Is it cause of coverage, download speeds, was it cheap, did you trust them more, do they have some bonus on top of phone data, or was it just what your family had and you got it too?
I think it depends on where you live but mine is ATT Prepaid. I pay $300 a year for 16gb, though I only use <5GB month. I have tried:
- RedPocket (Verizon) - Depolarized too much for data
- Google Fi - Might be better now but when it switched from a Sprint and TMobile tower it used to drop the call… I havent tried it in many years
- Verizon - My favorite but I wanted to stop paying so much $$$ Mint - Cheapest plan I had because of sale ($7/month for 6 months). But TMobile service for me where I am isn’t great so wasn’t worth.
- Cricket - Loved it but just a little more expensive than ATT Prepaid
US mobile. The data pool pricing model works out to be pretty price competitive among the mvno’s for the way we use two lines. They also claim to be the only mvno that doesn’t get low priority on congested towers.
Tmobile because I’m not going to ration my phone use like some kind of third world country farmer. They have been on unlimited everything since forever.
Mint Mobile because paying up front for ~$180/year= 365 days of Talk/SMS/5Gb-5G/$15-month.
Been with em since it launched. And back then it was only 2Gb-4G/$15-month.
I believe new users can get any plan for the same intro price for various plans for the first 3 months.
Also has “Unlimited” 40Gb and “Unnecessary” 60Gb for extreme data peoples.
me never using more than 2Gb
Unlimited plan incl. 40GB high-speed data w/10GB hotspot. Unnecessary plan incl. 60GB high-speed data w/20GBYou can hotspot all your data on other plans if you wish.
If you use all your allotment, you can still read emails and google maps with throttled speeds, browsing is painful.
The bigger 2 get capped at 10 and 20 of hotspot use to keep people from using them as a primary Home ISP.
You can upgrade a plan at any time, but can’t downgrade.
Tubular is really spiffy to force 480p/720p for videos.
People burning data on 1080p/1440p…why!!!
I personally download playlists/music I want for offline use with Tidal and use Organic Maps so that solved my main data use issues right there. (Also refreshing to not be tracked by Google in 2025) and also works no issue, on Sandboxed Android Auto on GrapheneOS 🤔😂🤘
Mint because it works well and is super cheap. We pre pay for 5GB/mo for a year and only once have gotten close to using it all. We are just always near Wi-Fi anyways. Their international plans were reasonable as well when we were in Europe for a week last summer.
I thought about mint, but living in a smallish town of this god awful state of Texas, good internet is rarely available and I would easily use up that 5gb
I’d still suggest checking them out, they offer larger plans as well that are still great value ($15 for 5GB, $20 for 15GB, $25 for 20GB, and $30 for unlimited which is 40GB of full speed, $40 gets you 60GB of full speed data; all those are per month when pre paying for a year).
I second this. I was previously an AT&T user and have found Mint to have better coverage especially in the boonies. I wouldn’t go back. I’m on $30/mo unlimited yearly. It’s just not worth what the bigger companies are charging at all.
Oh and Mint offers a free 7-day trial that includes an eSIM so you don’t have to wait for something to come in the mail. I did the eSIM on a second line for the trial and literally never went back to AT&T’s line. I just called them up and cancelled.
T-Mobile, but I’m thinking about switching to T-Mobile.
Honestly though - I have the $30 prepaid T-Mobile plan with unlimited data, 100 phone minutes, and unlimited text. But I’m thinking about switching to Mint Mobile, because it’s just T-Mobile anyways, and I can just pay for the whole year and get the same + unlimited minutes for $15/mo instead.
3 because they give me pretty good value (20€ for a month of unlimited)
Visible wireless because they use Verizon towers and it’s $30 a month unlimited.
Switched to ATT from Verizon because I couldn’t get cell service in my house with Verizon (not in the boonies, just a weird dead zone) and because they just installed ATT fiber, and they were doing crazy offers last year so ended up getting two new iPhones, and ~$200 to switch to their wireless and internet. No problems so far, but I know they’re not the most savory.
The USS Ronald Regan.
Nice choice, what’s the download speed tho?
Can download 1000+ bombs into some middle eastern country within 15 minutes.
Why take a Nimitz-class when you could have a Ford-class?
Android vs Apple all over again.
AT&T. I had never had them before and been with all the other big names. They’re okay, not as great as some have said. I’ve been lucky to not experience the most recent outages and I also joined after the leaks occurred but the service is still the same as the others, in my experience.
But I am looking to leave them soon and possibly go with Helium or another small time carrier. $80 a month (more like $100 after all the bullshit fees) is absurd no matter how you slice it. And the other two are charging the same so you really have no choice anymore except the smaller carriers that run off the same networks.
I’m at $50 with Verizon, 5g, how are you paying that much?? Is that like the top tier ultra wideband whatever?
Google Fi because I got it many years ago and I have 3 lines with unlimited everything for $45. Plus no contracts so if I ever want to cancel that’s no problem. Coverage has always been fine for me. Not sure what the current prices are but if anyone is interested I have referral links and we both get bill credits I think.
This is my exact situation lol Google Fi is just simple and cheap!
I really wanted to like it, but the data speeds felt so slow for some reason. I was with T-Mobile and Spectrum before and after them and never had the same slow speeds I did with Fi.
I really liked the option to have two SIMs on the same line so I could have an included mobile hotspot wherever I went without having to rely on my phone.
I haven’t noticed slow speeds personally but I don’t do much data intensive things anyway.
T-Mobile because we’re grandfathered into a $100 unlimited everything plan. We could go cheaper and such, but for now it’s okay.
Same. I pay “$70 a month” for my unlimited plan from them. Because it’s part of a family plan it only actually costs $30 a month more.
Yeah, I know recently, they’ve been trying to move peeps over from these GFed plans to their current Magenta, and that failed spectacularly as fuck (damn that was Oct '23?!). From what I can see, outside of 5G, it’s the same, just ~$20 more. Le sigh.
outside of 5G, it’s the same, just
I already get 5g which doesn’t make any sense to me. Like there’s one place I can go to and consistently and easily get gigabit download speeds. It would have literally just been paying more for the exact same service. The only up side would be more hotspot data.
Tello, because T-Mobile got greedy. I pay $50 for the same level of service that cost $150 previously.
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