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Do you guys in the US have small cellphone providers like this?

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Locut0s

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Up here in Canada we have seen the rise of a couple of very popular small cell phone service providers that offer very cheap plans. They tend to cover small geographic areas and may run on different frequencies (1700/2100) but they offer killer unlimited plans. The two that I know of here are Wind and Mobilicity. Both of them offer plans for around 30-40 a month that come with unlimited everything. Unlimited data, talk, text, and more. The catch is that you have to remain in their limited coverage areas, usually the greater metropolitan areas of large cities. Outside that you are on roaming and they charge you per min, per service. Still pretty cheap though. They are also usually contract free, you just pay for a fixed monthly bill for your plan (plus any roaming fees if you went outside their coverage area). You usually get fully unlocked phones.

These companies are becomming extremely popular here. The limited geographic coverage is something of a limiting factor but if you stay most of your time in those areas it should work well. Here is an example of one of the companies rate chart:

http://mobilicity.ca/plans/

Conflict of interest note, the company I work for does sell phones for this company but I'm not advertising here. I just want to know if you guys in the states have similar small startups offering these types of limit coverage unlimited service.
 
there's one that's around here called metro pcs that sells like unlimited everything plans super cheap and the billboard I saw sitting in traffic today was advertising 4gLTE so they probably just upgraded their shit or whomever they piggy back on did. I don't know how their service is though.
 
we have a few! it's gonna make the big co's compete or fuck off...

straight talk is one, although it's almost nationwide now... 35 bucks a month unlimited everything..

also metroPCS is the same type of thing...
 
Cricket wireless, boost mobile, another one i'm not thinking of. They are not terribly successful compared to the big names, I don't think.

edit: MetroPCS was it.
 
We have many in the states. You can't get the latest phones and whatever phone you want that's available, you have to pay for it in full.
 
yeah if you could use an iphone on straight talk, it would be over...

but till then..

straight talk with a crappy phone that can play flash video is better than 150 bucks a month and an iphone
 
apac said:
Cricket wireless, boost mobile, another one i'm not thinking of. They are not terribly successful compared to the big names, I don't think.

edit: MetroPCS was it.
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Umm... Boost Mobile is just Sprint/Nextel's pre-paid brand. That's not the same thing at all.
 
Alone said:
Wait, wait, wait...

Are you saying I can use my existing phone (Blackberry Torch/9800) and get a plan for $40/mo and have unlimited...everything? ...Everything?

Please tell me you're fucking with me. I pay about $65/mo now and I get barely anything.
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Are you in Canada?
 
Alone said:
Wait, wait, wait...

Are you saying I can use my existing phone (Blackberry Torch/9800) and get a plan for $40/mo and have unlimited...everything? ...Everything?

Please tell me you're fucking with me. I pay about $65/mo now and I get barely anything.
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wow that is badass.. we get so fucked in the US...
 
The funny thing is that if it truly is unlimited everything for $40/month, I can actually scale my current contract plan down to $15-20 a month, sign up for this shit, and still save money and have extra features.
 
zerocool84 said:
You can get everything unlimited plans like that here in the States, you just have to use the carrier's crappy phones.
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yeah, that's what im doing right now.. using straight talk, it's cheap, unlimited... but.. phone sucks lol..

im not clear on whether or not you can use the service in the link he provided with decent phones (it says blackberry internet access) however if you could, that would be pretty awesome...
 
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