• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Phone service in America. A 1 month sim here in vietnam with a number and 8gb/day costs ~10USD. Its cheaper if you buy longer. Meanwhile Verizon is charging 35-50 dollars a month.

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      12 hours ago

      I kinda limited myself from overly mentioning it since people don’t bring up the subject, but I use Mint Mobile. I’m a solo subscriber, no family plan, and I pay $20 a month. It has to be paid through the year, but that’s not an introductory price; had the same one for years. They just gave me more monthly data for free as well.

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      17 hours ago

      people are switching to us mobile, or a VIRTUAL network? since tmobile recently pulled some shennangans with grandfather plans.

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      2 days ago

      Okay, but Verizon is not the best option in the U.S. right?

      I’m paying €15 for 200GB/month and 1500 minutes to all EU countries and the UK

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        22 hours ago

        Best option for coverage. Best option for “not as sleazy as other phone services”.

        Very much not best for price

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        But i can’t decide if this is good behavior or bad behavior …

        • recently i had a $100 call to London because my plan doesn’t include international. Yikes!
        • but I could retroactively sign up for international service for like $10, and my $100 call became like $5. Yay!
        • but that service is auto-renewal and you have to cancel it by specific day. Dammit!
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        Best option in price? No. Best option in coverage? Yes.

        At least that was true at one point. Not sure if its still holds true today. For awhile they were basically the only ones with coverage in many rural areas.