Which cell phone service is better? Visible or Mint?

My phone service | 5/22/24 | Me, Myself, & I

[EinNYC]

I am trying to decide between Visible (Not the + one) and Mint cell phone services. My needs are simple; I don't do gaming, streaming, watch movies on the phone, etc. I call people; I receive calls (not from foreign countries), I make and receive texts and I research stuff on line (like price comparisons between stores). Do any FReepers have experience with Visible or Mint? I'd appreciate their input.

[Flaming Conservative]

We like Consumer Cellular.

[Redleg Duke]

Pure Talk

[adorno]

Mint is now T-Mobile.

In fact, all cell-phone services are either T-Mobile or Verizon or ATT.

Maybe different processing centers, but same cell towers as the big three.

[fightin kentuckian]

I have Mint. Love it. Got the 15/per month service. I got three free for referring my wife.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Pure Talk for us

[algore]

I have mint, so do my kids and xgf.

I really have no complaints, however I sometimes wonder what would happen if I lost my phone, and how hard it would be to recover from that

[rod5591]

Mint is what we use and we love it!

[luckystarmom]

My daughter and I have Visible. I travel a lot in RV and I’ve had good coverage.

[Ron/GA]

I’ve had Mint. No problems at all. Easy to setup and good telephone customer service. I left them because the only way to get the cheap rate was to pay either 6 months or 12 months in advance (I forget which).

I went to T-Mobile which is $16.50 drafted monthly for unlimited talk and text and 5 gigs of data (which, with wi-fi access, I’ve never come close to using that much).

So, no problems with Mint’s service but I’m very happy with the the T-Mobile plan and service. It is considered to be a pre-paid account but since it is auto billed/drafted monthly it is no hassle. Good luck!

[cableguymn]

yup.

They all buy airtime from one or more of them. Typically you are stuck with one primary carrier.

roaming doesn’t happen. One of the reasons an account with the big 3 costs more is the roaming agreements. You won’t know what carrier your phone is actually using, but it might not be the one billing you in some areas.

[MeganC]

Maybe our NSA and FBI monitors can weigh in here with their expert opinions?

[DesertRhino]

Well played lol… golf clap 👏

[cyclotic]

Pure Talk. Great service, america based offices and customer service. Cheap.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I was going to go with Mint but I live on the NC coast and when I tried to sign up, I was notified that there was no coverage here.

[PIF]

In fact, all cell-phone services are either T-Mobile or Verizon or ATT.
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or Spectrum

[Skybird]

PURE TALK
Comes with a free 3-year subscription to AMAC, too. AMAC.us
My monthly bill went from $65 to $22 including taxes.

[adorno]

or Spectrum

Spectrum uses Verizon. I have Spectrum cell service, under the infrastructure of Verizon.

[A strike]

anyone knowledgeable about Patriot Mobile ?

can they survive ?

[GenXPolymath]

Mint uses T-Mobile towers and T-Mobile signed on with Starlink for global direct to cell from starlink sats. This means no more dead spots anywhere on the surface of the planet. T-Mobile goes live later this year it won’t even show up as starlink the satellites themselves are T-Mobile towers in the sky. It will just work anywhere, everywhere.

T-Mobile has not said it will extend this access to its virtual partners but it’s hard to see how they can’t if they are allowing starlink to be full T-Mobile network access points the phones won’t know the difference.

Starlink already has sent text, made VOLTE calls and yesterday did a full two-way video X call over the satellites with unmodified 5G phones no other company on earth has the network in the sky to do this.

AST has one test bird up and Lynk has a couple 2/3G birds up. Starlink is launching 23 birds every other day it only took iridium 63 to cover the planet at slightly higher altitude.

For the starlink access alone T-Mobile wins especially for people like myself who are global travelers on the regular. T-Mobile magenta max or GoogleFi are by far the best global phone plans FYI. Both have global data and calling in 100+ countries basically most of the civilized world. Adding in starlink is the cherry on top. GoogleFi uses T-Mobile towers as well as others best roaming plan on the planet.