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anyone had luck with these fly-by night cell carriers? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by pelletbucket@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I see ads all the time for shit like consumer Cellular, mint mobile, stuff that rents time on Verizon towers and sells you a plan for like half the price.

I'm trying real hard to de-Xfinity myself but the cellular plan is the cheapest of all the major companies. Yes, I know they also piggyback off the Verizon network, but at least they have 24/7 support

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[–] 8565@lemmy.techtriage.guru 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love Mint I get service for $180 a year

[–] Meltrax@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How? How do these companies exist and stay running?

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They ride on T-Mobile's network, so they have lower priority. Also, support is terrible and almost non-existent. I use Mint myself and it's been ok. It's great until you run into an issue, and it can be hell to get it resolved. If it works though, you should be fine, that's why you should always use the trial sim first so you can test for 7 days if it works on your phone and if you have good reception in the places you're usually at.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They also don’t bother to run retail locations or advertising or anything. Just phone + app for payments + cheap + good luck

I and friends have had Mint and on the whole it is great

[–] MrFappy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Mint is great… on the hole. In regards to the ads though, I, and Ryan Reynolds, and YouTube wholeheartedly disagree. I see almost as many of their ads as I do ones for St Jude’s. It’s like, I get it, kids get cancer, it’s sad as fuck, stop reminding me that it could happen to mine!

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My software configuration is such that whenever I see a YouTube ad on some stranger’s device it is a violently disturbing event

Like wtf why does YouTube have ads now, these are really obnoxious

[–] MrFappy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m not savvy enough to do all that. Let’s put it this way, I legitimately floated the idea of YouTube premium before trying to figure the complication that is configuring a different software setup for my entire network just to avoid the ads.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 4 months ago

It is just uBlock origin, not some crazy thing

But yes I actually paid for Premium for like a couple of years; it is actually one of the most impactful in my experience in terms of those little “give us $7/mo to improve your internet in some minor way” services