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Slovakia, 300GB for 13 EUR/month, no texts and calls included. Those are 5 cents I think.
The carrier has an agreement with another one for coverage extension, but with official FUP of 20GB in that network.
This carrier however disregards that and instead allows up to 80GB, but for a few months after enabling 4G from that other carrier the FUP wasn't applied at all.

But it's not all sunshine and rainbows.

It operates on that other network like MVNO, and if your phone decides to stick there, which people report happens a lot, say hello to far lower FUP instead. The carrier's own network is also generally far slower.
I also found a little network issue (tested with 2 phones) where receiving calls are broken in a fairly specific scenario, but I don't know how to report that. To keep it short, if VoLTE isn't available, when switching from 2 of the 4G bands to one of the 2G bands, the call fails to connect after several long seconds of silence on caller end, and no notification of failed call attempt is sent.

I can work around both issues by selecting specific bands as needed manually, but that generally requires root and use of app like Network Signal Guru (inconvenient).
This allows me to decide whether I want more data amount, faster network speed, better outgoing call coverage, or higher chance of receiving a call. Yeah... their network sucks.

I also believe they break the EU roam like at home regulation:

Most plans only have half the data amount it seems they should have, but maybe I just calculated that wrong.
But this plan I have has... ZERO data for EU roaming.

2 x (price of mobile bundle excluding VAT / regulated maximum wholesale cap per GB) = data limit (in GB) when roaming

Hmmm... how does that give a zero.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

In the US. Google Fi simply unlimited plan.

  • $40/mo per line for 2 lines
  • Unlimited texts/minutes
  • 35 GB before it starts throttling data to 256Kbps
  • Works in all of North America.
  • I usually pay an extra $15 per line while I'm traveling out of NA to get nearly the same service abroad.
[–] Nibodhika 4 points 1 day ago

I pay €90 a month for a package that includes:

  • 1 mobile number with unlimited data, sms and some ridiculous amount of minutes of calls I never use
  • 1 mobile number with all of the same except data limited to 30GB
  • Home internet with 1GB optic fiber and unlimited data
  • TV with hundred channels or so

I think if I wanted to get just the phone line it would be something like €10 a month for the unlimited data one. This is in Spain.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

circa 10€ for 10GB of data and unlimited calls, in Germany.

[–] qaz 3 points 1 day ago

About 10 euro for 12GB

[–] 2ugly2live 1 points 22 hours ago

Between $25-$30/month. It's technically a dollar per gig of data up to 10gb, but I don't leave the house often so I use only a couple dollars worth. Also unlimited text and talk. In the US.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

3€ per month
2GB
Germany

[–] beerclue 2 points 1 day ago
  • 5€/month for unlimited voice, text, net (romania) - I don't use this, since i moved away, but i've had this number since '99...
  • 35€/month for 25gb net, unlimited voice, text (germany) - it's a bit more expensive since it includes a phone as well (i got the pixel 8 when it came out).
  • 15-20€/month for 5-15gb and unlimited voice/text for my kids, also with phones (pixel 6a)
  • 45€/month for home Internet - 1000 down / 200 up (cable), unlimited + landline (which is not connected/in use.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Switzerland: Just upgraded my plan to 18.90CHF (21.45usd) for unlimited 5G (1700mbps), calls and text in Switzerland and 20GB, 100 minutes and texts in EU and UK. I haven't switched my number yet so I'll have to see what coverage is like, but it will likely be very good cause switzerland.

[–] solidgrue 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

USA. 4 lines with unlimited calls, text, and data. International calling and roaming throughout US, Canada & Mexico. Metered by the mjnute/megabyte for international (off-continent) travel. All in, $200 monthly.

(TMO, magenta plan which is now defunct)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Cheapest I could find in Sweden. Around 10€. I think it is 3GB data and unlimited calls and texts. Whatever data I don't use stacks up for a year or somesuch. I have WiFi at home and the office so I don't really need much data. I would go for a cheaper plan if it existed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sim only. 6€, unlimited calls and sms, 6GB 4G data. Netherlands.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

₹719 for 1 GB/Day + Unlimited Calls + 100 SMS/Day valid for 72 Days. Post daily quota, data speed will be upto 64Kbps. About 3.4 eur per month.

[–] Valmond 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

10€/month 5G "unlimited" (350GB IIRC before throttling). I think texts/SMS are unlimited and calls too but I just don't know as I send like 10 texts per months and make two 5 minute calls.

European roaming(edit: actually it's 110 countries) is I think 35GB 4G for free every month.

It was 20€ with a special 10€/month offer for a year, but when I asked for my RIO code to change they offered it like forever for 10€ so I stayed.

France.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] andrewta 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

About $30/month in the US. Unlimited data. Unlimited texting. Free long distance

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

UK; £10pm, SIM only, no contract, 20Gb data, unlimited calls/texts, some roaming included, not sure how much. They keep emailing me to say I should move to a £8pm plan because I never use all my data, but that's only 5Gb data and I don't want to run out in an emergency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Slovakia, 300GB for 13 EUR/month, no texts and calls included

4ka? I saw 15€ price for this plan on their website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, but I am a long time customer. They had a €2/month off offer, and that's still valid for me. But it only means €2 cheaper. When it got raised from 14 to 15, mine was raised from 12 to 13.

The offer is called "NAJVIAC".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

JMP.chat

$5 per Gig, $0.0087 per voice minute (Yes, that's about 1¢/min).

Unlimited text, but what's really great is they pipe all SMS into XMPP/Jabber. So I use an XMPP/Jabber app on any device to use SMS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I've been with Mint Mobile USA for 7 years now.

Same $15/month, for a Prepaid 12 months plan for ~$180/year

Used to be 2GB of 4G now it's 5GB of 5G.

Technically unlimited throttled slow data, good enough for maps/email after.

If anyone uses my link it should be +$15 referral credit bonus.

Can upgrade at anytime in a cycle, but can't downgrade, or also extra data buckets available.

End shilling

Also Ryan mails me an Xmas card every year ❤️.

They sent me a silly email today actually but hey...whatevs.

Copper is the traditional 7th-anniversary gift. Which makes sense considering 7 years ago you embarked on this wireless journey with us, saving tons of lucky pennies along the way. If you want to take a scroll down memory lane, we’ve compiled this year’s stats in your 7th Year in Review below. Keep being the awesome human you are, and we’ll keep things running in Mint-condition.

We’re lucky to have you,

Mint Fox

[–] macattack 2 points 1 day ago

I'm on the same plan.

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[–] QuarterSwede 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

US Mint Mobile $30/mo unlimited data, texts, calls. One of the best unlimited rates in the US. I use north of 12GB/mo so no limited plan is going to cut it for me.

[–] toiletobserver 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is true of all carriers here. It's such bullshit that they're allowed to use this verbiage when it's obviously not the case.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use north of 12GB/mo so no limited plan is going to cut it for me.

That's not even so much, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised about the US. Especially after I've seen crap like Unlimited data + 5GB hotspot. Excuse me, that is clearly a limit.

For reference, I've used 225GB on my data this month, but it's my only connection.

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[–] khannie 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ireland. €10 / around $11 USD a month for unlimited everything.

Limited to a 4G data connection. 15 a month if I want to move to 5G but I haven't had any real need for the extra speed since I'm mostly using WiFi.

Edit: just ran a speed test there. 42Mbps on the mobile connection.

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[–] Addv4 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

American, AT&T Prepaid 2gb data, think unlimited texting/calling, $30 a month. Mostly 4g lte, but I also can get 5g e.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I got mine a while ago so ive been grandfathered into 16gb data, unlimited text qjd calling for $25/month.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Here in the UK, I'm currently on unlimited everything, calls, messages and data, for £18 per month.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is it actually unlimited or some slow down after x amount?

[–] Nibodhika 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Three is truly unlimited. I used to have them when I lived in Ireland. For a year it was the only internet at my home, so I worked and had meetings daily with it, my wife would watch YouTube and her classes, and we would both watch Netflix and play some online games. All from hotspoting from our phones. Battery on the phones was a problem, but we never hit any sort of data caps with them, and we were using hundreds of GB per month for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd recommend getting a WiFi router with 4G/5G modem if you find yourself in that situation again.

[–] Nibodhika 2 points 1 day ago

But then that would beat the purpose of only paying one bill for both phone and internet at home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Nope. Truly unlimited and I'm allowed to tether it as well. So when I'm in hotels away at work, it's my source of internet for my tablet and laptop.

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[–] HeyJoe 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am lucky enough to have never had a cell phone bill to this day. I got my first real job in 2006, and before that, I lived with my parents and just used their flip phone when going out. I will say I was a little late, but for the most part nobody in my generation used cell phones except to actually get in touch with someone and that's it. Once at my job, I was handed a phone and number to use through the company. Since I was in IT, we basically controlled the phones and didn't care if it was used personally. I am still with the same company today, but there have been changes and got scary so now I just purchased an android phone, signed up for Google voice to give myself a free number and use wifi for everything else. When I leave the house I have the company phone turn on Hotspot and my personal connects to it, so it's basically like having everything a provider offers without a bill.

The single issue I have is that some services do not consider Google voice number a legit line so I can't use the number for sign-ups or mfa on like 15% of the accounts I use. Apple, and battle.net are 2 off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The single issue I have is that some services do not consider Google voice number a legit line

You can probably just get any cheapest prepaid SIM for that purpose.

[–] solrize 4 points 1 day ago

$10/m redpocket.com, US. 1gb/m 5g data plus some big amount of voice+sms. This is way more than I need. They have smaller plans too.

[–] kokesh 4 points 1 day ago

Sweden, cca 50eur/month. Unlimited 5G with free calls and text, 50gb within EU+ some other countries outside, free data sim (in my home modem), up to 4 extra data sim cards for 1.75eur/month.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Too much, not enough, Canada.

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