OT: Great Black Friday Mint Mobile Cell Phone Service Deal

[trader_4]

If anyone is interested in awesome low cost prepaid cell phone service, Mint Mobile which uses the T-Mobile network has a great deal going right now. If you open a new account and buy 3 months, they give you 3 months free. Which translates into 6 months of service for:

Unlimited voice/text and

3GB high speed data $7.50/ mth 8GB $10 12 GB $12.50 35GB $15

After that period, renewal would be twice those rates if you prepay for a year. You can also renew for 3 or 6 months for slightly higher prices. If you exceed the above data amounts, data slows to 2G speeds.

And I can give you a referral code that will give you a $15 CREDIT that you can use when you renew. That makes it an even better deal!

Disclosure: I've been a customer for 3 years and if you use my link, I get a referral bonus too. But this really is an awesome deal worth knowing about, so please forgive the shameless promotion. :)

[Ralph Mowery]

As much as Trader4 and I dissagree with many things, he did put me on this a while back and I have been satified with the service and price. I do not do much data so just went with the lowest cost for phone and text.

[trader_4]

Another satisfied customer. :) You really can't find anything even close to this Black Friday deal and after that, their regular rates are the best I've seen. I have a friend who''s still paying Verizon $70 a month for a plan with 100mb of data, which he doesn't use. I can't get him to switch, so I told him if he wants to stick with Verizon, then at least go to their prepaid plan, which at the time was ~$45. He went to the Verizon store and they told him he's already on the lowest cost plan, which is a lie. Those scum buzzards didn't even upgrade him to whatever traditional play they have, I'm sure you can get gigs of data, not just 100MB for $70 or less. He might be better off there, every so often he screws up his phone and he has to go to V store to get them to fix whatever he did to it. I think most of what he does to it is because he doesn't press the lock button when he's done with it. He just puts it into his pocket and then it moves around, thinks it's finger contact, does who knows what. He won't change doing that either.

One thing to about Mint to keep in mind if you recommend it to anyone else, I would probably not buy a phone from them. Their phone pricing isn't anything special, I see people saying the iphone prices are the same as if you bought one from Apple. But if you buy a phone from Mint, it's locked to them for a year. This is a good time to be switching, not only the Mint deal, but also I'm sure there are Black Friday deals on phones too.

[Ralph Mowery]

As my phone needs are minimum, I went on ebay and found a new LG Aristo

3 . It was made to be used with the Metro phone system of T- Mobile, but was unlocked so all I had to do was plug in the Mint Mobile sim card. One reason I switched from the company I was with was their price of phones and the one I had was getting old enough that I thought the battery would quit on me. There is no easy way to replace the battery on that phone. It had to be one of their phones as they used a special software for their system.

I think Mint was a few dollars more a month, but I got 3 GB of data that the other phone did not have. Also I could pick a phone that was much less expensive.

[Ralph Mowery]

Different counries have different prices. Some of the phone plans are expensive. Many have unlimited talk and text for not too much,but when the data takes over they charge a lot. There are lots of free wi-fi spots around so for me the data does not matter as I don't use it that much.

I heard that in the UK that you have to pay a fee for every TV set in the house to get the off the air signals. In the US you can have 10 sets in every room for free if you want them.

[rbowman]

I've got the 3GB plan too and find it's more than enough. At work it's on the company WiFi. I bought a Nokia 4.2. nothing fancy but it is Android One which is the straight Android OS without the customization a lot of device manufacturers do.

[Arlin Helper]

The wireless companies have always been socialist and people don't do as well under socialism.

[kelown]

It's definitely lack of competition. The good thing is that most Americans don't depend on their phone for Internet data, so unlimited mobile data plans aren't often necessary.

[trader_4]

IDK, what does it cost in the UK? Here you can get unlimited for $30 a month with Mint prepaid. If you go to one of the major cell companies and regular monthly post billing, probably $80+ or so. The definition of unlimited varies, but typically if you exceed about 30gb a month or so, the speed either will decline all the time or may decline depending on network traffic. Also, the major carriers typically offer family plans, where if you put 4 phones on it, you can get it for ~$35 each.

[kelown]

Unless I missed it, no one has mentioned that Mint plans allow unlimited hotspot tethering to your other devices. That came in handy when my Comcast WiFi went down for a few hours.

[trader_4]

Those are much better than the US. But it's also Black Friday, I assume regular pricing is more. Even so, regular must be much lower than US. And to be able to lock in those prices for two years is really sweet, you'd never see that here. If you go to a major carrier, you'd typically have to do a one year contract and wind up paying $80 to $100 or more for unlimited data, which really isn't unlimited either.

I don't know what all the issues are, but I would expect part of it could be that the UK doesn't have the huge, less populated land areas that companies here have to sink equipment into.

[hubops]

3 Great Britains almost add up to Texas in land area. John T.

[Ed Pawlowski]

From good to none. Take a look at a map of the US. Note the large areas of nothing in the west. I always looked at the map and wondered what was there. Grew up in Philadelphia and most of the east coast was just loaded with roads. Finally took a cross country ride and there a HUGE empty spaces with nothing. Signs warning "Next Gas 130 Miles" and the like. If there is a small town, don't expect much cell service away from it.

Look for a place like Rough Rock, Arizona and you will get a better idea. .

[FromTheRafters]

Bod used his or her keyboard to write :

3 Great Britains more than add up to Texas in land area.

[hubops]

I just used Wiki ...

Great Britain 80,823 sq mi Texas 261,232 sq mi

John T.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Most people from the UK have no idea of the vastness of this country. I have in-law relatives that have visited with plans of seeing things and not realizing they are thousands of miles apart.

I was born in Philadelphia and traveled from Boston to DC at times. As a kid, looking at a map of the west with three lines across the state I always figured there has to be something in between. No, there is nothing, just dirt and rocks.

[hubops]

Here's a little ditty about northern Ontario :

John T.

[FromTheRafters]

I used this:

Either way, Texas is big.

[FromTheRafters]

They probably cheated and measured the island at low tide so it would seem bigger. Texas still wins though.

[hubops]

United Kingdom not = Great Britain

John T.