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Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

So I'm looking into moving away from Sprint to a prepaid option. I don't really use a lot of data on Sprint (I'm at like 300MB for the month or something) but I do talk quite a lot nowadays. Checking over my usage I've got about 1800 minutes used.

Looking over what T-Mobile has, I'm really interested in the $30 plan (I'm paying $100 for Sprint so this makes me happy) but I know that the 100 minutes won't cut it at all. I know the $50 plan includes unlimited minutes but the data gets throttled at 100MB or whatever.

I've never had the luxury of streaming movies or music because of how bad Sprint coverage here in Miami is. I'd like to think that I probably won't stream much stuff but then again if T-Mobile coverage is better here nowadays I might go over. I'm just so confused and I don't know what to do :ohdear:

By the way, how is T-Mobile coverage in the Miami area? Primarily around Kendall and by the Metro Zoo. I had T-Mo like 7 years ago or something and I don't remember it being anything special then, so has it gotten better?

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Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

swarthmeister posted:

Are you using most of those 1800 minutes in areas with wifi, or on the road? That's probably the best indicator of whether that $30 plan could work for you, since most VOIP programs do require pretty good speed for mobile usage. It's possible to use VOIP stuff over a solid 3g/HSPA connection on T-Mobile, though your mileage may vary. Wifi pretty much guarantees a good VOIP experience.

Ahah I meant to say since my heaviest talk times are in the morning and at night I have WiFi around.

Edit: Looking over the options now it looks like StraightTalk might work for me. $45 for unlimited talk + text and at least 2GB of data is fine. I mostly do some very light Pandora use and pretty heavy tweeting. Nothing much else.

Skeezy fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Nov 1, 2012

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