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mobby_6kl posted:I got a T-Mobile prepaid card for use while here in the States and keep getting random calls that are clearly not intended for me. Like, an announcement that my subscription is ready for pickup at pharmacy XYZ and just now got involved in a huge mms conversation about some daycare parent Amanda giving birth to a 6 lbs 13 oz baby boy Yeah.
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I think it's got some kind of time out period but it ain't long, a month maybe.
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Oct 17, 2014 19:30
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I'll take a cricket referral. Thanks.
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poppingseagull posted:I'll take a cricket referral. Thanks. You'll need to PM your First/Last name and email address. edit: If you don't have PMs, you can email me at forum name at gmail. TraderStav fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Hopefully this is a good place for this. I currently have a Nexus 4 with t-mobile's $30 prepaid plan. Work is giving me an iPhone and I want to get down to carrying one phone. At the same time, I'm planning on getting an android head unit for my car and I'm exploring options for data. I thought I saw somewhere in coupons that there was a company that had pay as you go data billed per GB used but I cannot find it anywhere. If I could do this it would be more cost effective as I probably would only be using data for nav and some music streaming in my car. If I'm imagining this thing, I'd probably keep my t mobile plan and tether with call forwarding. Has anyone heard what I'm talking about or have better ideas?
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I think you're thinking of Ting, which requires a Sprint device. (though there may be another one I'm not aware of)
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cbirdsong posted:I think you're thinking of Ting, which requires a Sprint device. (though there may be another one I'm not aware of) Thanks, that was the one.
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So I'm looking to switch onto Cricket next week, as I have a new Moto X coming on the 30th. Is there a way to get the activation kit ahead of time? I couldn't find a way to order it without having to enter an IMEI. I know I'm just being impatient but I'm dying to get off of this GS3. Also, I'll take a referral. A question on this too: eventually we'll be adding two more lines, can a referral be applied to each of those as well?
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ErikTheRed posted:So I'm looking to switch onto Cricket next week, as I have a new Moto X coming on the 30th. Is there a way to get the activation kit ahead of time? I couldn't find a way to order it without having to enter an IMEI. I know I'm just being impatient but I'm dying to get off of this GS3. Not sure about the IMEI but the referral only applies to the account and original line, not the lines that gets added. You'd have to have them be entirely separate accounts. Edit: Referral sent! cage-free egghead fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 24, 2014 15:24
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You can put it in any IMEI, it doesn't tie anything to your account
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TraderStav posted:You can put it in any IMEI, it doesn't tie anything to your account Awesome, thanks for the information.
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I've tried twice to redeem my referral code, but it keeps saying the Cricket number I'm entering (which is mine) is not an eligible Cricket number. How long do I have to wait until I can do the referral? I have full service on my phone.
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carb0nex posted:I've tried twice to redeem my referral code, but it keeps saying the Cricket number I'm entering (which is mine) is not an eligible Cricket number. Are you putting just the 10 digit number in? I get poo poo from forms once in a while because I throw in a leading 1 by habit.
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FAUXTON posted:Are you putting just the 10 digit number in? I get poo poo from forms once in a while because I throw in a leading 1 by habit. Yep, 10 digit number, my email, and the referral code. It gets submitted, then a day-ish later, I get an email saying it failed. I received the code 10 days ago, so it shouldn't be expired.
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carb0nex posted:Yep, 10 digit number, my email, and the referral code. It gets submitted, then a day-ish later, I get an email saying it failed. I received the code 10 days ago, so it shouldn't be expired. It took about three days (and three tries of the code,) after I put my phone on the network before it accepted it. When it did, I got an email almost immediately saying they accepted the referral.
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carb0nex posted:Yep, 10 digit number, my email, and the referral code. It gets submitted, then a day-ish later, I get an email saying it failed. I received the code 10 days ago, so it shouldn't be expired. It wouldn't hurt to open a chat with support. Most have been able to redeem within hours of activating. ErikTheRed posted:So I'm looking to switch onto Cricket next week, as I have a new Moto X coming on the 30th. Is there a way to get the activation kit ahead of time? I couldn't find a way to order it without having to enter an IMEI. I know I'm just being impatient but I'm dying to get off of this GS3. They do do 2 day shipping typically so you shouldn't need to wait long. You could open the other lines individually and then after 60 days merge them.
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SB35 posted:It wouldn't hurt to open a chat with support. Most have been able to redeem within hours of activating. I just finished talking to a support person and he says I had to redeem the referral code before activating my account. The referral requires a Cricket number, and a Cricket number requires an active SIM card and phone number. Does the guy who referred me need to do something on his end? I don't know. 
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carb0nex posted:I just finished talking to a support person and he says I had to redeem the referral code before activating my account. The referral requires a Cricket number, and a Cricket number requires an active SIM card and phone number. The support person is clearly uninformed. Try again. You literally cannot redeem the referral until AFTER you activate your Cricket account. Jesus, sounds like support is going steadily down hill...
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Anybody in this thread have any experience or advice about signal boosters? I love cricket, except when I'm in my basement at home there's very little service down there, to the point where texts will sometimes come in an hour late and routinely fail to send. My new Moto G seems to have a much harder time than my old Razr M in this regard. Anybody got a link to a good one?
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Anybody in this thread have any experience or advice about signal boosters? I love cricket, except when I'm in my basement at home Not sure if they require a service contract with the carrier but I think you can get an ATT femtocell for like $200. Boosters/repeaters start at nearly 400 though.
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FAUXTON posted:Not sure if they require a service contract with the carrier but I think you can get an ATT femtocell for like $200. Boosters/repeaters start at nearly 400 though. I was thinking about the att femtocell route, but wasn't sure if they needed a contract or any sort of provisioning. Just sucks, especially since my old Razr M didn't really have as much of a problem Moto G otherwise is leaps and bounds better though. E: some quick searching suggest that the att femtocell only works with phones that are actually on att and not mvnos. chocolateTHUNDER fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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I just got Cricket on my new phone (Moto X) and it's probably just the phone, but it gets exceptional signal (way better than my M7). Fast too. The 10GB of data per month is an amazing deal. Real glad I went with Cricket over MetroPCS.
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Oh yeah, I have no doubt that it's more the phone than the service. Especially because my old phone worked much better in my basement than the moto G. It's just that the moto G is so much better in every single other way that there's no way I'd go back to my Razr M now 
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Anybody in this thread have any experience or advice about signal boosters? I love cricket, except when I'm in my basement at home I've been kicking around buying one of these for a while (its been on my Amazon wish list for the better part of a year,) I have a Verizon phone through work but their signal has slowly been dropping at my house since I moved in, and now I'm to the point where even when I'm outside it seems like a stiff breeze interferes with my signal. Since I'm part of a massive corporate account and my employer's wireless services group won't supply me with or even help me provision a femtocell if I were to buy one out of pocket that seems like my only option. Geoj fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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SouthLAnd posted:I just got Cricket on my new phone (Moto X) and it's probably just the phone, but it gets exceptional signal (way better than my M7). Fast too. The 10GB of data per month is an amazing deal. Real glad I went with Cricket over MetroPCS. My girlfriend's nokia 630 or whatever from cricket gets much better signal in our rural rear end house than my HTC one (dev edition) on straight talk. I was thinking of swapping from ST to cricket finally. I'm hopeful that I'd get better service in the middle of nowhere, but I'm not too optimistic. Probably just an HTC thing.
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Geoj posted:I've been kicking around buying one of these for a while (its been on my Amazon wish list for the better part of a year,) I have a Verizon phone through work but their signal has slowly been dropping at my house since I moved in, and now I'm to the point where even when I'm outside it seems like a stiff breeze interferes with my signal. Since I'm part of a massive corporate account and my employer's wireless services group won't supply me with or even help me provision a femtocell if I were to buy one out of pocket that seems like my only option. Yeah, it's probably my only option as well. Didn't know these things were that much money, though 
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Didn't know these things were that much money, though Its really no worse than buying a femtocell from whichever carrier (unless you can threaten/bluff your way into having them comp one for you), although from the reviews on that unit you'll probably need a better external antenna than the one it comes with unless you already have a fairly strong signal outside. e: also note - this only covers voice, if you need data too that's a separate $300 booster. Geoj fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Geoj posted:Its really no worse than buying a femtocell from whichever carrier (unless you can threaten/bluff your way into having them comp one for you), although from the reviews on that unit you'll probably need a better external antenna than the one it comes with unless you already have a fairly strong signal outside. My signal outside is strong, and I only need voice (I have wifi indoors, and am just concerned about missing phone calls/texts. It's really only the basement that has the problem. Guess I know what to start saving up for
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Looks like AT&T may have accidentally leaked their plans to move the $60 Gophone plan to "unlimited" data: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1849549-GoPhone-Smartphone-Plan-with-unlimited-data Hofo members got some screenshots showing the $60 plan getting unlimited data with the first 2.5Gig at high speed ala T-Mobile. Supposedly throttled at 512k after that. AT&T has since pulled the page but supposedly this plan goes live on Nov. 12th. Interesting if true.
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Isn't that still worse than Criket? Unless GoPhone isn't limited to 8 mbps or whatever.
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TLG James posted:Isn't that still worse than Criket? It is not limited to 8mb/s and 512kbps is much better than Cricket's throttled speeds of ~128kbps. The interesting part is how that will trickle down to the other MVNOs
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SB35 posted:It is not limited to 8mb/s and 512kbps is much better than Cricket's throttled speeds of ~128kbps. The interesting part is how that will trickle down to the other MVNOs The more interesting part is the lawsuit that the FTC hit AT&T with last week about throttling when they claim something is unlimited. Granted, it probably won't get far as they tried the same thing against Verizon and I believe they just threw money at it all until it went away but...yeah. http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/10/ftc-says-att-has-misled-millions-consumers-unlimited-data
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ThermoPhysical posted:The more interesting part is the lawsuit that the FTC hit AT&T with last week about throttling when they claim something is unlimited. Even more interesting is this article and FCC filing that reveals the rates MVNOs are paying for data as well as what Tmo is paying for roaming data. The TLDR here is that MVNOs are running on razor thin margins. TF Article
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TLG James posted:Isn't that still worse than Criket? Its worse than cricket in that you can get 10gb for $55 right now of 8mbps on cricket or 3gb for $45. I guess if you need more than 10gb and can live with 512kbps for most of that its a deal.
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Athenry posted:Its worse than cricket in that you can get 10gb for $55 right now of 8mbps on cricket or 3gb for $45. I guess if you need more than 10gb and can live with 512kbps for most of that its a deal. Cricket is "unlimited" as well. You're throttled after your allotted data is up just like with GoPhone. The major differences are you get more GB on Cricket (10GB max) and no throttle on GoPhone (no 8mbps cap).
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ThermoPhysical posted:Cricket is "unlimited" as well. You're throttled after your allotted data is up just like with GoPhone. If you follow hofo members experiences, some have seen extended outages on Cricket. There was recently one where LTE was affected for several days and there have been several large outages going back to the AIO days. I was affected by the latest LTE outage and switching to 4g only "fixed" it until cricket ultimately resolved it. I've also noticed that in areas of weak signal the proxy that does the throttle becomes a liability. I will not be able to get data in or out but my wife's identical phone on GoPhone will be unaffected. Take these anecdotes for what they are. Cricket is paying my bill for the next two months so I'm sticking with them until then. After that, ill reevaluate what Gophone has to offer. I guess that's the best part of this whole prepaid deal.
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Brock Landers posted:If you follow hofo members experiences, some have seen extended outages on Cricket. There was recently one where LTE was affected for several days and there have been several large outages going back to the AIO days. I was affected by the latest LTE outage and switching to 4g only "fixed" it until cricket ultimately resolved it. I've also noticed that in areas of weak signal the proxy that does the throttle becomes a liability. I will not be able to get data in or out but my wife's identical phone on GoPhone will be unaffected. Take these anecdotes for what they are. Cricket is paying my bill for the next two months so I'm sticking with them until then. After that, ill reevaluate what Gophone has to offer. I guess that's the best part of this whole prepaid deal. The problem is, outages happen on pretty much any MVNO. While GoPhone may not experience outages now, they can and do happen. This is because MVNOs don't really have priority on the networks they piggyback on. Cricket's outages come from it being so popular (which is one reason why AT&T bought and merged Cricket in the first place). That number may drop, however, as we get closer to 2015 and people wonder why their CDMA phones don't work anymore on Cricket and get pissed because they're required to buy a new phone for GSM.
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e: thanks!
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How common are outages on Cricket and when do they usually occur? I've only had their service a week.
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I've never had a problem. I've had cricket since July or august. I got all the data I needed at the us grand Prix with over 100,000 other people using their phones.
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