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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @IRJ
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      @IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

      an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).

      Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?

      Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender @JaredBusch
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        @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

        @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

        Something else to consider.

        TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone

        https://i.imgur.com/SdbXTyim.png

        Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.

        All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.

        @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

        I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol

        They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..

        now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.

        But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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          @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

          @IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

          an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).

          Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?

          Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).

          My one phone was like $180/mo and I got "loyalty" penalties every two years as well.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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            @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

            But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.

            It wouldn't be unlimited if it were limited, right? You are adding in restrictions that are totally unreasonable and obviously are not true. It's unlimited in the US, Canada and Mexico - the "service market."

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            • NerdyDadN
              NerdyDad
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              Sprint

              We have the unlimited plan and 1500 minutes with 4 phones for about $250/month. They like to try to stick it to you in the maintenance and purchasing of the phone. Don't really travel that much outside of the US, but I've had problems in New Mexico a couple of years ago with coverage.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.

                It wouldn't be unlimited if it were limited, right? You are adding in restrictions that are totally unreasonable and obviously are not true. It's unlimited in the US, Canada and Mexico - the "service market."

                We're talking about speeds, not unlimitedness. i.e. you pay lower price you get speed X, you pay +25, you get 2X speed. that doesn't change the unlimited nature of it.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                  @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                  @IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                  an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).

                  Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?

                  Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).

                  My one phone was like $180/mo and I got "loyalty" penalties every two years as well.

                  Holy crap! what kind of options did you have on that one phone? Unlimited data back when data was an arm and a leg?

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @NerdyDad
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                    @NerdyDad said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                    Sprint

                    We have the unlimited plan and 1500 minutes with 4 phones for about $250/month. They like to try to stick it to you in the maintenance and purchasing of the phone. Don't really travel that much outside of the US, but I've had problems in New Mexico a couple of years ago with coverage.

                    What do you mean stick it to you with maintenance and purchasing of the phone?

                    Most US cell companies have picked up the, what I call, European plan. i.e. the phone service is completely separate from the phone. The service is what the service costs - you want a phone, you pay for it outright, or through the kind graces of the carrier, they let you make payments to them instead of your CC company at little or no interest. Or you buy into one of the more modern plans where you don't really buy a phone, instead you rent one, and you turn it in every 1-2 years and start paying the new rental fee.

                    This really is the fairest solution - you pay the lowest - yet regular - fee for the service.. then you decide how much you want to spend on a phone. If you want to run a phone for 4 years, then you can save a crap load of money! In the old days, you were punished by not getting a new phone as soon as your contract allowed.. you always paid the high subsidized price, even if you were getting no value from it.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                      @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                      @IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                      an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).

                      Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?

                      Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).

                      My one phone was like $180/mo and I got "loyalty" penalties every two years as well.

                      Holy crap! what kind of options did you have on that one phone? Unlimited data back when data was an arm and a leg?

                      Probably.

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                      • NerdyDadN
                        NerdyDad @Dashrender
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                        @Dashrender That's the problem we're starting to face now. Our last mid-election cycle contract is up and they like to tack on extra charges when you're out of contract. Plus, you can't tell me that a phone truly costs $600-1000 to make + profit. There's got to be profit built in for both the manufacturer and the carrier. I'm sure the manufacturer and the carrier likes to negotiate. Otherwise, the carrier isn't going to carry your phone for free.

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                        • NerdyDadN
                          NerdyDad
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                          We currently have Directv aka AT&TV and we're considering going from Sprint to AT&T to bundle and possibly get some savings. Does anybody else do this? Has anybody else seen the savings in it?

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @NerdyDad
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                            @NerdyDad said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                            @Dashrender That's the problem we're starting to face now. Our last mid-election cycle contract is up and they like to tack on extra charges when you're out of contract. Plus, you can't tell me that a phone truly costs $600-1000 to make + profit. There's got to be profit built in for both the manufacturer and the carrier. I'm sure the manufacturer and the carrier likes to negotiate. Otherwise, the carrier isn't going to carry your phone for free.

                            Why would you think that? You can buy those phones direct from Amazon for the exactly (within a few dollars) the same price as you do in the cellular store. Heck - look at Apple and the iPhones. The iPhone is the same cost at AT&T as it is in the Apple store.

                            The difference is that Apple might get to keep more of the profits, but the consumer still pays the same price.

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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch @Dashrender
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                              @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                              @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                              @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                              Something else to consider.

                              TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone

                              https://i.imgur.com/SdbXTyim.png

                              Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.

                              All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.

                              @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                              I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol

                              They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..

                              now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.

                              But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.

                              Actually, the fine print on that page does say that. It also says that top abusers can be throttled to 3g speeds when tethering if the carrier so chooses.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @JaredBusch
                                last edited by

                                @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                Something else to consider.

                                TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone

                                https://i.imgur.com/SdbXTyim.png

                                Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.

                                All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.

                                @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol

                                They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..

                                now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.

                                But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.

                                Actually, the fine print on that page does say that. It also says that top abusers can be throttled to 3g speeds when tethering if the carrier so chooses.

                                LOl it says what? I said a lot of things in the quoted part 🙂

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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch @Dashrender
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                                  @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                  @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                  @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                  @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                  @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                  Something else to consider.

                                  TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone

                                  https://i.imgur.com/SdbXTyim.png

                                  Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.

                                  All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.

                                  @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                  I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol

                                  They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..

                                  now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.

                                  But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.

                                  Actually, the fine print on that page does say that. It also says that top abusers can be throttled to 3g speeds when tethering if the carrier so chooses.

                                  LOl it says what? I said a lot of things in the quoted part 🙂

                                  Yes.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @JaredBusch
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                                    @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                    @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                    @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                    @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                    @JaredBusch said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                    @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                    Something else to consider.

                                    TMobile doesn't include hotspotting at there included rates either, for that you'll pony up another $25/m per phone

                                    https://i.imgur.com/SdbXTyim.png

                                    Sober and have coffee.. Following up on this again, you are, yet again, reading this wrong and making incorrect assumptions.

                                    All T-Mobile phone plans include tethering have included tethering for years. The image you posted above is to enable full 4G LTE speeds at all times when you tether.

                                    @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                    I wonder what they mean by Twice the Speed? So they are intentionally capping my speed with the normal plan, and they are doubling that speed for $25 more a month.. sigh. lol

                                    They mean you get faster international data than you get for free. duh..

                                    now you're assuming it's only international. The USA could be one of those 140 destinations... That said, there's a chance your assumption is correct.

                                    But nothing in that ad indicated that Hotspot service is only while traveling internationally, then again, nothing says it isn't either.

                                    Actually, the fine print on that page does say that. It also says that top abusers can be throttled to 3g speeds when tethering if the carrier so chooses.

                                    LOl it says what? I said a lot of things in the quoted part 🙂

                                    Yes.

                                    Purple.

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                                    • IRJI
                                      IRJ @Dashrender
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                                      @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                      @IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                      an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).

                                      Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?

                                      Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).

                                      Well no.. Because you would only be getting 5GB of data per phone which is $45 a month when you use autopay. Also $45 a month is the final price so no taxes and fees on top of that.

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @IRJ
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                                        @IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                        @Dashrender said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                        @IRJ said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                        an the other prepaid services that use their own or piggyback off of Sprint (which is terrible).

                                        Wow double? so one phone on VZW is $120-$140/month?

                                        Moving the $60/month plan would drastically increase my 3 phone bill plan on ATT. 3 phones 15 GB shared data $140/month (I have a discount that saves me even more).

                                        Well no.. Because you would only be getting 5GB of data per phone which is $45 a month when you use autopay. Also $45 a month is the final price so no taxes and fees on top of that.

                                        I think I could up the plan to get 30 GB total, 10 GB a phone for around $60/phone, but I don't need that. Over the three phones we typically use around 5 GB. None of us stream music - that could probably kill the rest of the data if we did.

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                                        • Minion QueenM
                                          Minion Queen Banned
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                                          We have Verzion (have to here) We have 5 phones and 2 jetpacks. We have 25 GB of data. We pay around $425/month. Unlimited calling/text

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                                          • DashrenderD
                                            Dashrender @Minion Queen
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                                            @Minion-Queen said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

                                            We have Verzion (have to here) We have 5 phones and 2 jetpacks. We have 25 GB of data. We pay around $425/month. Unlimited calling/text

                                            $60.70 per device, 3.x GB per device, OK that's a bit high - but it is VZW, so considering.. it's not as bad as it could be.

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