Cell providers 2025…what we using?

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What’s good these days? Been with Verizon forever, but it just keeps getting more expensive with more BS fees thrown in. Seems like both the other major plan providers are the same pile of •, advertise one price but once you tack on all the fees it’s within a couple bucks. Prepaid options look interesting, but internet research has gotten so polluted with paid reviews and AI hallucinations that i can’t make heads or tails of what’s good and what sucks. Seems like every one of the prepaids has horror stories of trying to get numbers ported over, BS fees being added and can’t get rid of, etc.

The entire industry feels like the worst of modern capitalist en•tification so any real world input from real people would be great.

If it matters it’s just 2 of us for now with me the globetrotter, and it’ll be a few years yet before we think about tacking a kid on.
 
TMobile. Take in a business card, unlimited 5G and no throttling (unless you're into that and have a mutually-established a safe word)
 
Entirely dependent on coverage in your area. I have Verizon and I only fly internstional. I’ve found that downloading the offline maps ahead of time works for me and almost every place has wifi. Plus I think I get like 10 travel pass international days per year. I haven’t switched to t mobile because it sucks by my house. No point in having great coverage overseas if I can’t even make a call in my living room.
 
Jordan793 said:
Entirely dependent on coverage in your area. I have Verizon and I only fly internstional. I’ve found that downloading the offline maps ahead of time works for me and almost every place has wifi. Plus I think I get like 10 travel pass international days per year. I haven’t switched to t mobile because it sucks by my house. No point in having great coverage overseas if I can’t even make a call in my living room.
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I’ve turned to Mexico twice and been to YVR 3-4 times in the last year, international really isn’t that big a deal to me. No real problems with Verizon, just that they keep jacking up the price but I’m sure everyone else is doing the same thing.

Nobody using any of the pay as you go providers?
 
Roger Roger said:
I’ve turned to Mexico twice and been to YVR 3-4 times in the last year, international really isn’t that big a deal to me. No real problems with Verizon, just that they keep jacking up the price but I’m sure everyone else is doing the same thing.

Nobody using any of the pay as you go providers?
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AT&T works in the villages and it’s not GCI which is a bonus.
 
T-Mobile here. On the military plan. 6 lines, unlimited data, hotspot..... $120/month. Been all over the country as well as Mexico, Oman, Souda Bay....No issuers at all....
 
Roger Roger said:
What’s good these days? Been with Verizon forever, but it just keeps getting more expensive with more BS fees thrown in. Seems like both the other major plan providers are the same pile of •, advertise one price but once you tack on all the fees it’s within a couple bucks. Prepaid options look interesting, but internet research has gotten so polluted with paid reviews and AI hallucinations that i can’t make heads or tails of what’s good and what sucks. Seems like every one of the prepaids has horror stories of trying to get numbers ported over, BS fees being added and can’t get rid of, etc.

The entire industry feels like the worst of modern capitalist en•tification so any real world input from real people would be great.

If it matters it’s just 2 of us for now with me the globetrotter, and it’ll be a few years yet before we think about tacking a kid on.
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I use verizon, I haven't found anything better here in Anchorage if you don't want to be mugged for your cell phone connecting when you forget to turn it off and ping a tower in BC on the way to seattle.
 
Roger Roger said:
I’ve turned to Mexico twice and been to YVR 3-4 times in the last year, international really isn’t that big a deal to me. No real problems with Verizon, just that they keep jacking up the price but I’m sure everyone else is doing the same thing.

Nobody using any of the pay as you go providers?
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Hows YVR? I have a bunch of YYZ trips next month, didn't even realize we did the couve. Also, I do Verizon as well. Mostly 1-2 bars on this island, intermittent "welcome to Canada" texts if I'm on the west side near my house. Also fun, just got an end of 3 day turn removed from an upcoming trip for illegality (don't know why?) and CA credit adjusted -2+ hrs to account. Wondering what they might be trying to pull on me? Waiting with baited breath for skeds to answer why I was illegal, and why my pay was apparently adjusted (even if illegal, which PBS should preclude, not even talking contractual protections)
 
ATT here. Looked into switching to T-Mobile, but it was actually more expensive. International is $10/day, which sucks, but international per diem covers it.
 
///AMG said:
Hows YVR? I have a bunch of YYZ trips next month, didn't even realize we did the couve. Also, I do Verizon as well. Mostly 1-2 bars on this island, intermittent "welcome to Canada" texts if I'm on the west side near my house. Also fun, just got an end of 3 day turn removed from an upcoming trip for illegality (don't know why?) and CA credit adjusted -2+ hrs to account. Wondering what they might be trying to pull on me? Waiting with baited breath for skeds to answer why I was illegal, and why my pay was apparently adjusted (even if illegal, which PBS should preclude, not even talking contractual protections)
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YVR is amazing. Beautiful city. Lots to do.

Eye wateringly expensive to live in
 
I love YVR. It reminds me of Seattle, except Canadians.

I like to rent a bike (many shops available) and take a ride around Stanley Park. Then do some rooftop food/drinks at Tap and Barrel while watching the seaplanes.
 
For those following my short-lived scheduling saga, I'm an idiot and failed to look at our payroll website which still shows my original pay. But one does learn things when you reach out to people and ask questions.
 
killbilly said:
YVR is amazing. Beautiful city. Lots to do.

Eye wateringly expensive to live in
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oh yeah its great there, and you're right, owning a home must be costly. Even the Surrey area seems a bit steep on Canadian Redfin, though to be fair, that is CAD so maybe it just seems really high if you don't do the math :)
 
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