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by fizzbatter 3666 days ago
As my tmo plan may suggest, i rarely use minutes. Fi only offers a minutes oriented plan, and i hate that pricing. Feels like i would be wasting money.

Oh, question for you if you don't mind: Since you were on Tmo, can you compare the reception/coverage for Fi vs Tmo? In theory Fi would have better reception due to more networks, but i'm not really sure how much Tmo and Sprint differ in network size/locations. Thoughts?

I'm in USA-WA and the hills/mountains really cause reception issues. So the reception coverage is important to me. (Nothing beats Verizon, unfortunately)

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Total Wireless offers a plan with unlimited talk and text and 5GB of data for $35 on Verizon's network. It is throttled at 5Mbps, but if you use little enough data to make Fi worthwhile I don't think that will be an issue for you.
Well, i'm more concerned about the data than talk or text. Most of the calls i make are done via Google on my laptop (free minutes), so i almost never need minutes on my phone. It's not the data price of Fi that bothers me, it's the flat $20 charge for Unlimited Talk/Text that i don't want to pay.

If they gave me $5 or $10/m for reduced talk, i'd be in heaven

Probably best summed up with "Nothing beats Verizon, unfortunately". I primarily use WiFi calling as I live in a gigantic concrete building facing the lake so I get literally zero cellular reception in my apartment.