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jauntywundrkind

Who else has cheap data sims? Is this still a killer feature of GoogleFi alone (one time $5 fee for a data sim)?

I really wish companies would be happy to sell data. Making a bunch of addon charges to get me to he point where I can consume data is such a defiance of what these companies best utility should be: carrying data.

The one other thing that almost wholly shapes who I'd go with for an MVNO is what speed I get after soft cap. Everyone has unlimited & everyone will eventually slow you down to much slower speeds: what life is like after that threshold is why I cling to my absurdly expensive very grandfathered Verizon Unlimited, which they won't even let me bump my SMS allowance on.

Mint Mobile is $15/month for unlimited.

That's $10 more than I pay for Mint Mobile.

Yeah, if the constant youtube ads with Ryan Reynolds I see are anything to go by, they've dropped their price once or twice.

Unlimited = 40 GB then "480p speeds"

This is exactly my biggest question about every network out there. What happens after soft-cap?

> The one other thing that almost wholly shapes who I'd go with for an MVNO is what speed I get after soft cap.

This should have to be advertised alongside any deal in big bold print. It should be in the main paragraph outlining the plan in every review. But instead it's often buried somewhere in terms & service, or uses vague words like "lowered priority" (even though it just means you'll be soft capped). If it's available at all. And most reviews / descriptions of plans don't mention this. The awareness around this issue needs to be the focus of most of these plans, in my view.

Agreed. I recently travelled over the US border to Canada (to a major city) and was shocked by the International data pittance, and what Verizon considers "3G speed". Crossing that imaginary line took me back almost 15 years and as much as I want to blame Verizon and their CA partner, apparently they're one of the "better ones"!

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