86BravoPapa
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Any pilots have experience with Mint Mobile? Curious as to their coverage throughout the US (mostly concerned with call coverage) and international roaming.
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Mint Mobile
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As for the US it runs on tmobiles backbone so shouldnt be any issues
" Mint Mobile is an American telecommunications company which sells mobile phone services and operates as an MVNO on T-Mobile’s cellular network in the United States."
killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
Mint Mobile is an MVNO carrier that uses T-mobile, so their network coverage applies.
Your traffic - when busy - will be de-prioritized over "native" T-mobile traffic. Part of the reason it's cheaper.
invadertim
In my experence, its always my fault.
I had mint for 3 months, mostly NE flying. Data coverage was miserable, I couldn't get it in any airports really. Voice was a bit better, but still bad. International just didn't work at all.
Funny but true; I got a text from them saying I didn't really need an unlimited data plan, because I didn't seem to be using that much. Of course I wasn't using much, I couldn't ever get data coverage to use.
I'm in the process of migrating to T Mobile.
Funny but true; I got a text from them saying I didn't really need an unlimited data plan, because I didn't seem to be using that much. Of course I wasn't using much, I couldn't ever get data coverage to use.
I'm in the process of migrating to T Mobile.
86BravoPapa
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That's what I was afraid of; thanks for the response. And thank you to the other replies, as well.
CoffeeIcePapers
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There’s always network congestion at the airport due to limited towers and lots of people. Mvno get the lowest priority.
fholbert
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Unless your bar is really low I’d advise against it.
MidlifeFlyer
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They have a good discount for seniors with some perks, so I really wanted to give T-Mobile a go. They were running a promo where they sent you a preprogrammed hotspot unit with a month free, so you could try out the quality.
Despite numerous attempts, including 3 calls to customer service over the course of a week, their hotspot unit rejected every attempt to connect to their mobile network.
Since the best servIce one will ever get is when someone is trying to sell you something, the "trial" told me everything I need to know.
fholbert
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Both my wife and I went to T-Mobile for the over 55 plan, great price. My employer pays for my phone, so I’m not sure why…
Not sure I understand the Hotspot thing since any phone can be a hot spot.
With Verizon I could sent a text at 10,000 or 12,000 feet assuming I was passing a city or highway.
At 3,000‘ over Disneyland T-Mobile can’t send a text. WTF?
With Verizon I would hike Catalina island alone with strong cell coverage anywhere on the island.
T-Mobile gives me a no service even at the Catalina Airport where the cell antennas are on top of the hangar. However the T-Mobile map shows they have strong coverage at Catalina Island.
Point is I've never has an issue with T-mobile service. Ymmv.
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Adler
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Wife uses it, no issues whatsoever.
melax
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T-Mobile user for a very long time, zero issues, I travel all over the world and have no problems, data is free in most countries. the only time T-mobile doesn't work well is in Africa, it can be expensive, but I have unlocked phones for that purpose and with a few bucks I get local sim cards. We use the SAT phones as a last resort or for security reasons.
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Adler
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GoogleFi
Cessnaflyer
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Are you still locked into an Android phone?
MidlifeFlyer
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It was just a way to try out their service at no charge without having to cancel your existing plan or change phone carriers even temporarily. Turn on their hotspot unit. Connect to it with whatever phone you have. Use T-Mobile data instead of your own and do WiFi calling through it. I thought it was an excellent idea. A true trial with no strings attached. Unfortunately it was poorly executed and supported.
MidlifeFlyer
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Locked?
Every time I've thought of switching to an iPhone (and only because of Foreflight) I've ended up looking myself in the mirror and saying, "what, are you nuts?"