[bubblethink]

Google Fi seems to have largely failed in achieving any meaningful goals. It had some promise early on, but its value proposition is pretty thin. Main points against:

1) Has fallen into the same trap of subsidizing expensive phones and phone plans over long periods and other rubbish discount deals for signing up (used to be the much hated contract model earlier with other carriers, but this is not very different) 2) Not a real carrier in a standards compliant way (or at least there is no open reference implementation). Needs play services blobs to do anything intelligent 3) Needs google account 4) Mucks up google voice 5) Not really price competitive for data

The only real thing going for it at the moment is roaming benefits. Once other carriers undercut that, what remains ? It anyway has low name recognition and no retail presence.

[RL_Quine]

It works for me quite well, but that’s because I’m almost always roaming. The experience of being able to have a pocket full of data SIMs at no code is great. Mostly I never see it, or think about it, it just works. Though honestly I’m sort of concerned for when it suddenly doesn’t.

[billh]

The same-rate international data is what keeps me on Fi. It's great not to have to worry about taking it in the shorts by the phone company when traveling somewhere. A friend of mine has one of the majors as his carrier and they were charging him $10/day for data in Europe, in 2019 that's just insane.

[cdaringe]

Fantastic customer service, achievable low cost of ownership