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BonoMan posted:They are not. They confirmed via facebook they are switching to "Cricket." Bah. Well hopefully it's seemless and I don't have to re-enter anything.
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If I'm looking for AT&T Prepaid, and use less than 2.5GB of data a month, is Straight Talk the pre-paid carrier I'd want to move to? Or would AIO be a better choice right now, even if it's a sinking ship?
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BoyBlunder posted:If I'm looking for AT&T Prepaid, and use less than 2.5GB of data a month, is Straight Talk the pre-paid carrier I'd want to move to? AIO would be a better idea just because they don't seem to actively antagonize their customer base on the same level that straight talk does.
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BoyBlunder posted:If I'm looking for AT&T Prepaid, and use less than 2.5GB of data a month, is Straight Talk the pre-paid carrier I'd want to move to? I'd say give ST a try. They even have LTE if you get the AT&T sim card (though I think it's throttled, but so is AIO). AIO isn't a sinking ship, it's just going to become Cricket branded, nothing will change (so they say). But hey, ST is $45/mo vs. AIO at $55/mo edit: you'll hear opinions vary, but as an anecdote, I've never had any trouble with ST, but their poor service reputation precedes them. SB35 fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Nov 4, 2013 |
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If you're under ~2GB and are looking for a GSM MVNO your best options are probably going to be Aio or T-Mobile. Apparently T-Mobile has a website where they seem to gauge new market interest. It also probably signs you up for their Marketing/PR/Lobbying mailing list: http://www.t-mobile-takeaction.com/ Their twitter people apparently send people there when they ask about when T-Mo is coming to their city.
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Nov 4, 2013 23:22
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BoyBlunder posted:If I'm looking for AT&T Prepaid, and use less than 2.5GB of data a month, is Straight Talk the pre-paid carrier I'd want to move to? You're going to want AIO. As long as you're not tethering, AT&T doesn't give a poo poo what you use the data for. I've streamed Google Music every single day for the past two weeks, they don't even care. Straight Talk is ONLY for web browsing and MMS (when MMS even works). You can sometimes update apps. They are incredibly strict on this.
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Nov 5, 2013 00:03
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Photex posted:they're selling HTC Ones on tings site though ? Yep. They want you to use Sprint HTC ones with sprint and sprint ting HTC ones with ting.
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atomicvocabulary posted:Yep. They want you to use Sprint HTC ones with sprint and sprint ting HTC ones with ting. Ah that sucks, another lovely downfall of CDMA and ESN tracking
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Trip Report: so I bought a used Droid X2 and I was able to port my number over from Virgin Mobile to Page Plus and activate my phone pretty painlessly, but now I'm having reception issues in my office at work. When I was with Virgin I was able to send and receive calls from my LG Optimus Elite while sitting in my office, but now I can't make a call when I'm in the building at all. Whenever I try to make a call service drops out. I had one of my Coworkers sit in my area with his Verizon on-contract phone and it worked fine. I thought I had to get on the Verizon network because they had the best coverage hands down in my area (West LA) now I'm totally confused. Could it be my phone that's causing this?
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Nov 5, 2013 18:52
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I've got an HTC Evo 3D on Virgin Mobile and this thing apparently has some sort of connectivity issues, in that it loses all connectivity and I have to reboot the thing constantly to get it back. What'd be the best bang for my buck out of VM's current crop of Android phones? Reliability is key here.
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Nov 5, 2013 21:29
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ThermoPhysical posted:Straight Talk is ONLY for web browsing and MMS (when MMS even works). You can sometimes update apps. They are incredibly strict on this. Huh? I've had straight talk for a year and been able to update apps, watch youtubes, etc etc just fine.
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Nov 5, 2013 23:17
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Propaganda Hour posted:Huh? I've had straight talk for a year and been able to update apps, watch youtubes, etc etc just fine. Same, but it probably depends on where you live/how congested the towers you are using are (just speculation on my part but that's the only reasonable explanation of why people have different throttling/warnings)
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Nov 5, 2013 23:45
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Went into T-Mobile today to do a SIM swap, from normal to micro for the N5. Booya, turns out the prepaid $30 dork plan is LTE-friendly. I don't think they're capping it, but if they are it's pretty generous. Ran two speed tests out of curiosity and it's reliably >9Mbps down and >5Mbps up at 3/4 bars. Just confirming, since I haven't seen it posted that their prepaid allows LTE.
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Nov 6, 2013 01:25
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sweart gliwere posted:Just confirming, since I haven't seen it posted that their prepaid allows LTE. I just put the same SIM from the Nexus 4 into the 5 today and had no problems getting LTE. This is also on the $30 plan.
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Nov 6, 2013 01:34
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Thanks for the advice on AIO, goons. I've ordered a SIM kit for $62 and once this month ends with T-Mobile, I'll give AIO a spin.
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Nov 6, 2013 03:35
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Ordered a ST at&t SIM so I could get some LTE (and decent service) action on my new N5. Just wish I hadn't refilled like 10 days ago on my Tmo SIM.
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Nov 6, 2013 03:42
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I've been using StraightTalk a few days on my N5 and am pretty impressed with AT&T's network compared to my old phone with Ting/Sprint.
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Nov 6, 2013 04:39
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sweart gliwere posted:Went into T-Mobile today to do a SIM swap, from normal to micro for the N5. Booya, turns out the prepaid $30 dork plan is LTE-friendly. I don't think they're capping it, but if they are it's pretty generous. Ran two speed tests out of curiosity and it's reliably >9Mbps down and >5Mbps up at 3/4 bars. Definitely not capped. I've seen 40+mbit in the Bay area.
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Nov 6, 2013 05:11
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sweart gliwere posted:Went into T-Mobile today to do a SIM swap, from normal to micro for the N5. Booya, turns out the prepaid $30 dork plan is LTE-friendly. I don't think they're capping it, but if they are it's pretty generous. Ran two speed tests out of curiosity and it's reliably >9Mbps down and >5Mbps up at 3/4 bars. Is that $30 "dork plan" this one?  That's a pretty sweet deal since I mostly text but I already have a phone. If I buy their cheapest phone can I just swap that SIM card into my iPhone? (Or wait, if I buy a 5s does that count?)
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Boris Galerkin posted:Is that $30 "dork plan" this one? I don't think you even need to buy a phone, you can just order a sim when you get the plan.
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Nov 7, 2013 04:33
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Boris Galerkin posted:Is that $30 "dork plan" this one? Order one of their SIM cards. They're often on sale for like $0.99 but bad timing, as it looks like they're full price right now.Then activate the $30 nerd plan online. Good to go. If you've got an iPhone, then use unlockit.co.nz to install the correct APN settings. SB35 fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Nov 7, 2013 |
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Can I port my ST number over if I do that? And what happens if I go over 100 minutes, does it just start charging me by the minute?
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Boris Galerkin posted:Can I port my ST number over if I do that? Yes, $.10/minute which is very reasonable.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Can I port my ST number over if I do that? Yes, you can port your number from ST. Google will help you there. Yeah, it's $0.10/min. People around here tend to put like $40 on their account the first couple months to help with the overages until they figure out their average monthly usage. That $10 = 100 extra minutes.
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That seems like a pretty sweet deal then. I already prepaid for next month of my ST service but I'll definitely keep an eye out for that SIM card to drop to $0 again (a few posts up suggests it was $0) and  .
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Nov 7, 2013 14:52
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TraderStav posted:Yes, $.10/minute which is very reasonable. To add to that, it starts taking $0.10/minute out of your remaining balance. If you have no balance, you cannot make calls. You should also be careful around your renewal date to make sure you don't dip into the money you will need to pay for your next month.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Can I port my ST number over if I do that? I just ported from strait talk to this plan. A word of advise, they'll tell you it takes 24 hours to complete, but just call customer service and give them your SIM card number from ST. Would have saved me a day or two to convert over.
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I replaced my Straight Talk 4G AT&T SIM with an LTE AT&T SIM. It came in just a few days and transferring to the new SIM took like 1 minute online. Speeds are fast. Highly recommended.
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ShaneB posted:I replaced my Straight Talk 4G AT&T SIM with an LTE AT&T SIM. It came in just a few days and transferring to the new SIM took like 1 minute online. Speeds are fast. Highly recommended. Oh, can you just switch SIM cards online, while keeping the same number in that short amount of time? I use Gvoice so it really doesn't matter, but I'm curious. If that's possible, can I switch SIMs now instead of waiting until my month runs out on the current SIM?
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SB35 posted:Oh, can you just switch SIM cards online, while keeping the same number in that short amount of time? I use Gvoice so it really doesn't matter, but I'm curious. If that's possible, can I switch SIMs now instead of waiting until my month runs out on the current SIM? I use gvoice as well but I use my secondary (real) number for MMS texting with a particular subset of contacts. Yeah, it just switches the SIM attached to your account, as far as I know.
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ShaneB posted:I use gvoice as well but I use my secondary (real) number for MMS texting with a particular subset of contacts. Cool. I'll have to look into this. I'd love to switch to my at&t LTE sim now and get off my Tmo SIM instead of waiting 3 weeks.
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SB35 posted:Cool. I'll have to look into this. I'd love to switch to my at&t LTE sim now and get off my Tmo SIM instead of waiting 3 weeks. Just login, click on activate, and select the option for transfering existing service.
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ShaneB posted:Just login, click on activate, and select the option for transfering existing service. You rock, thanks. I'll give it a go right now. edit: waiting to port over to the new SIM now edit edit: still waiting for the port to finish, didn't expect it to take 12+ hours...come on straight talk edit x3: ok, up and running finally. Might have just been waiting for "business hours" SB35 fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Nov 8, 2013 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:Is that $30 "dork plan" this one?
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Saint Fu posted:Quite possibly a dumb question, but does anyone know if I will get HSPA+ with this prepaid plan? You will as long as it's available in your area.
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I get HSPA+ and LTE with the prepaid plan. Using voip.ms and csipsimple to get around the 100 minute restriction, working well.
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Great, thanks. I'm going to go ahead and assume there's HSPA+ coverage in Chicago despite the completely ambiguous coverage maps provided by Tmo.
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Saint Fu posted:Great, thanks. I'm going to go ahead and assume there's HSPA+ coverage in Chicago despite the completely ambiguous coverage maps provided by Tmo. You can check but yes it looks like you do
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gariig posted:You can check but yes it looks like you do
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Anyone else having trouble connecting to the 3G network with Straight Talk? Never had problems before with my iPhone 4.
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