes that include taxes and fees? Does it include unlimited tethering? I'm paying the same for 4 lines with unlimited everything except only 2gb per line for tethering. Seems like I might be getting ripped off...
- cptskippy 7y agoT-Mobile One plans include all of that in the price. The only fees are on international charges. I'm not sure what the official stance is on tethering but I think it's just throttled. I bring my own device and I have never experienced throttling or denial of tethering thought so Idk.
- outworlder 7y agoCan you even sign up for T-Mobile One anymore? I thought they had replaced it with 'Magento' or whatever and grandfathered One.
- dwg 7y ago
- imgabe 7y agoFi officially supports iPhones as of a few months ago.
- bovermyer 7y agoI... did not know that.