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T-Mobile Just Ripped 8 Million Customers Off Their Grandfathered Plans – and Raised Their Bills
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When I'm back stateside I just grab one of those monthly unlimited sims for like $35 and forget about it. Dang, you could probably get away with that $10 Xfinity wifi if you have a voip number although coverage probably isn't amazing.
Buddy, I live here and I have no idea what you're talking about. If you're telling the truth, I send me a link, because $35 for unlimited mobile data is a steal.
I think Mint offers that, similar deal with Xfininity mobile but you need to have an Xfinity cable subscription
I used their wifi for my place without a Xfinity cable subscription but you could only connect two devices so I used my old phone as a hotspot and that worked for like up to four devices. It was like $10 per month.
You can buy sim cards from Walmart. Last time I was around I was using ultra mobile, although Walmart had their own brand (can't remember the name). It was $40 no subscription for unlimited talk, text, and data although I think mint now has a similar plan for $30 Link there's like a ton of these companies, just go to Walmart in the electronics area near the laptops and whatnot there's a bunch of sum cards and esims you can get with different deals, I'm pretty sure they also sell mint mobile sim cards
The catch is that it's "unlimited" in that sense that the mobile companies have made people accept now, i.e., deprioritized. I'm on Visible, which is Verizon's MVNO; my plan has unlimited deprioritized everything, and it's $25/mo, with $5/mo discount for the first two years so I'm actually paying $20/mo for now. It's mostly good enough for my purposes; I'm usually on Wifi anyway. When I was leaving a protest and turned my phone back on, I couldn't get enough access to check the bus schedule or text my family, so that was frustrating; dense crowds are a problem. But I was previously paying like $130/mo for Verizon, so it's more than worth putting up with. I got some mesh radios for emergency comms.
US mobile is $25 for unlimited everything. I don't remember the cap before throttle though