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We No Longer Need a Big Carrier’s Wireless Plan. Discount Ones Are the Way. (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kalkulat to c/technology
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P.S. Some of the 'big' carriers, now and then, offer much less expensive 'plans'. Some event beat the prices in this article, if your 'Data' needs are limited.

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[–] rustydomino 3 points 1 year ago

I've been eyeing MVNO plans for awhile now. I bought a 3 month trial of Mint on a spare phone and it seems to work OK. But I've heard enough horror stories that I'm still very hesitant of porting my main number over. Downtime is unacceptable especially for key services like SMS.