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Hi:
Up until now, I have been using T-Mobile ever since the XDA came out.
Used a "visorphone" before that. I do NOT use T-Mobile's Internet access (T-zones) ever since I got hit with a $180+ overage charge the first month I used it.
So.
Here is my issue:
Starting a few months ago, I noticed that, even though I do NOT use T-Mobile for any Internet access (I call up my own ISP instead from the XDA), T-Mobile are charging me something like $.50 for every email sent or received from the XDA using my own ISP. I suppose they monitor the traffic or something. When I protested that they shouldn't charge me for anything Internet-related, only the minutes used to call my ISP, they told me basically that they don't give a damn what I think, and that I will continue to be charged $.50 for every email. They show up on my bill as "e-note" to the phone number "500."
I think that's ridiculous and possibly illegal since it doesn't involve their servers or their services at all, but I don't have the energy to deal with their untrained "Wireless Data Group." It would take years to explain this to them. Just getting them on the phone took over 1 hour. This is partly a warning post, that this is what T-Mobile is doing, and we should know about it. So, I am looking into switching to AT&T.
My questions for anyone reading this:
1) anyone else have that billing issue with t-mobile?
2) is at&t any better? do they charge for internet traffic even if you haven't signed up for their services?
3) i don't think i have simlock issues, the unlock util from this site says that it's already unlocked. rom is 4.00.21 ENG, radio stack 6.24.00
from yorch.net.
4) is there anything i should know? won't this t-mobile build of "windows mobile 2003" rom work with at&t ?
any info appreciated, you can email thomas at pullen.com (removed the @ for the spam bots).
thanks!
TMO is pretty bad, iv experienced their levels of ignorance too, but once in a while, u can incounter sumone who knows alot about what they do
you should have never used tzones (if it wasnt unlimited) for transfering big amounts of data, thats why u got charged so much, for going over the allowd data amount
when connecting to your own ISP, are u connecting using THEIR # ? ... if so, then i dont know where TMO gets these ideas 4 charging u extra + the phone call :roll:
to unlock u need to go back to a 2002 rom, with the unlock software
ur build will work, but it would be better to switch to 4.00.05 , since u wont need all the useless TMO apps and what not
Hey tpullen,
Sorry to hear about your terrible time with T-Mobile.
Q: What type of plan do you have with T-Mobile?
If its only a voice plan with no data the .50 sounds about right and will be the same if you move over to AT&T. As a matter of fact AT&T's data charges are higher.
It doesn't matter that you're calling your own ISP, the fact still remains you're sending/receiving data on a voice only plan. :wink:
HTH
thanks
hey:
thanks for the replies. to answer your questions:
i had the t-mobile 3,000 minutes for $49 plan. it is only free long distance for the southeast u.s.; i think it's called a 'neighborhood' plan.
no data at all in my plan; i would call my own isp and surf the web and check email. only about 3 months ago t-mobile started charging me to check email, but not for the web. my complaint is that i am using my own isp, and the call comes out of my minutes. yes, it's sending data with a voice-only plan, but hey! i have a dial-up phone line, nothing fancy, a land line in my house. it's voice-only. if i plug a modem into my home phone line and call my isp, should i expect to get a bill from my phone company for every email i look at? to my way of thinking, and anyone is free to disagree, if i'm not USING your services then i don't want to PAY for your services. unless it is a t-mobile email, web, or proxy server i'm talking to, i don't expect to pay t-mobile. the minutes were already being deducted from my available minutes. that's all i should have to pay.
i don't think that's so outrageous.
i did unlock my phone with the xda dev build, then went back to the same tmobile windows mobile 2003 build. i wasn't sure if the xda "stays unlocked" once you unlock it and then put a new rom on, but it does.
now i have an at&t sim, and it works well enough, but the sort-of-funny thing is that you apparantly can NOT just call your own isp with at&t.
i can't seem to get a connection to work. so i don't know. maybe i will stay with at&t since they, according to their sales literature anyway, have a data network that's like 3 times faster than t-mobile's data network.
of course it's more $ for them.
whatever the case, i have 30 days to try at&t with no obligation, cancel any time, owe them nothing. everyone has that option right now, in fact, due to the new ftc "local number port" thing happening.
i'll let ya'll know how it goes if i stick with at&t. i can always stay with t-mobile, but i'm not sure if that's a good idea.
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tpullen said:
maybe i will stay with at&t since they, according to their sales literature anyway, have a data network that's like 3 times faster than t-mobile's data network. of course it's more $ for them.
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Sounds like you're talking about the EDGE service. Yeah, like 4 times the cost of T-Mobile's unlimited plan. I think I'll stick to the cheaper slower service.
tpullen said:
whatever the case, i have 30 days to try at&t with no obligation, cancel any time, owe them nothing. everyone has that option right now, in fact, due to the new ftc "local number port" thing happening.
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Owe them nothing?! You might want to read that literature again. You'll not pay a cancellation fee nor an activation fee, but you will owe them for the prorated amount of time you had service, and any other additional fees that you use. This is pretty standard in the wireless industry. So if you go over your prorated minutes for the month, you owe them airtime charges. Happened to me, so just be careful.
bye bye at&t
hi arkhangel:
yes, you are correct:
4. Every new customer gets a 30 day risk free trial. When you purchase a phone and activate service at an AT&T Wireless store or at attwireless.com, you can return your undamaged phone for a refund within the first 30 days and pay only for airtime and usage charges. It’s just one more way we can earn your trust.
so it is not without charge, and thank god i only made one 6-minute call.
as far as the EDGE network goes, it was so-so...i only viewed 2 webpages with it, they loaded pretty much as quickly as with any other data service over the xda...and the funny thing is that it consumed apparantly almost 2 mb to do so.
i am pretty frustrated now, the at&t customer service has been pretty rotten, but t-mobile isn't too great either.
i'm calling verizon next, to compare...
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They show up on my bill as "e-note" to the phone number "500."
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The phone is programmed to send an SMS to T-Mobile every time you reboot your PPCPE. These show up as e-notes to 500 just as you describe. Compare the timing of your email use vs. the timing of your reboots and see where the e-notes are coming from. I think you can purchase a bundle of a bunch (500?) of SMS messages (aka e-notes) for something like $2.99, so you could cap your cost that way.
You should also be aware that T-Mobile has gone to a flat rate for GPRS at $19.95 for unlimited internet. The comparable plan with AT&T is something like $80.
Coming from WinMO 6.5 HD2, I'm nervous about these 500mb tarrifs for data.
T-Mobile has a 500mb limit, with unlimited browsing.
However the 2 are not seperate, so once you have used 500mb in total, you are restricted to browsing only.
No RRS
No Podcasts
No POP3 email
No Twitter (some apps only)
No Google Maps
No Internet radio (!)
Push mail seems to work, as does Opera for browsing.
The HTC RSS app has no download mananger, so my weekly podcast download is about 80mb, but by the 11th of the month I've already over 500mb, as any minor failure during dowload deletes the file and starts again.
What's your SGS2/Android experience in terms of data usage?
En_croute
i easily rack up 3GB a month
but if you disable data completely, and only do WiFi you should be safe
Apparantly we are in the 5% of users
We are called abusers by TMobile
Asked why a we couldn't buy more data time, I was met with :
a) Ohh, difficult to set up to set that up
b) The masts the masts, think of the masts
c) Abusers spoil the t-mobile experience for everyone else
PAC code here we come.
Hello THREE
I have my phone set up to use Wifi when I am at home and WiFi when I am at work. Obviously I set all my podcasts and High Usage apps to Download during those times (Using Tasker)
Outside of that I generally use about 50MB to 100MB on Google Maps, Email, other general background syncing stuff.
I think if you do all of your major syncing over a WiFi connection (Either yours or your neighbours ) then you will be hard pushed to use 500MB whilst "on the go"
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Apparantly we are in the 5% of users
We are called abusers by TMobile
Asked why a we couldn't buy more data time, I was met with :
a) Ohh, difficult to set up to set that up
b) The masts the masts, think of the masts
c) Abusers spoil the t-mobile experience for everyone else
PAC code here we come.
Hello THREE
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I'm assuming you're in the UK as you mentioned 3...
T-Mobile would never say any of the above answers, you're either
a. Trolling
or
b. Making it up
Claiming T-Mobile weren't willing to take more money off you is borderline laughable.
Have fun with Three, quite possibly the most inept customer serviced network i've ever had the displeasure of dealing with.
Edit, just thought i'd add this, if you want details on how to sort out a proper unlimited data package on T-Mobile, PM me.
Actually he really did infer these things!
1. He claimed it would be difficult to set up (programme). I pointed out that as I was on 1gb currently, and the FUP (Browsing only) kicks in after that, it should not be too hard to allow 500mb boosters to be bought ad hoc, or as part of a regular package.
2. He claimed the 5% of users were "ruining the experience" for other customers, hence the 500mb limit. I pointed out that a) if we were all going into FUP, the service would still be "ruined" for the first 1/2 of the month, and b) Why sell media phones when the network is not fit for purpose.
3. And as Orage are selling 750mb & 500mb bolt ons, why can't T-Mobile. He said 5oomb for new customers and 1gb is the maximum, on older tarrifs, and the 3gb tarrif was not available (since Feb 2011).
I was spitting feathers, hence the PAC code comment.
I did consider Three, but went with 1gb data & Flext 35, and will use the first 7 days to asess my data usage under Android during the 7 day cooling off period.
Handset due tomorrow.
I'll PM you, as I have those 7 days....
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I'll reply here as well so others can see this. If you take out a t-mobile contract with a data booster (those apparently unlimited 5quid ones) call them straight away and say you want to upgrade your data package to web and walk plus for the ENTIRE length of your contract.
They should offer to simply replace your 5 booster with web n walk plus, if they don't, tell them that someone in the t-mobile shop told you it can be done as long as you take it out for the contract duration.
This also will work if you have no data package as well, they'll just charge you the 5 quid a month.
The benefit? HSDPA is not enabled on the standard unlimited boosters, but is on web n walk plus
Hopefully some people can make use of this.
Burko
Even better is WebNWalk Max as the plus is also capped.
All of the above is the reason why I'm also jumping ship to three.
I currently pay T-mobile £40pcm and they want more off me just because I don't think it's fair that they cap my data at 350Kb max.
T-Mob in UK is a joke for data speeds (unless you pay extra on top of your normal tariff price)
So when working out where to go. Make sure you take the extra cost into account and check not only data caps on download amounts but also data caps on speed.
Plus is capped in volume of downloads, not speed. Obviously different people have different data needs, but for me, web n walk plus is more than enough. (with the benefit of not being charged if you go over the limit) there is no"one size fits all" data package, I just thought I'd highlight one option that's available.
Burko
According to O2 I've used 1.99GB As of 23:28 on 12 May 2011 so far this month. Good thing I have unlimited data allowance.
I am happy user of SGSII for about 6 months. After I took this, 2 owners of company where I work also took 2 SGSII phones, but mostly they kids use it. Now they have been on winter vacation abroad, and they came back with bills of 2.000 Euros and 1.500 Euros. Now they are angry, saying that: a) they didn't make it; b) that carrier who installed software (???) made something wrong; c) android sucks d) they are not stupid to use roaming while abroad ... etc, etc. I am 99% sure that their kids used data transfer in order to play games, or something similar, but ... I am just wandering - is there any possibility that phone makes some kind of data transfer by himself ? Even my managing director now launches story that his phone (Samsung galaxy note) is turning on data transfer, altough he turned it of. Can someone who really knows something about this ?
Regards,
ZZ
You've said it perfectly yourself - you said 99% sure, I'll go 100%.
I'm no expert , but I've got 3 kids.
Kids+Phone+Abroad=Big bills. I speak from experience (I'd kill my eldest if it wasn't for tiresome rules....).
They did it. Your colleagues are fooling themselves. And not very convincingly either.
They must have left background data on, and some of the kids must have enabled data! Thats all they need. If they don't have a roaming data plan the cost for mb can be very high, depending on the country they travel to.
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Hey, usually, data rates are as high as 15 to 20$ per MB. If the phone checks for updates by itself, or if they have corporate mail, it is possible that they get high bills, add to that the fact some operators charge on PDP context activation (even if you didnt access internet, but just using their radio resources attempting to...)
If kids had played, it would worsen the case as well. But i think that the phone owners can ask for the data CDRs from the carrier, they mostly can provide the URLs accessed as well as the charge
Hey guys, I know there are other threads like this in the 7 inch but "this may be crazy, so call me maybe." but all terrible pop culture jokes aside, I am planning on using a GT 10.1 as a phone. I current have a Droid Charge on Verizon, which I am fond of, but I am always looking for something new/different.
My plan is to save lots of money by doing this, be quite unique, and functional.
Yesterday I purchased a GT10.1 with service capabilities (Is that the 10.1v?) and it should be here next week. And no I did not pay $800 from Verizon. Also, my main reason for this is I'm that weird person that doesn't like their phone in their pocket. I am always checking for it because I can't feel it. With this, I will always have it in my hand or somewhere close. *NOTE* I'm not attached to it, I just like to know where it is at all times.
I was mainly posting to see if anyone has done this with the 10.1 and any problems they ran across, or tips, tricks, anything to help me out on this transition. I will be dropping my unlimited plan to save money, and getting a 1 or 2GB plan, seeing as I am on WiFi 99% of the time being at a college campus.
If anyone has other program suggestions than the following, please step in. That is why i'm posting! If all possible I would like to keep my phone number, I'm not sure if that is possible due to me switching contracts and not having a mobile plan.
As of now, I plan on doing the following:
Galaxy Tab 10.1 16GB
-Caller: GrooveIP (Uses Google Voice) (Or should I use something along the lines of skype?)
-Messenger: N/A (Need one, Not sure what yet)
-3G/4G card from my Charge
I will root and theme etc, that's a given!
I know this is a giant wall of text, I tried to break it up a bit, but thanks for reading and I hope I get some good feedback and helpful tips.
I do something similar but not on the tab. I have an unlocked galaxy nexus gsm phone, no contract needed. I use tmobile prepaid, $30 per month for 5gb, at 4g (hspa) speed, then unlimited throttled. But it comes with only 100 minutes per month, so must be supplemented with calls over data. I have used grooveip and talkatone. The free talkatone app seemed to be about the same quality as grooveip. The monthly $2 high quality talkatone may be a little better. The quality of Skype is much much better than both, and since most everyone I talk to have Skype I just use that for free. But if you get a google voice number, you can use grooveip or talkatone as a phone too. Google voice will also work for sms. I only use that app, never the phone messenger app, I like it so much. No mms though. Also keep in mind data speeds matter. With 4g speeds you are ok. May have trouble in a moving car, I'm not a big talker so I haven't really noticed. At 3g speeds it will probably still work but quality will be worse. No way to use it if you drop to edge. So this is what I do on the phone. If I need data on the tab, I turn on the wifi widget in the nexus phone and voila I have data on my wifi tab. No expensive tablet/contract, no expensive monthly bills, $30/ month gets me what I need. You do have to pay a premium to escape the carrier contract, but think how fast you make back the extra cost of the phone. The galaxy nexus with jelly bean is only $350 in the google play store, not a bad deal at all.
Thanks a ton Kisrita, I bought my GT10.1v for $350, which seemed like a pretty good deal. And TMobile in our area does not have 4g, and what little service they have, sucks. And that helps me out a lot, I'd like to use skype a lot, but the hassle of this day and age at least for my generation, is not a lot of people USE the Skype on their phone. They have it, but they don't have it open to be "online" everyone just texts via messenger, so in theory, to communicate, I also have to be on a "Messenger" but knowing that GV can work for SMS is a good thing.
Sorry, nevermind, didn't read carefully enough.
All is good. Thanks for the free bump atleast!
Well, My tablet gets here today. Still looking for some answers!
I don't know if you knew this, but the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (GT-P51xx) works as a phone and for SMS.
www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytab2/10.1/mobile/index.html?type=find
However, if you must go with the 10.1v, you have the option of doing the SMS mod on it and using Whatsapp as a primary messenger. It's fairly popular and a lot of people have it. For phone calls, I believe work is on to enable phone calls, and it may be possible some time in the very near future. Until then, you could always use Skype with a Skype paid number for incoming and outgoing calls through 3G/4G. Google Voice also has some interesting similar options.
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No SIM card?
I'm not sure if this applies. Have 10.1, but it has no visible SIM or SDCard setup. Would like to see if some kinda way to run my T Mobile service through it. Is this possible if I can't put in a sim card?
Anyone using bought nexus 6p with project Fi deal. If so how was your experience
I did, I am actually using the Fi network and financing the device through Fi. To start with, the Fi network seems to be great so far (could be just my area though). I have full signal no matter where I go and haven't dropped a call yet. Download speeds seem to be anywhere between 20-30Mbits down and 10-20 Mbits up.
The ordering process was simple, the app is great, and Google upgraded me to overnight shipping free of charge. I already installed TWRP and PureNexus custom ROM, everything works flawlessly! All-in-all I'm very impressed with Google and Fi. As long as it stays like this, I will more than likely use Fi for the foreseeable future.
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I did, I am actually using the Fi network and financing the device through Fi. To start with, the Fi network seems to be great so far (could be just my area though). I have full signal no matter where I go and haven't dropped a call yet. Download speeds seem to be anywhere between 20-30Mbits down and 10-20 Mbits up.
The ordering process was simple, the app is great, and Google upgraded me to overnight shipping free of charge. I already installed TWRP and PureNexus custom ROM, everything works flawlessly! All-in-all I'm very impressed with Google and Fi. As long as it stays like this, I will more than likely use Fi for the foreseeable future.
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What are the benefits of ordering the phone as a bundle with Fi?
Loving Fi with it.
I pre-ordered through Fi the very day I got my invite from them on 10/16. I bought a 32gb graphite outright. I have LTE more or less everywhere and I get similar speeds as posted above. Google also upgraded me to overnight shipping free of charge. Honestly not bad.
Aside from that, when I signed up on their site there was no option for nexus protect like when you order from play store. I inquired with Google and Fi does not yet have device protection, but when it is available it will be a monthly charge on your bill (no price available yet). It will cover the device as long as you have it on the service from what I was told.
He had no other timeframe besides a few months. You can also call to have your email added to a list to be notified when device protection is available.
Call quality is never an issue and I really love the phone. I love the FI app as well. It makes everything pretty simple. No complaints so far.
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What are the benefits of ordering the phone as a bundle with Fi?
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There are no added benefits, order through Google/Fi or Huawei, it's all the same phone, only difference was I was looking to get out of my current Carrier and decided to try out Project Fi. So far I do not regret my decision.
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There are no added benefits, order through Google/Fi or Huawei, it's all the same phone, only difference was I was looking to get out of my current Carrier and decided to try out Project Fi. So far I do not regret my decision.
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I will try it end of this month. I suppose it is worth it only if you use low amount of data.
Ordering through Fi gives you the option of 0% financing for 24 months.
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I will try it end of this month. I suppose it is worth it only if you use low amount of data.
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Bingo. I love the concept and used fi for a few months, however the economics do not make sense if your data hawg just quite yet IMO.
I already have an unlimited plan w/T-Mobile and coverage for where I travel didn't merit the switch at this time.
I got on Fi with my 32GB Nexus 6P.
I was previously on AT&T on a friend's account since he got a pretty good discount through his previous employer, and splitting a shared data plan ended up being pretty good for me too. I was only paying hi $60 a month. I barely used any data, so I went with Fi.
I requested the invite and ordered the SIM right before I purchased the 6P. I bought the phone through the Play Store instead of through Fi. I was debating going with the 5X, but went with the 6P. Since I had the SIM before I had the phone, I just filled out the account information on the Fi webpage and when I got the phone, slapped the SIM in it, fired it up and went through the transfer. Took about 2 hours to be complete, but it went smoothly.
Since I'm mostly at home or at the office, I haven't had much time outside. Works fine on wifi. Only made a couple calls, so far it's been fine. I've got a coworker that likes the idea so much, he's getting on it soon, too.
i bought my 6p outright from google with the plan to transfer my work account to it, but verizon gave me the run around. i figured i'd try FI since it so cheap, but worrried about service since it uses tmobile and sprint towers. Fortunately it had far exceeded my expectations. the week i have had it has had full service when my verizon note 3 has had very little or no service. only once has it lost service, in the middle of nowhere, which is also a complete dead zone for everyone else . i have no complaints, and love the fact my boss gets angry everytime his verizon s6 edge doesnt have service and he has to use my phone. my experience is in the triangle area in north carolina.
I had a few hiccups setting up the service and getting SMS to work with Messenger instead of Hangouts, but Google Support was available immediately on chat and helped resolve the issue (I figured out the SMS problem before them). Their email support is definitely not as knowledgeable as the chat folks from my experience.
I haven't ventured anywhere too crazy to make an in-depth statement about the service quality, but I had TMO before... so I wasn't expecting it to be significantly different.
My biggest complaint so far is not having a standard greeting option for voicemail... meaning you have to leave an actual voice recording for the greeting. More of a personal annoyance I suppose. The nice thing about their voicemail service is that the visual voicemail translates the message to text.
One other thing I noticed... I couldn't list files on my FTP server running at home via the project fi network, but I could over a remote wifi network. Also, seems to be an issue connecting to my VPN configuration at my house over the fi network which I believe has to do with IPv6 implementation on TMO. There is a way to modify the APN on TMO to correct this, but I don't think there is a way to do this with Fi.
I ordered the SIM card separate from the phone.
Does call forwarding work on project fi? I plan to forward all calls of another line to my project fi account
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I had a few hiccups setting up the service and getting SMS to work with Messenger instead of Hangouts, but Google Support was available immediately on chat and helped resolve the issue (I figured out the SMS problem before them). Their email support is definitely not as knowledgeable as the chat folks from my experience.
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What did you do to fix the SMS issue on Hangouts, I've got the same problem, slow or no SMS unless I use Messenger.
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What did you do to fix the SMS issue on Hangouts, I've got the same problem, slow or no SMS unless I use Messenger.
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That wasn't exactly my issue. Basically, I found that there was two settings to change to make Messenger the SMS app. Even though I had Messenger set at the default, I was still receiving incoming messages in Hangouts. If you go in the Hangouts app, settings, your account ([email protected]), then uncheck the box next to 'Messages' under where it says "Project Fi calls and SMS - your phone number". That wasn't intuitive because where I was originally going was in the settings of Messenger and setting that as the default app for SMS... which I believe is still necessary.
Not sure if this will solve your issue, but I haven't had problems since changing it. Maybe clear the hangouts and/or Messenger data too?
Edit: Sorry, seems like you want to use Hangouts as the SMS app? I wanted to use Messenger.
I ordered the 6p 128gb direct from Fi they upgraded shipping to over night for free. Had a few problems with Boost mobile porting my number but the Fi rep conferenced called them to port it over. A few hours later everything worked. I live about 80 miles from DC and travel there quite a bit. I noticed on my LG F7 because of all the wifi connections I use I was only using about .5 gb per month even though I listen to a lot of music and watch a lot of video. The last month i experimented with the F7 and turned off wifi and I used 2.5 gb of data. I figured why pay Boost for the extra 2gb when I am not using it, and Boost phone suck even though their rate is good. With Fi I only pay for the Data I use so it should average about 25 per month instead of the 35 I was paying Boost. The Nexus 6p wifi connects faster than the f7 also so that might save an additional amount. I have travelled to DC several times and my Data usage was 49 mb next to nothing since every where I go has wifi. The connections were flawless and the features on the phone are fantastic. FI also says it has a relationship out there for wifi networks. I dont know who that is but Google should have a lot of connections available. I also have a xfinity password from my best friends network so that should increase coverage.
I would recommend Fi to anyone that has the coverage of the Sprint and Tmob. networks. It would help to have a concentrated area such as Wash DC so as to take advantage of Wifi. I am not looking back.
I am using Fi right now in Louisiana.....been only a few days but so far it has been good.
I'll be using Fi in Puerto Rico tomorrow. I'll be posting a review soon.
Even though I got invited to Fi, my data usage is the issue for me. I currently have "unlimited" data with T-Mobile which is why I haven't budged yet. On average a month, I use 12-15 GB's a month. I do a lot of web surfing and watching videos.
And its 2 lines for $100 for unlimited text,talk and data. Can't beat that at the moment. If Fi offers unlimited data in the future, I might consider it.
I ordered my phone through FI. But they have a big issue with numbers ported to FI from Google Voice. You can get SMS messages, but you can't send to some carriers. You can send if you use the GV app to send, but that's clumsy. They are working on it, but have no ETA for an actual fix yet. So I cancelled.
But the whole 'pay for only what you use' thing sounds great. But it makes you very conscious of every MB you use. Do you want to stream music on this trip? It's going to cost you a dollar. It just felt too much like the old days of paying 35 cents per minute for every call you made.