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If you're travelling, I find it hard to beat Fi. You literally land in a new country, turn your phone back on and you get a "Welcome to [country] - your data r

If you're travelling, I find it hard to beat Fi. You literally land in a new country, turn your phone back on and you get a "Welcome to [country] - your data rate is the same" message almost anywhere. Personally - I've flown from Taiwan to Brazil to Amsterdam and then back to the US and I don't have to think about my phone. It just works. --- Outside of the travel use-case, I would also probably pick something else, but if I know I'm going to be travelling, I'll switch back to Fi.

zamnos 4y ago
With eSim and the Airalo app, international travel is fairly painless. It costs a few bucks and a couple minutes to setup (which can be done while waiting at the airport to leave) to get a data-only sim for your destination county. If you're paying for an expensive domestic account for international reasons instead of a cheaper $40/mo eg Mint mobile plan, it might be worth investigating theirs plans to see if it would end up saving money, given your travel requirements.
- horsawlarway 4y ago
  Fi is $40 a month for the more expensive plans, plus $10/gb until the plan hits 10gb, at which case it's free but they might throttle. And the key thing is I just don't have to think about it. I can't forget to register a new account, I don't have to worry about esoteric sign up requirements for certain countries (ex: Brazil wants a CPF for fucking everything), and I can't get stuck without a connection and then not be able to setup the next step.
withinboredom 4y ago
I still have my Sprint plan. This is how it works by default. (Sprint + gvoice = google fi; before gfi you could merge your gvoice and sprint accounts which was really cool. Then they cancelled that and started gfi) Since the TMo merger, I suspect gfi is still using the Sprint stuff.
- judge2020 4y ago
  > Since the TMo merger, I suspect gfi is still using the Sprint stuff. Since before the merger, it used Sprint and T-Mobile, in addition to US Cellular https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/17/googles-project-fi-now-caps-data-bills-at-60/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/17/googles-project-fi-now-cap... (ctrl-f sprint)

zamnos 4y ago

With eSim and the Airalo app, international travel is fairly painless. It costs a few bucks and a couple minutes to setup (which can be done while waiting at the airport to leave) to get a data-only sim for your destination county. If you're paying for an expensive domestic account for international reasons instead of a cheaper $40/mo eg Mint mobile plan, it might be worth investigating theirs plans to see if it would end up saving money, given your travel requirements.

horsawlarway 4y ago
Fi is $40 a month for the more expensive plans, plus $10/gb until the plan hits 10gb, at which case it's free but they might throttle. And the key thing is I just don't have to think about it. I can't forget to register a new account, I don't have to worry about esoteric sign up requirements for certain countries (ex: Brazil wants a CPF for fucking everything), and I can't get stuck without a connection and then not be able to setup the next step.

withinboredom 4y ago

I still have my Sprint plan. This is how it works by default. (Sprint + gvoice = google fi; before gfi you could merge your gvoice and sprint accounts which was really cool. Then they cancelled that and started gfi) Since the TMo merger, I suspect gfi is still using the Sprint stuff.

judge2020 4y ago
> Since the TMo merger, I suspect gfi is still using the Sprint stuff. Since before the merger, it used Sprint and T-Mobile, in addition to US Cellular https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/17/googles-project-fi-now-caps-data-bills-at-60/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/17/googles-project-fi-now-cap... (ctrl-f sprint)