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I'll have to google LTE but IIRC, a friend of my was poking around
on my phone, trying to enable that, and couldn't do it. I mentioned
that I'm blind so a friend took my phone while we were out to lunch
and started checking to see if he could enable anything that might
help me make better use of it. He spent a considerable amount of
time trying to fix something with the data connection. He finally
gave up. I didn't really pay any attention though because the only
time I use my data plan is when I'm lost. The map app queries
Apple's map data to figure out where I am. <br>
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The original topic is living w/o a data plan. I get lost too often
not to have live map data but that seems to use kilobypes, not
gigabytes. Howerver, if you don't have a data plan, you can still
use the GPS on your iPhone with Navigon from Garment. It's $40 and
comes with downloadable map data. I used it for years on an iPod
Touch with a bluetooth GPS receiver. There were plenty of instances
when I was the only person in a group who could get directions
because we happened to be somewhere where nobody could get a data
connection. <br>
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<pre wrap="">Careful. That's Sprint, and I for one pretty well hate dealing with any of their services. Most other people I have known personally that have used them hate them too. Can't speak for all experiences everywhere but their LTE is as of 3 months ago total, err, shit.
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<pre wrap="">On Oct 22, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Jim Kinney <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jkinney@jimkinney.us"><jkinney@jimkinney.us></a> wrote:
My Verizon contract expires in Feb. They are gonna get dropped instantly. Heard multiple people saying good things about Ting. Gonna look if the OnePlus will run on their network. 99% of my time is in WiFi zone so data use is low. Can make the teen work off his texting bill :-)
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<pre wrap="">On October 22, 2014 4:28:40 PM EDT, Todor Fassl <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fassl.tod@gmail.com"><fassl.tod@gmail.com></a> wrote:
I got a refurbished iPhone 4S from Ting. My bill has been $15 each month so far ($6 subscription, $3 for up to 100 minutes of voice, $3 for up to 100 messages, and $3 for up to 100Gb). I've never been particularly close to going over the 100 limit on any of the 3 things. I don't know what happens if you do go over. I mean, I don't even know what the next payment level is.
Yeah, I like ting.
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<pre wrap="">On 10/22/14 13:50, David Ritchie wrote:
We have been happy with Ting (sprint Network, BYOD) for my son (bought a
used Samsung Galaxy S3 device off of glyde.com) . First bill was $25ish.
$6/mo for basic line, everything else is pay as you go. This is probably
better with mutliple lines (plan is next to move wife's Virgin Mobile
account over to Ting, but will probably need to get another phone if VM
won't unlock her prepaid one.)
-- David
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Calvin Harrigan <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:calvin.harrigan@gmail.com">calvin.harrigan@gmail.com</a>
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+1 for T-Mobile, especially for international travel. Unlimited text,
data, 20cents per minute back to the states from over 120 countries.
Coverage oversees was surprisingly good. No surprises, bill was exactly as
expected.
On 10/17/2014 10:56 AM, Greg Clifton wrote:
For some cheap plans, also consider Republic Wireless. They run on Sprint
Network, which seems to have pretty good coverage. You can only use the
phones that they sell, because they set the phones to ALWAYS prefer WiFi.
Then when you in a WiFi free zone, you can talk on the Sprint network. This
allows them to offer some very low priced plans (incluing data) since you
are rarely actually using Sprint's bandwidth. If you are mostly in the
city, you should haved no concerns about either WiFi or Sprint coverage.
The wife was on Sprint via Kroger's iWireless for a couple of years, and we
found that the coverage was pretty good even out in the boonies.
If you travel outside the USA, T-Mobile is definitely the way to go, no
data roaming charges. They also have a 4 phones for $100/month plan,
inclusive of unlimited talk, text and ample data for most mere mortals.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, JD <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com"><jdp@algoloma.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 10/17/2014 08:42 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
+1 for T-Mobile. Buy your phone used on swappa (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://swappa.com">http://swappa.com</a> ).
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<pre wrap="">A BYOD
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<pre wrap="">no-contract plan is currently $68 a month with 3 GB of data.
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<pre wrap="">t-mobile has daily unlimited plans for pay-as-you-go people for either
$2/day or
$3/day for 3G. These have unlimited talk+text+data (though 2G data is
limiting
and non-secure alone). If you don't need the phone too much, enabling
that from
the normal P-A-Y-G plan can save $$$hundreds yearly. If you have wifi
everywhere, do you really **need** data when around ATL?
On travel, I enable 2G t-mobile for the 7 days I need it. $14 - not bad.
In a
new city or one I haven't been in recently, it is convenient and saves
hassles.
Paying 10x more for convenience has always been the way of the world. No
different with cell phones, just like getting a 7-Eleven candy bar is more
expensive than walmart or a beer at the GA-Dome.
Of course, some people need the "status" for their jobs and I completely
understand that. After all, if you can't afford $1200/yr for a family
cell phone
plan, why should I let you install and configure $4M worth of equipment
into my
business?
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