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I do have their internet service, but our plan cannot be integrated with other plan and I will most likely keep this plan forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
I just checked that xfinity has a prepaid plans. I just need to put imei # to see my phone is compatible.
Prepaid plan was/is probably the biggest factor.
To qualify for Xfinity Mobile the only stipulation is that you are already a customer with at least one of their products. Since you have their internet you would qualify and I see no reason you'd need to change your current plan at all. In fact, they're billed separately and are seemingly entirely separate as best I can tell. The Xfinity internet just unlocks the ability to sign up for Xfinity Mobile. When I price compared Xfinity mobile was not only cheaper than prepaid (unless you throw the phone in a drawer and literally never use it but why even have one?) but quite a bit cheaper than those other post paid options you mentioned plus Xfinity uses VZW towers when not on WiFi. Not sure why anyone who qualifies for Xfinity Mobile would even consider the others unless you have some very specific use case in which case I'm curious for details. Like I said in a previous post, we pay $12/mo for our phones. Both phones. Period. Unlimited talk, text and the only thing you pay for is data.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrPrena
My wife and I manage to stay under the 1GB shared data (she uses her phone sparingly and I work from home) so we have the cheapest option. If we exceed that 1GB of data one month it's $24 is all up to 2gb. If you're going to regularly use 3GB or less they have a plan for $30/mo. That's the one we signed up for because we regularly used like 4GB of data on VZW. I wish I had signed up for the 1GB sooner because we ran through months @ $30/mo where I was happing to be saving $50+ over VZW when we could have been saving like $70ish per month instead. You bounce around on those plans too if you want and if you exceed any of the plans it just automatically bills another $12 for the next 1GB for that month. I don't mean to sound like a commercial but it really is as good as it seems from someone who was skeptical about it over a year ago before we made the switch. Now my only regret is that we didn't do it sooner.
Once Pulse is built out in Loveland I'm going to have a difficult decision to make about our internet/mobile solution which is exactly why they're offering this at such a good rate for existing customers. Suddenly the Pulse gig (symmetrical... no bandwidth caps) internet for $75 doesn't seem like such a good deal if I get gig (download, 40 upload and 1TB cap per month) internet for $70 from Xfinity (got a sweet deal a while back) and then our mobile phones are $12 but only because we have both. Once Pulse is here we'd have to consider other mobile options to save $5 and I'm not sure it's worth it based on the other mobile options out there.
Thanks for the info.Will check it out as well.
Ting now has plans. Existing customers aren't forced to transition to the new plans but it doesn't look like new customers will have the choice of paying by the unit like their past system.
The new plans are Flex ($10/mo/phone with unlimited talk & text, $5/GB of shared data), Set 5 ($25/mo/phone with 5GB data on LTE/5G), and Unlimited (22 GB data on LTE/5G). They say your data doesn't get cut off but is reduced to 2G speeds after your monthly limit. All phones on the same account must use the same plan so you can't have one phone of Set 5 or Unlimited and a second phone on Flex without putting them on different accounts.
I need to check my data usage while working. At home it'd probably be easy to stay under 2gb a month, but when I'm working and using my phone as a Hotspot, I think I go over.
In their Ask Ting section of the community forums, one of their customers created a spreadsheet on Google Docs to estimate costs under the new plans (and even compare it to the old rates). You can put in your data usage month by month and see what plan is best for you.