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[Q] Prepaid Plans

What's the best company that offers unlimited prepaid plans out there?

Well here in the UK the best value for money on payg is 3.
I top up by £15 a month and get 300mins, 3000 txts and truely unlimited internet
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Since your in the U.S. And, on AT&T....
I'd recommend either
Straight Talk: 45$ a month unlimited talk/text however, they have nebulous TOS regarding their data limits. It's been discussed that you use about 2GB a month or 100MB a day without issue (being throttled or thrown off the network, with no refunds)
H20: 60$ unlimited talk/text/2GB data
Redpocket: 55$ unlimited talk/text/1GB data
Those are the ones that use AT&T's network and would be compatible with any locked (or unlocked) AT&T device.
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Have you heard of Lightyear Wireless?
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In india
Tata docomo Gives 8gb data for inr 149
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Swedish telenor, Unlimited data ( yeah, really) calls from 0.25€ / minute. To get unlimited data, you need to buy a refill for about 30€
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alkesh95 said:
In india
Tata docomo Gives 8gb data for inr 149
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Freaking slow 2G speeds.. Not even enough to browse XDA..
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since you are from the US,
StraightTalk: $45 Unlimited everything, $60 unlimited international everything runs on TMO and AT&T HSPA+ for BYOP SIMs
Net10: $50 unlimited everything, runs on cingular AT&T networks,
AT&T PayGo: different rates a little expensive but its very flexible
here in my country:
Sun Cellular- $23.80 (1000 php) HSPA + no data caps
Smart- $23.80 (1000 php) HSPA + 50gb data cap
Smart- $74.23 (3500 php) LTE no data cap until october 25
Globe- $23.80 (1000 php) HSPA + 50gb data cap

heinrichkaiser said:
Freaking slow 2G speeds.. Not even enough to browse XDA..
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I don't know why but I get good speed even on 2g......
Sufficient for me....
Xda also works with that speed
Prove me wrong
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I heard about Lightyear Wireless and from what I know, they offer Unlimited calling, texting, and internet (without caps) for only $59.99. No contract, no deposits, and no credit checks. From what I've learned also, they're using Sprint towers for their service and that would mean, no GSM phones. :thumbdown:
They also have a referral program where you can get a FREE service if you use their service and refer 5 more customers to use the service as well.
Anyone tried this company before? Anybody knows the quality of their network?
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Sprint Pre-Order 16GB only!

For those of you planning to get the device with 32GB on Sprint, you are out of luck
I called Sprint to pre-order and they only have 16GB. The rep does not know if Sprint will carry the 32GB

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For those of you planning to get the device with 32GB on Sprint, you are out of luck
I called Sprint to pre-order and they only have 16GB. The rep does not know if Sprint will carry the 32GB
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the 32gb from the play store works on sprint you just have to get one of their lte sims. This was confirmed yesterday

2.0t03speed said:
the 32gb from the play store works on sprint you just have to get one of their lte sims. This was confirmed yesterday
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I did order from the play store.
The reason I called Sprint for pre-order is that my line is eligible for update and I want to take advantage of the savings by renewing my contract.
If Google makes the 64GB available, I will go for it

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the 32gb from the play store works on sprint you just have to get one of their lte sims. This was confirmed yesterday
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Do you know the process for getting the sim?
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If you order through sprint at the discounted and subsidized price, will the phone be locked into sprints network? If so, will sprint allow unlocking at the end of the contract?
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freshlysqueezed said:
If you order through sprint at the discounted and subsidized price, will the phone be locked into sprints network? If so, will sprint allow unlocking at the end of the contract?
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It won't be locked, You can leave after contact.
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freshlysqueezed said:
If you order through sprint at the discounted and subsidized price, will the phone be locked into sprints network? If so, will sprint allow unlocking at the end of the contract?
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If true, that's quite a discount.
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Just get it on Google Play. It's cheaper there anyway. Why would you pay a contract fee when it's cheaper to go off-contract and get sim-only contract?

mevensen said:
Do you know the process for getting the sim?
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If it's the same as when i needed a SIM for an iPhone 5 a while ago, walk into a store and ask for a SIM. They wanted to charge me $50 for a SIM. I pulled the saddest sob story ever and the manager felt sorry and gave me one for free since it was my "first" time.

I used my dads upgrade! I get a 16 GB one for about $86. $50 rebate and selling my Glxy 3 for $80.
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Confirmed on sprint. Sprint will activate in store with a UICC sim on 11/08/13
https://community.sprint.com/baw/message/670687

So I can't just call and activate? Lol. My N5 is set to arrive tomorrow but I am out of town on a business trip.... Won't be home until late Wednesday night now I need to head to the sprint store first thing Thursday morning. Ugh. So excited!
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Wait until 11/8? Lame. My phone arrives tomorrow I'll try an earlier activation

lolcopter said:
Wait until 11/8? Lame. My phone arrives tomorrow I'll try an earlier activation
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Keep us posted!
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Does anyone know if the Nexus 5 that Sprint will be selling is unlocked?
I had a plan to buy it from Sprint, pay it off and then cancel my service with Sprint. (Don't ask why)
So I need to know if I can just take it and get it activated at T-Mobile after I cancel Sprint.

I'm definitely going to try and activate this sooner. My phone arrives today. Will check Sprint stores and Best Buy for the sim.

godslam said:
Does anyone know if the Nexus 5 that Sprint will be selling is unlocked?
I had a plan to buy it from Sprint, pay it off and then cancel my service with Sprint. (Don't ask why)
So I need to know if I can just take it and get it activated at T-Mobile after I cancel Sprint.
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They're selling the same model as the one on the playstore, which is unlocked.

Have you got your tracking numbers for Sprint yet, the suspense is killing me. Should have ordered from the play store.
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riggs170 said:
Have you got your tracking numbers for Sprint yet, the suspense is killing me. Should have ordered from the play store.
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If you didn't buy it in the initial hour of release the play store is backed up for weeks (mine arrives today, but alas, I will not be home until Wed...
I'm assuming the sprint pre-orders won't ship until the 8th? May be quicker for you to just snag one at the sprint store..
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It sucks that they want to charge for a SIM. Maybe I can weasel out of it since my original plan was to just pay the $100 ETF and switch it to T-Mo prepaid. If it gets them more money, maybe they'll give me a SIM so I stick around for another few months out of laziness.
Basically I figured $100 to switch to TMo early was worth it since I'll be paying $30/mo instead of $80 and my contract has 4 months left on it. But if I can get the SIM for free and easily switch to TMo after the contract ends, I may just stick around for now.
The only thing that sucks is that 11/8 date. I could go to Walmart and get a TMo SIM tomorrow once my phone gets here but if I stay with Sprint a little longer, I'll only be able to play with it on WiFi until Friday.
Hmmm.....

T-Mobile paying ETF now if you want to leave sprint

"T-Mobile 'Get out of Jail Free Card' pays contract cutters up to $650 per line" http://feedly.com/k/1dwQMyQ
I'm thinking it would be a lot nicer to have a gsm One 2 than a cdma one. Have at it guys!
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New link that works
http://www.androidguys.com/2014/01/...free-card-pays-contract-cutters-650-per-line/

No disrespect to the devs here in sprintland, it's all about the updates
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Thanks !!!
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FrozenRiff said:
"T-Mobile 'Get out of Jail Free Card' pays contract cutters up to $650 per line" http://feedly.com/k/1dwQMyQ
I'm thinking it would be a lot nicer to have a gsm One 2 than a cdma one. Have at it guys!
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Taking this.. thanks!

Link returns bad
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tommason1968 said:
Link returns bad
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Try this one
http://www.androidguys.com/2014/01/...free-card-pays-contract-cutters-650-per-line/

So many people are about to be gone...me too maybe lol.

Lancerz said:
So many people are about to be gone...me too maybe lol.
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Sprint better step it up, that is all. Framily plans don't cut it
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FrozenRiff said:
Sprint better step it up, that is all. Framily plans don't cut it
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Exactly, all these new plans Sprint is coming out with end up costing us more money than the plans we already have so why would we switch to them.

This is really tempting since T Mobile has better coverage and more 4G where I live than Sprint.
I'm going to scope it out. Might be something to jump on.
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Well I went to the website to check out how much it would be for 2 lines and it would end up costing more on T Mobile. First off you HAVE to finance a device or pay the full price up front. So 2 lines with unlimited everything comes up to $120 per month plus if I were to get 2 HTC Ones that would be an extra $50 per month. So $170 before taxes and fees. I think you have to buy the insurance also but I'm not sure. I'm going to go into a TMobile store and check it out for sure though.
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I don't understand why people think these no contract plans are any better than signing a contract.
Why would you want to be on the hook for paying off a 600$ device rather than paying a 200$ early termination fee..
Sprint has the cheapest plans of the major providers flat out, and the network is improving quickly
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T-Mobile has no 3g or 4g in my area, they only have edge no way I'm leaving Sprint for that at least with Sprint I have Damn Good 4g and 3g.
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T-Mobile has no 3g or 4g in my area, they only have edge no way I'm leaving Sprint for that at least with Sprint I have Damn Good 4g and 3g.
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T-Mobile can go away already..
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This isn't for everyone but for those who are in bad sprint areas would like it or those who complain about the long wait for updates would like it too since gsm always gets the update first
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FrozenRiff said:
This isn't for everyone but for those who are in bad sprint areas would like it or those who complain about the long wait for updates would like it too since gsm always gets the update first
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Exactly. Good info for those who want it. Those who don't shouldn't complain, just stay where they're at. Already sent a link to a friend who was talking about jumping ship from Verizon.
Sent from space...

Yeah I'd rather have my text messages send and receive normally. Past T-Mobile people I've texted have told me of "texting issues" and the whole "edge" thing. No thanks, if my LTE drops, at least 3G is faster than edge. And I'm not giving up my unlimited 4G LTE & tethering. As for upgrades... If I really want the phone like my two HTC Ones then I pay full price. T-Mobile sounds good and all but i know there's a catch there some here. And Sprint made me happy thay my AT&T friends with extreme speeds sometimes ask me to lend my portable hotspot when their LTE drops to HSPA or Edge.
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I went to a T-Mobile store today to inquire about it. What kills it for me is that you HAVE to purchase a device from them, and our Ones are only worth $106 in trade-in. Doesn't seem fair when I could sell it on CL for $275. The cost would work out roughly the same. $86/month. They also don't pay the ETF directly. You have to cover it, then you get a prepaid MasterCard in 4-8 weeks. So to start the plan, you're looking at potentially hundreds of dollars.
Yeah, it's contract free, but it's not really worth it in my opinion. Sprint does just fine in Metro Atlanta, and as much as I feel I'm getting boned by them, it's the smallest in the long list of dicks that are phone companies.

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I went to a T-Mobile store today to inquire about it. What kills it for me is that you HAVE to purchase a device from them, and our Ones are only worth $106 in trade-in. Doesn't seem fair when I could sell it on CL for $275. The cost would work out roughly the same. $86/month. They also don't pay the ETF directly. You have to cover it, then you get a prepaid MasterCard in 4-8 weeks. So to start the plan, you're looking at potentially hundreds of dollars.
Yeah, it's contract free, but it's not really worth it in my opinion. Sprint does just fine in Metro Atlanta, and as much as I feel I'm getting boned by them, it's the smallest in the long list of dicks that are phone companies.
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Yeah, what he said! I work in Pendergrass, Geogia, which is about 90 miles north of metro Atlanta, and formerly a 3G area if I was lucky. Within the last four months it has gone from spotty 3G to 2 bars of LTE. And that's literally out in the boonies. That much improvement that fast is worth hanging around, especially with the whole Mastercard bait and switch crap. Sprint is really earning my business these days. My penny and a half...

LG G2 on Verizon Edge

I'm coming from at&t to Verizon. I just ordered a g2 on the Verizon edge plan. I'm the type that likes to switch phones yearly..so I'm hoping this plan isn't riddled with hidden BS. Anyone care to elaborate on the pros/cons that may not be widely known about this plan?
Looking forward to Verizons strong coverage..thanks guys
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Rippley05 said:
I'm coming from at&t to Verizon. I just ordered a g2 on the Verizon edge plan. I'm the type that likes to switch phones yearly..so I'm hoping this plan isn't riddled with hidden BS. Anyone care to elaborate on the pros/cons that may not be widely known about this plan?
Looking forward to Verizons strong coverage..thanks guys
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You're paying about 88 more than a 2 year contract over those 12 months, and if you ever decide you don't want to upgrade you still have to end up paying the full retail of the phone.
not to mention you have to trade your phone back in whenever you do decide to upgrade, its kind of a bunk deal if you ever want to get out of service with them.

You do have to trade yout phone back in, but you only have you pay 50% of the phones retail value in order to upgrade.

I knew there would be some drawbacks...but we'll see. Thanks guys
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Could whoever is using Att svc on tmobile Gs6 please recommend a good plan

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This is what I use.
http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans/voice/sku6280283.html

I use cricket wireless. 60 a month 10gb of LTE with unlimited data

Z51 said:
I use cricket wireless. 60 a month 10gb of LTE with unlimited data
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Only bad thing with Cricket is that the data speeds are throttled.
If you can live with slower data, it's great.

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I have four lines on my account with ATT we get 15gb per month with rollover for any unused data - and it runs roughly 55 per phone per month
works for us pretty well...

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Only bad thing with Cricket is that the data speeds are throttled.
If you can live with slower data, it's great.
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It's not bad at all. I use it stream Pandora and Spotify. It does so without a hiccup. Also Netflix and hulu. It works better than t-mobile for me. My friend has 80 tmobile plan and my Internet is faster. Ha.

Does straight talk have better plans than Att? Thanks
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Does straight talk have better plans than Att? Thanks
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Yes, price wise. The max speeds you can get on Cricket is 8mbs down. They had a promo a few months back, their best plan which comes with 10gb of data for $60, they doubled it to 20gb data for the same price, with auto pay on you could get 20gb of LTE data for $55 a month, then throttled to 2g for remainder of the month. Hell, even I was tempted to jump on that offer.

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Yes, price wise. The max speeds you can get on Cricket is 8mbs down. They had a promo a few months back, their best plan which comes with 10gb of data for $60, they doubled it to 20gb data for the same price, with auto pay on you could get 20gb of LTE data for $55 a month, then throttled to 2g for remainder of the month. Hell, even I was tempted to jump on that offer.
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So if I used cricket which is Att right?Do I just need to buy a Att sim card and a reload card to get going? Thanks In advance!!!
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xda23 said:
So if I used cricket which is Att right?Do I just need to buy a Att sim card and a reload card to get going? Thanks In advance!!!
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No you need a Cricket Wireless sim, you can order one from their website or get them at most any Wal-Mart's.
They were bought out by ATT and operate on ATT towers, so same coverage as ATT.

Is anyone using I-wireless for there wireless carrier?If yes how good is there service? Thanks In advance!!!
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Is anyone using I-wireless for there wireless carrier?If yes how good is there service? Thanks In advance!!!
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I-Wireless runs on the Sprint network, not sure why you would want to goto Sprint, instead of ATT, but those price suck compared what you can get directly through Sprint.
For $60, you can get unlimited everything, including unlimited LTE Data.
http://tinyurl.com/qbggr5l
Sprint's Unlimited ^

mvjunkie said:
I-Wireless runs on the Sprint network, not sure why you would want to goto Sprint, instead of ATT, but those price suck compared what you can get directly through Sprint.
For $60, you can get unlimited everything, including unlimited LTE Data.
http://tinyurl.com/qbggr5l
Sprint's Unlimited ^
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I dont I was just checking prices.Im going to try cricket which is Att service. Thanks!!!
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