Currently have 7 lines with Verizon for the last 3 years (AT&T for many before that). Any one try Mint?
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Not Mint, but I had Verizon and swapped to US Mobile, which also uses Verizon towers.
I pay $25 a month for unlimited everything.
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Ive been using mint for the past 4 years (coming from fi, so plenty experience with mvnos) with no issues. Its just me on the plan though.
I live in a major city, and have never had any issues with service throttling even at sports or music events.
My main draw was the affordability and the ability to pay once a year. If you have any questions, ask and ill do my best to answer
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I’m not familiar with Fi or mvnos.
Does mint use Verizon towers too?
Mint uses T-Mobile towers. I’ve being using Mint for about 4 years. The T-Mobile signal is about zero at my house, but I use Wi-Fi at home. I live in the country. Verizon towers are better here, but I’m kind of used to the paying once a year and Mint works fine in town. You should probably base your decision on which of the big 3 works best in your area. All the smaller companies piggyback off of the big 3
MVNOs are the smaller companies that buy bandwidth from the big 3.
Edit: Make that 6 years. Damn how time flys!
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Been using mint for a while no difference noticeable to me. The app is great!
The only time I notice a difference is when Im in a really crowded area like a festival or a concert. Then your data speeds might drop!
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Thank you, fellas. I too live in the sticks and signal for both AT&T and Verizon stinks. Also rely on WiFi calling. T-Mobile can’t be any worse I guess.
I like the once/year payment concept.
We’ll have to dump 2 lines I guess if we go with Mint.
Mint is great. Good choice. It’s way cheaper too
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I use t mobile which mint uses their network and I like it over ATT for signal coverage.
Sprint used to have allot of low band towers when they bought Nextel back in the day so T-Mobile still has allot of that massive old infrastructure they have upgraded to meet 4g /5g requirements. Sadly they kind of threw away that lead over time and all three big providers (T-Mobile, Verizon and ATT) in the US are fairly similar service level now…
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Yes actually, I’ve used mint for the last few years and it’s been decent. It’s cheap and gets the job done! I have better service where I live now, but when I lived in Utah it was hit or miss but that was a few years ago and I think their service map has improved since then. No major complaints on my end!
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i’ve been using mint since 2019? switched phones a handful of times, and i had particular issues with setting up a sony xz1 compact back in the day. been on an iphone 13 mini for a while no and have no issues. my partner switched over to mint using a samsung s23 fe and has been having consistent problems with connection quality. so your mileage may vary
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I’m using a S23 FE too.I had a S10e before that.
Ryan Reynolds is a subpar actor. Mint Mobile, however, I’ve heard good things about.
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Subpar !?!? I think he sold his share of Mint.
Oh, I wasn’t aware that he’s not a part of Mint anymore, my mistake.
Apparently it’s been sold to T-Mobile. I just found that out. Reynolds had a 25% stake’
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I’ve been using Mint for over 5 years now and I’ve always been pretty satisfied with it. The only time I really lose signal is on longer roadtrips in the middle of nowhere, but my friends with Verizon and T-Mobile tend to lose service in those spots too. I used to pay for a plan with only 1 Gb of data. Eventually, they upgraded everybody at that price-level to 2 Gb for no extra charge. Then they made it 5 Gb and the price level has still remained the same. One of the only times I’ve ever experienced a company like that actually adding value without screwing you over afterwards, so that was kind of cool.
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I’ve been on mint for almost 3 years.
The only minor issues I’ve had were no good international travel plans and a relatively small hotspot cap (though other plans might be the same in terms of hotspot).
I’m pretty sure they got bought by TMobile, though I think they’ve always run off TMobile towers.
I have noticed that it can lag compared to my wife’s phone service when in densely populated areas, but those issues have been minor.
Coverage wise, it’s been as good to me as Verizon, at least where I live and travel - traveled all over CA, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas and coverage has been solid.
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Not mint, but Visible is awesome. I’ve been with them for two years and don’t think I could go back to anything else. They’ve got a a $20 plan that is pretty good, but the $40 plan is STELLAR. Especially if you find yourself in spots where a lot of people are trying to access their phone lines at one time (big magic tourneys - when pairings get posted).
Depends where you live too tho. If Verizon has done you well with coverage, Visible is their “budget” brand, so you’ll have nearly exactly the same coverage. I grew up in a tiny Iowa town, so ATT and T Mobile don’t even think about coverage there.
I can give you my referral link if you wanna try Visible, but that is not the reason I speak so highly.
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