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I'm sure there are a lot of you out there that will be interested in this.

Sign up for our one simple plan. Then it's $10 per GB for data. $10 for 1GB, $20 for 2GB, $30 for 3GB and so on. That's it. With no annual contract required.

  • Our plan starts with the Fi Basics for $20 per month. This includes:
  • Unlimited domestic talk and text
  • Unlimited international texts
  • Low-cost international calls
  • Wi-Fi tethering
  • Coverage in 120+ countries
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This could be the beginning of the end for the cell phone providers! I know I'd be happy to be done with $50/mo bills.
 
So $20 + $10/GB? Sounds decent if they would release some inexpensive phones that work on this.
 
weebling1 said:
uh...that looks freaking great, what am I missing?
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Sprint's coverage isn't great...and T-Mobile's is worse.

ocellaris said:
So $20 + $10/GB? Sounds decent if they would release some inexpensive phones that work on this.
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"Decent" in that it is more expensive than Sprint and doesn't have unlimited data. So you end up paying more, getting less, all while using the same towers. Sounds great, doesn't it!?
 
Skripka said:
Sprint's coverage isn't great...and T-Mobile's is worse.



"Decent" in that it is more expensive than Sprint and doesn't have unlimited data. So you end up paying more, getting less, all while using the same towers. Sounds great, doesn't it!?
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More expensive than Sprint, but with data speeds of Tmobile. That makes it better to me. Sprint is a joke of a company. TMobile is better but has terrible coverage. Id be happy with TMO whenever possible but a fallback to Sprint if I cant get anything else.
 
So, you people pay less than $20 a month for your phone / data plan?
Where do you get that low of a price? I would LOVE to play $20 a month....
 
somecallmeTim said:
So, you people pay less than $20 a month for your phone / data plan?
Where do you get that low of a price? I would LOVE to play $20 a month....
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If your grandfathered into a old contract you could be paying $50 a month for ulimited everything with AT&T :(
 
So, this is a mobile plan, right...? I mean, the images seem to make it clear, but not really called out that clearly. And the name is awful...Google Fi? What the hell does that even mean, tells me nothing about the product.

And the catch is - you have to buy a Nexus 6, the only phone that will work with this. Yeah...slight caveat.
 
Cali3350 said:
If your grandfathered into a old contract you could be paying $50 a month for ulimited everything with AT&T :(
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$50 > $20

Still trying to find a $20 a month plan that is equal. "Grand fathered" in is likely going away for everyone soon. Plus "unlimited everything" -- how much data do you people use? I barely touch the 2GB minimum I have with ATT as it is.
 
somecallmeTim said:
So, you people pay less than $20 a month for your phone / data plan?
Where do you get that low of a price? I would LOVE to play $20 a month....
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The cheapest plan appears to be $30 unless I'm reading it wrong. $20 for the "basics" and $10 for "1gb"

They would need to credit all of your data back to get it down to $20. So if you use zero data, or like 500mb, it may be reasonably priced.
 
TwistedAegis said:
And the catch is - you have to buy a Nexus 6, the only phone that will work with this. Yeah...slight caveat.
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From what I can tell, the Nexus 6 is required for your calls to seamlessly move from wifi to cellular. Otherwise you have to use Google Hangouts for your calls and they'll drop when you lose wifi.
 
TwiceOver said:
Still more expensive than what I pay AND on shittier networks.

No thanks.
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ocellaris said:
So $20 + $10/GB? Sounds decent if they would release some inexpensive phones that work on this.
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In my zip it looks like a Sprint Map...doesn't get much worse than that. I see no mention of phones or phone pricing either.

The whole ad is like watching a news person ask a politician a question and getting the usual no straight answer.

A bit to vague as presented.
 
Still, they could credit back all of my data, and offer me sexual favors, still wouldn't be caught dead using Sprint/T-Mo.

Well, maybe. But those favors would have to be on my terms. :D
 
somecallmeTim said:
So, you people pay less than $20 a month for your phone / data plan?
Where do you get that low of a price? I would LOVE to play $20 a month....
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Let's see here...I'm paying $80/month for unlimited everything. For $80 on Fi I get 6GB of data. And oh gee, their data plans poop out at 10GB that is pretty outrageously priced.


Fi is for people who don't use a smartphone as much as a dumb phone. Except dumb phone users have no clue what an MVNO is or that Fi exists....and probably, like John McCain, don't even use email.
 
somecallmeTim said:
So, you people pay less than $20 a month for your phone / data plan?
Where do you get that low of a price? I would LOVE to play $20 a month....
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$20 is not for phone and data, just phone, data is an extra $10 for every GB, which still is not bad, and they give you back what you don't use, say you opt for 10GB, but only use 3GB, you would be refunded $70, from the $120 for the $20 phone and $100 from data. Which could save a ton, some times I use allot, other months don't even really touch data. I pay for 10GB as it is, but this month will be lucky to use 1GB (sitting at 600MB right now). That is money I will never see back, but with Google? I would be refunded $90 this month.
 
Yeah...not bad I guess. But currently have StraighTalk using T-Mobile with no network issues at all. I pay $48.65 after taxes and get unlimited talk/text and 3GB of data before being throttled. Sooooo, as awesome as this seems to be, I'll still have to pass.
 
eh, t-mobile family plan is 100$ for 4 lines with 2.5 gigs of data, that's roughly 25$ each line.
Sure, + taxes, but i have a company discount of like 15% off the total cost.
Charging per gig is sort of crappy. Google should have gotten better deals or just started their own cell service where they already have fiber infrastructure.
 
Hypergreatthing said:
eh, t-mobile family plan is 100$ for 4 lines with 2.5 gigs of data, that's roughly 25$ each line.
Sure, + taxes, but i have a company discount of like 15% off the total cost.
Charging per gig is sort of crappy. Google should have gotten better deals or just started their own cell service where they already have fiber infrastructure.
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In ground fiber <> wireless service. There's very little spectrum left for other companies to use.
 
Hypergreatthing said:
eh, t-mobile family plan is 100$ for 4 lines with 2.5 gigs of data, that's roughly 25$ each line.
Sure, + taxes, but i have a company discount of like 15% off the total cost.
Charging per gig is sort of crappy. Google should have gotten better deals or just started their own cell service where they already have fiber infrastructure.
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Or shoot, made deals with people like Crowne Castle and AT who own all of Verizon and ATTs towers and actually have large scale coverage everywhere.
 
I can't say I'm impressed.

I'm still on grandfathered unlimited data at a cool going rate of $30. Hopped on that bandwagon like 5 years ago... 10gb of data is what, more than 3x that or something stupid now?

Where is the progress? $10/GB is still absurd. Halve it and it'd just start to become reasonable.
 
TwiceOver said:
In ground fiber <> wireless service. There's very little spectrum left for other companies to use.
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Bullshit. There's a ton of spectrum left over. Fairly sure in a few years the FCC will auction off another segment that the DoD or Nasa has been sitting on but not using.
I understand that fiber != wireless, but having the infrastructure there lends to back hauling data. All you need is a repeater connected to the service and you're in business.
 
Whose towers is Google using? It's all about the coverage.
 
I pay $21 base per phone. Thats $21 for unlimited talk, text, and 1gb of data. If i need more data I can call or log into t-mobile and up it.

That said t-mobile needs a LOT more coverage, even just voice/text.
 
Xrave said:
If you have a world phone with CDMA and GSM, do you get the benefit of using both Sprint and Tmobile's towers, whichever are in range?
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Fi currently only works with Nexus 6 which has all the radios in it. And yes, it'll use whatever is in range. Which sadly isn't a whole lot.

There's much Sprint in the cities here, but not out in the country. And T-Mobile, they don't even have much 2G coverage to speak of in my entire state. Versus say Verizon that gets LTE all the way out deep in sage brush country.
 
If they launched this in Canada over *any* two networks, every single damn person would switch.

Compared to our pricing, this is bananapants cheap.
 
It uses T-Mobile!? Fuck! Worthless for me, T-Mobile coverage in downtown Miami sucks! I get 0.30mbps down in my office yet magically almost 5mbps upload.
 
lazz said:
If they launched this in Canada over *any* two networks, every single damn person would switch.

Compared to our pricing, this is bananapants cheap.
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^This

So glad my company pays my cellphone bill. My current plan has 4GB of data included with unlimited talk/text for a wallet burning $105/month.
 
So this is metered bandwidth and all you guys are saying it so great because its google but if this was Verizon what would you say? I distinctly remember all the arguments against metered bandwidth.
 
If they used AT&T towers I would probably be all over this.

I love T-Mobiles structure but hate their network in my area.
I use to use Sprint many, many moons ago, would rather not go back.
 
If any of you live in a large city, just check out craigslist.

There are always guys selling 90 day unlimited talk, text and data service for $45 - $50 bucks.

This is legal ( grey area ) corporate block numbers that they issue to you. These accounts come and go along with the numbers but I've never been ripped off. I use a google voice number anyways as my main number and that number can follow you where ever you go.

BTW if you don't have a Google Voice number, you're missing out ... it's free and awesome.

ALSO, MetroPCS has a new $30 a month plan, fees and taxes included. unlimited text, talk, maybe 1GB of data or it could be 3GB of data but you're limited to 4G. Plus, you have to buy the phone through them. But it sounds like a good plan.

Also, Solavei, an MVNO reseller ( T-Mobile ) has some o-k deals - http://www.solavei.com/en/mobile-service/plan-details
 
ocellaris said:
So $20 + $10/GB? Sounds decent if they would release some inexpensive phones that work on this.
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Something nobody in this thread seems to have mentioned or picked up on...

That $10/GB is prorated to the dollar.

You end up with a month where you only use 1.3GB and you paid for 2GB at $20? Your next bill will have a credit for $7 for the unused 700MB of data.
 
SixFootDuo said:
If any of you live in a large city, just check out craigslist.

There are always guys selling 90 day unlimited talk, text and data service for $45 - $50 bucks.
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Yeah, but what's the value worth of the 30-60 minutes per 90 days of your time to manage all that, plus the intangible associated stress?
 
SixFootDuo said:
ALSO, MetroPCS has a new $30 a month plan, fees and taxes included. unlimited text, talk, maybe 1GB of data or it could be 3GB of data but you're limited to 4G. Plus, you have to buy the phone through them. But it sounds like a good plan.
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Only works with older 4G phones, not any with LTE (if that makes a difference to you).

I signed up with MetroPCS, unlimited 4G for $50 (with no additional taxes/fees) plan not too long ago. Say what you will about shitty coverage, it works fine for where I usually am. I'll worry if I'm in the middle of no where without cell coverage when that time comes. Good speeds too at my house, nearly 50Mbps, I laugh whenever any app warns me I should be on WiFi to download it... my home internet is 10x slower (and costs more).

So that said, this is not for me in any way. Of course it might be nice for old people who just want a mobile phone and could give a fuck about using data.
 
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