Have you tried Spectrum Mobile? Tell us what you think about it!
I have been using Spectrum Mobile for about a year. It has actually been fine. I would say it is about 90% as good as my coverage with Verizon at 60% the cost. So I am living with it. My issue came today when I tried to move my 4 phone family plan at $45 per phone per month to their currently available $29.90 plan. Spectrum said I am not eligible for it. But if I cancelled and came back after 30 days, it would be available. Cmon Spectrum, wise up.
I was going to say ‘YIKES!’ to these prices. $30/mo or $45/mo? Absolutely not no way. But I note in the article that Spectrum will do “by the gig” for $14/mo. Much better, and essentially what I have with Commie Cast at $15/mo.
Xfinity is similar, requiring cable service, auto pay, and cleared credit. Well I was not about to give my Socialist number to Commie Cast. If it was hard and fast, I would not have it today. I bought my own compatible phone (2020 iPhone SE), had trouble ordering a SIM, and then called up to whine about why I could not order. Rep handled it and did not ask for Socialist number. After all I have been their cable customer for a number of months and never gave SS for it either. If I don’t pay cut me off what’s wrong with that! I have little trouble staying under 1 gigabyte.
I was using Spectrum Mobile as a by the gig customer. They would notify you if you were about to go over you data limit. But recently they have made changes, and now the lowest data limit that they will notify you at is 6gb. That is a $90 over charge @ $15 per gig! No Thank you Spectrum.
Doing “by the gig” and staying under 1 is not that hard if you pay attention. I have only gone over once or maybe twice in a couple of years.
Here is how I doit:
#1 rule: Don’t do video on the bloody phone!
#2 rule: Watch your sending and receiving of still pictures.
#3 rule: Use wi-fi.
#4 rule: Keep cellular data off when not needed.
#5 rule: Check you usage using provider app
So when you are out and about, checking your mail should be no problem. Turn on cellular data and then cut it back off, unless you have correspondents that like to send you big pitchers. Use startmail and they don’t give you graphics unless you ask. I also believe that modest audio streaming should be no big deal, like using pandora or spotify.
I moved my phone from AT&T to Spectrum. Where I live here in FL, AT&T does not have a great footprint. Verizon does. So far my coverage is better and the price is cheaper. I’m about to move my wife and daughter’s phones over.