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Any clue if this affects prepaid customers as well? I really have to stay on my toes with these carriers, my bill always creeps up over the years.

jabroni_salad 3y ago
I can't speak for at&t but tmobile prepaid does not get an autopay discount at all so they are technically not affected.
leesalminen 3y ago
We switched to US Mobile prepaid data pools a few months ago. $9/line + $2/GB per month. I found some code online [0] that runs every hour and purchases an additional GB if my remaining amount falls below a threshold. It’s been working great for us. We dropped our bill for 2 lines from ~$100/mo to $21/mo. [0] https://github.com/dbrand666/usmobile-lifeguard/tree/main https://github.com/dbrand666/usmobile-lifeguard/tree/main
- judge2020 3y ago
  Although your service might be slowed down for people paying more via first-party. This is an informative post about the QCI: https://fixverizon.com/2023/01/12/qci-prioritization-for-carriers-and-their-mvnos/ https://fixverizon.com/2023/01/12/qci-prioritization-for-car... if you don't feel like your service is slow during the times you use your wireless, then there's no harm in using MVNOs.
  - leesalminen 3y ago
    Yes, of course there can be QCI stuff happening. We don't go to big events where you'd typically run into de-prioritization, but of course, YMMV.
- dylan604 3y ago
  ($9 x 2) => $21 - $18 = $3. You can pay $2/GB per month, and they let you buy .5GB? That's crazy they don't force whole increments. Also, you're only using 3GB per month of data? That's crazy too!
  - leesalminen 3y ago
    ($9 x 2 lines) + ($2 x 1GB) = $20 + $sales_tax = ~$21 To be clear, the minimum increment one can purchase is 1 GB. We're in a bit of a weird situation where we aren't in the US the majority of the time, so most months we don't use any data off our US plan. If we do end up in the US then that bit of code keeps buying us more data 1GB at a time as needed. Another cool thing is that our USMobile eSIM uses the 4G data from our local eSIM so that we can still make/receive calls/SMS on our US line from anywhere. It treats the local 4G like WiFi Calling. Pretty dope.
- Terr_ 3y ago
  Every time I look at major carrier's plan-offerings, I'm kind of shocked that they present "basic" or "essential" plans which are so expensive with so many gigabytes of mobile-data. If feels like a forceful marketing push, to trick customers into constantly escalating their idea of "normal usage" until they're streaming video 24/7.

jabroni_salad 3y ago

I can't speak for at&t but tmobile prepaid does not get an autopay discount at all so they are technically not affected.

leesalminen 3y ago

We switched to US Mobile prepaid data pools a few months ago. $9/line + $2/GB per month. I found some code online [0] that runs every hour and purchases an additional GB if my remaining amount falls below a threshold. It’s been working great for us. We dropped our bill for 2 lines from ~$100/mo to $21/mo. [0] https://github.com/dbrand666/usmobile-lifeguard/tree/main https://github.com/dbrand666/usmobile-lifeguard/tree/main

judge2020 3y ago
Although your service might be slowed down for people paying more via first-party. This is an informative post about the QCI: https://fixverizon.com/2023/01/12/qci-prioritization-for-carriers-and-their-mvnos/ https://fixverizon.com/2023/01/12/qci-prioritization-for-car... if you don't feel like your service is slow during the times you use your wireless, then there's no harm in using MVNOs.
- leesalminen 3y ago
  Yes, of course there can be QCI stuff happening. We don't go to big events where you'd typically run into de-prioritization, but of course, YMMV.
dylan604 3y ago
($9 x 2) => $21 - $18 = $3. You can pay $2/GB per month, and they let you buy .5GB? That's crazy they don't force whole increments. Also, you're only using 3GB per month of data? That's crazy too!
- leesalminen 3y ago
  ($9 x 2 lines) + ($2 x 1GB) = $20 + $sales_tax = ~$21 To be clear, the minimum increment one can purchase is 1 GB. We're in a bit of a weird situation where we aren't in the US the majority of the time, so most months we don't use any data off our US plan. If we do end up in the US then that bit of code keeps buying us more data 1GB at a time as needed. Another cool thing is that our USMobile eSIM uses the 4G data from our local eSIM so that we can still make/receive calls/SMS on our US line from anywhere. It treats the local 4G like WiFi Calling. Pretty dope.
Terr_ 3y ago
Every time I look at major carrier's plan-offerings, I'm kind of shocked that they present "basic" or "essential" plans which are so expensive with so many gigabytes of mobile-data. If feels like a forceful marketing push, to trick customers into constantly escalating their idea of "normal usage" until they're streaming video 24/7.