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Well it was nice while it lasted but looks like I'm done with smartel/bluegreen wireless. Had my latest auto payment fail, when I went to the site to try to update my billing information I found its been under construction for the past month or two. When I contacted customer support about it they asked me to email them my credit card number. Back to Nerd Plan I go.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Yah, got that there too. Lol apparently my number is all hosed up, anyone who calls my GV (now Fi) number from within the 402 area gets this bizarre clicking noise, followed by half of a "please check the number and try again" recording which is overlapping a recording saying something like "4 0 2 D S O" even though they can call my old cricket number (which I have set up to forward to the GV/Fi number) and it'll get patched right through to my phone. Calls from outside the area code apparently come in just fine. The recording is poo poo right out of one of those numbers stations complete with awful static noise. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPr1WtJM1iY poo poo's annoying. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Jan 6, 2017 |
# ? Jan 6, 2017 00:42 |
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Edit: got the referral thanks.
lwoodio fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jan 6, 2017 |
# ? Jan 6, 2017 01:59 |
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Rumor: Sprint is going to experiment with plans on their Virgin Mobile brand, maybe even some kind of free tier. Nothing solid yet. http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-plots-strategy-for-virgin-s-relaunch-as-boost-returns-to-growth
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# ? Jan 9, 2017 17:38 |
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Been using Page Plus for the past 6 years been happy but since Tracfone bought them out I have been having service issues. Verizon won't allow other phones so my Boost Mobile Moto G got blacklisted so I got a Droid 4. The D4 battery life is terrible and the phone is slow with CM13 and the replacement chinese batteries are full of fail. Looking for another carrier and phone. Cricket and Google Fi seem interesting. Leaning more towards Cricket as AT&T has good service in my area. With Cricket can you buy a bunch of plans and stack them like P+?
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 15:51 |
The only way you'd be stacking on Cricket is either having multiple lines on the account (which saves up to $100/month if you've got 5 lines) or finding somewhere that sells Cricket re-up cards for a discount. The nice thing though is that you can use just about any GSM unlocked phone or any phone that uses AT&T.
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 16:03 |
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The only stacking you can do w/ Cricket is open additional accounts with cheap phones during Black Friday. When you cancel the lines and sell the phones, the unused credit can be used by your primary line. You have to buy the cricket sim unlock code from ebay though.
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 16:50 |
Tomorrow Cricket is upping their data allotment for plans. $40 gets $60 gets The $50 8gb plan is sticking around and won't be going back to 5gb. Unlimited is sticking around too.
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# ? Jan 26, 2017 22:57 |
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Still on the grandfathered $60 20GB plan but yeah bigger data allotments is always good.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 00:15 |
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Hey I got an unlocked Canadian iPhone 7 Plus I would like to use when I'm in the states. I'll be there for 2-3 months at a time. What's my best bet for a cheap prepaid sim i can stick in with good data options?
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 23:14 |
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It depends where you're going as different companies have different coverage in different areas, but either cricket or total wireless will be your best bet. You can get the sims at walmart
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 00:43 |
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Housh posted:Hey I got an unlocked Canadian iPhone 7 Plus I would like to use when I'm in the states. I'll be there for 2-3 months at a time. What's my best bet for a cheap prepaid sim i can stick in with good data options? Cricket, but u have to active the sim card online.
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 00:56 |
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cage-free egghead posted:Tomorrow Cricket is upping their data allotment for plans. Seems like it's been the 2nd or 3rd time they have upped the data. Pretty happy with cricket so far
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 02:44 |
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The Prepaid Smartphone Thread - Just Use Cricket
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 02:50 |
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:The Prepaid Smartphone Thread - Just Use Cricket Seconded
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 02:55 |
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:The Prepaid Smartphone Thread - Just Use Cricket The Prepaid Smarphone Thread - running iPhone 7+ on Ringplus
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 03:13 |
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Blue Train posted:Seconded This works! Still working on the thread, mostly trying to get a decent format going.
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 03:50 |
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Anyone know of a good dual sim setup for iPhone?
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 05:30 |
what
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 05:53 |
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Sure: get two sims, one Cricket, one anything else. Put the Cricket one in the phone and activate it. Throw the other one away.
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 07:46 |
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I thought I'd mention this here - Consumer Cellular has a thing for AARP members now that they're not advertising where if you switch to their service, they'll give you either an iPhone 5C for $35 or an iPhone 5S for $50. Someone in my family just switched and I told them the 5S is a steal at that price.
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# ? Jan 28, 2017 15:33 |
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cage-free egghead posted:Tomorrow Cricket is upping their data allotment for plans. This takes me from thinking Cricket is the best general-purpose MVNO, to Cricket being almost suspiciously better than its competition. I watch a ton of YouTube videos on my phone and so long as I switch the basically-podcasts to 144p / turn the screen off with Red I don't have to worry about data even on the 5gb. 8 is going to be a lot of leg room.
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# ? Jan 30, 2017 16:18 |
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ThermoPhysical posted:You have the option of giving the number to Google to use for Project Fi, porting it out to another Google account (they even tell you you can do this so it's not against TOS or anything, it's also free), or just letting it disappear forever as you cannot have Google Voice and Fi active on the same account. Do you still text with the google voice webpage? That's what I'm most curious about. I use google voice a shitload at work on a computer because we can't bring phones into my work. Also... quote:You can still make and take calls on your PC, text, block numbers, all that but if you have Wi-Fi Calling on in the phone app, it will take priority unless you turn Wi-Fi Calling off.
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# ? Jan 31, 2017 13:24 |
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TLG James posted:Do you still text with the google voice webpage? That's what I'm most curious about. I use google voice a shitload at work on a computer because we can't bring phones into my work. Google Voice is the backend of Fi, the page is just useable to listen to voicemail. However, with Voice's new upgrade and Hangout's to be deprecated to business-only with Allo and Duo taking its place, Google may just replace Hangouts with Voice. In fact, Google says they're working on a solution. https://9to5google.com/2017/01/30/project-fi-integration-might-be-coming-to-voice-google-is-working-on-a-solution/ TLG James posted:Does that just means that wifi calling is priority over cell calling? That's more than fine for me. Wi-Fi Calling will kick in whenever your signal isn't strong enough for calling over cellular. If you use Hangouts Dialer, it'll always be over Data but if you use the regular Phone app, it can be Wi-Fi Calling OR normal calling depending on your signal. FAUXTON posted:Lol apparently my number is all hosed up, anyone who calls my GV (now Fi) number from within the 402 area gets this bizarre clicking noise, followed by half of a "please check the number and try again" recording which is overlapping a recording saying something like "4 0 2 D S O" even though they can call my old cricket number (which I have set up to forward to the GV/Fi number) and it'll get patched right through to my phone. I'm sorry you had this problem, I never had it myself but I can see how it'd be frustrating.Hopefully, this supposed "solution" will fix things. :/
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# ? Feb 1, 2017 02:03 |
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I apologise for being dumb up front.... My old dad wants to have a phone "just in case", only to make calls once in a blue moon. We have an unused and unlocked at&t iphone he can have, but what is the cheapest way to put it in service? I could add it to my at&t fam. plan for $10/month and forget about it, but are there not services where you pay upfront *one time* for some chunk of minutes and then pay nothing more until you use them all and have to top up? Everything in the OP are just cheap monthly plans, all substantially more than $10/month.... I'm happy to have him on my plan but if there is such a service that I am imagining then in the long run it would likely be a lot cheaper for us.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:47 |
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My dad has an old fliphone and a pay $.10 per minute plan on sprint I think. Not sure of the details but he switched back to it from our family plan a couple years ago so stuff like that definitely exists and is available.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 16:58 |
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Just switched my wife from her dad's att plan to my cricket plan and she said she's getting worse service then when she was on att. Using the same phone she was using on att. Any validity to that?
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 17:02 |
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Yeah, it's possible. AT&T (and any provider with prepaid plans) gives preference to post-paid customers.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 17:08 |
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other people posted:I could add it to my at&t fam. plan for $10/month and forget about it, but are there not services where you pay upfront *one time* for some chunk of minutes and then pay nothing more until you use them all and have to top up?
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 17:12 |
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The Slack Lagoon posted:Just switched my wife from her dad's att plan to my cricket plan and she said she's getting worse service then when she was on att. Using the same phone she was using on att. Someone mentioned recently that Cricket's traffic gets routed through a proxy and is throttled at 8mb/s So yes
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:I'm no expert about this, but yes those services still exist (e.g. Tracfone) but it seems now that their "minute bucket cards" expire in 1-3 months, so it ends up being no (or not much) cheaper than about $10/mo if you want constant coverage. Yeah, he could look for 6+ month expiration refills for talk/text without data on a GSM provider (careful not to allow data as an optional upcharge). Or even those pay-per-day plans, which could be suited for what it sounds like he'd want. Usually $1 or $2 for a day's unlimited service of talk and text (typically slow data too), no charge for the inactive days. Which works well for emergencies or day trips or landline outages, since the worries would be only "is the payment method still valid" rather than "what's the balance this week"
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 17:26 |
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Page+ still has $80 per year refill card.
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# ? Feb 2, 2017 18:17 |
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whatever7 posted:Page+ still has $80 per year refill card. I may end up using this for a relative as an "emergency car phone". Anyone know if Page Plus lets you buy three 120 day cards and apply them all at once? E: apparently one more click answers that, sorry. Applying a new card restarts the 120 cycle, so the answer is no. WithoutTheFezOn fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Feb 2, 2017 |
# ? Feb 2, 2017 18:35 |
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So Ringplus is finally closing shop, in about one week. I hauled rear end and ordered a one-year Mint sim card for my wife (2gb/month package $177 shipped) As for myself, I think I am going to cheap it out with free freedompop sims for now.
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# ? Feb 4, 2017 04:33 |
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I'm gonna miss my backup free phone. Freedompop kit ordered!
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# ? Feb 4, 2017 09:12 |
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If you're on RingPlus and want to stay on Sprint's coverage, I'd recommend Tello. They have both a pay-as-you-go option (3c/minute, 1c/text, 2c/MB with no credit expiration as long as you use your phone once every 6 months) and customizable monthly plans (so you pick how many minutes/texts/MB per month you want). Porting from RingPlus is easy and you don't even need a new SIM card. Also, if you're thinking about getting Freedompop, be aware that they switched their network provider to a UK company called Fogg Mobile who use their roaming agreement with AT&T to provide service in the US, so it won't work with Sprint-locked devices. Their service was also downgraded to Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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whatever7 posted:So Ringplus is finally closing shop, in about one week. Is there a discount code to get down to $177 on the mint sim?
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# ? Feb 4, 2017 19:16 |
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SB35 posted:Is there a discount code to get down to $177 on the mint sim? https://slickdeals.net/f/9718788-mi...?src=SiteSearch There was a even better code about 1 months ago that drop the 1 year deal to 130+ after tax but I missed the boat
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# ? Feb 4, 2017 19:29 |
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Mr.Radar posted:If you're on RingPlus and want to stay on Sprint's coverage, I'd recommend Tello. They have both a pay-as-you-go option (3c/minute, 1c/text, 2c/MB with no credit expiration as long as you use your phone once every 6 months) and customizable monthly plans (so you pick how many minutes/texts/MB per month you want). Porting from RingPlus is easy and you don't even need a new SIM card. Freedompop actually still leave the old Sprint BOYD option open, the price has always been 19.99+tax but they have a free BYOD promotion right now. https://www.freedompop.com/byodpromo5 So if you have a Sprint phone lying somewhere, or a phone on Ringplus, you can sign up for free. This is actually better than the global GSM sim option because that deal only give you 200MB base data. I was able to disconnect a LG Tribute HD and a LG Volt from R+ and sign up to this deal right away. There is no way to input the ICCID number I guess you have to email support and ask them to update it for you.
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whatever7 posted:https://slickdeals.net/f/9718788-mi...?src=SiteSearch If this was riding on AT&T or Verizon it's be perfect for my father, but the areas he goes for work have poo poo Tmo service ☹️
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