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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.
I have Mint. Love it. Got the 15/per month service. I got three free for referring my wife.
Pure Talk for us
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
Mint is what we use and we love it!
My daughter and I have Visible. I travel a lot in RV and I’ve had good coverage.
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!
Maybe our NSA and FBI monitors can weigh in here with their expert opinions?
Pure Talk. Great service, america based offices and customer service. Cheap.
PURE TALK
Comes with a free 3-year subscription to AMAC, too. AMAC.us
My monthly bill went from $65 to $22 including taxes.
anyone knowledgeable about Patriot Mobile ?
can they survive ?
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.
I’ve had Mint for a while - like everyone else here I’m quite happy...especially with the price!
A year ago I got a good deal on a phone and a year of service from Mint Mobile. Calls drop so much I’ve just about thrown it out the window several times. Never happened when I had Straight Talk. I don’t know if it’s the phone or the service. It goes through T Mobile, with which I have home internet. The home internet works flawlessly, but I’m still not completely sure whether the problem is the phone or the service. I called Mint about it one time but the foreign assistant was absolutely no help.
Myself, my ex, and our son had all been Verizon users for many many years. Because of geography we all had our own plans. The cheapest of those plans was mine, and it was in the neighborhood of $90 a month for 8GB of data with rollover. The other two plans were far higher.
I looked into the Verizon options, and honestly they were a joke. I had to get a new phone and the bill would drop by maybe $10 a month.
After researching the reasonably priced carriers extensively, I went with Mint, choosing their 15GB plan. Paid annually, it’s only $20 a month, and they had a special where you get that price while paying only 3 months worth and getting three additional months free. So for only $60 plus about $10 tax, I got 6 months of service. Activating my several year old Galaxy S9+ went like clockwork! Almost instantly I was off Verizon and on Mint.
I also referred the ex and my son to Mint, and their bills dropped as did mine. Mint allows you 4 paid referrals per year, and just with those two I earned a $150 credit! And, as newly referred Mint customers, each received a $15 credit on their accounts as well!
The service has been excellent. There are a couple of places where I had very weak Verizon service but now don’t have service. These are both inside a couple of metal buildings. That is literally the only difference I’ve noticed.
My 6 months is almost up, so I’m about to renew for a year at 12 x $20 = $240, minus my $150 credit, for a net amount of $90.
I recommend them very highly.
And also, I have 2 more remaining referrals, so if you go with Mint, help a Freeper out and let me refer you! :-D
My brother and his wife have Visible and they’re happy with it. They use it for wifi calling.
For those with Xfinity Internet (only one in my neighborhood), take a close look at Xfinity mobile for your phone. If you can live on 1gig of data shared per month, you pay under $16 for two phones with unlimited calling and text. If you need unlimited data, it’s closer to $30 for two phones. You must have Xfinity Internet at home to get that deal.
I’ve been paying $15.74 a month for our two iPhones that we brought with us.
Try Consumer Cellular... They’re cheap and you only talk to humans.