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I used Ringplus for a year before upgrading to a low cost plan. Then the company went bankrupt.
Wavenation has dropped their unlimited voice and text to $7 a month. Low cost new phones (no BYOD) are a choice of
$39 Coolpad Arise
$79 Motorola Moto E https://www.wavenation.com/en#link-home-plans
Unless you are completely financially indigent, I don't recommend going to Freemium just to save money. The company has zero reason to be loyal or to help.
I've been trying out Freedompop and it's working out quite well for me. Here are some insider tricks to have a truly free service:
- immediately downgrade your plan to the free one (200mb data per month) and downgrade 'premium' services to no services. You do this on the website and you can downgrade before your SIM card ships. That way your service really is free and you won't get any surprise charges.
- Get a bunch of 'Freedom Friends' so you get up to an extra 500mb each month. There are specific places where you can list your email and grab a bunch of emails others left and paste those into the connect with friends field to connect with others. Send out the invite email from your Freedompop account and in a day or so you'll have 10 or more connected friends. Each Freedom friend you connect with gives you 50mb of data each month up to the limit of 500mb.
- If you purchase more than 1 SIM card, create a new account, with a different email address, before ordering the 2nd, 3rd, next card. 1 SIM card per account. That way you won't have to share your Freedom Friends 500mb bonus minutes between SIM cards.
- To avoid any top-up charges, set your phone for 100mb less data than your plan. So for instance if you have 700mb data for the month, set your cell phone for a limit of 600mb data and don't allow yourself to go over. Freedompop does a "top-up" charge if you go below that 100mb threshold to protect themselves since there's a lag in accounting for actual data used .
- Get one of the AT&T LTE SIM cards as you'll get 4G speed, and have a US-based IP address. The Global SIM cards will only give you HSPA speed, not 4G, and those cards are registered to Freedompop in the UK so your service is slow.
- Use Google Voice with your Freedompop service and use the GV Hangouts app to make & receive calls. FP uses VOIP, and you do not have to use their app for calls or texts.
I've been trying out Freedompop and it's working out quite well for me. Here are some insider tricks to have a truly free service:
- immediately downgrade your plan to the free one (200mb data per month) and downgrade 'premium' services to no services. You do this on the website and you can downgrade before your SIM card ships. That way your service really is free and you won't get any surprise charges.
- Get a bunch of 'Freedom Friends' so you get up to an extra 500mb each month. There are specific places where you can list your email and grab a bunch of emails others left and paste those into the connect with friends field to connect with others. Send out the invite email from your Freedompop account and in a day or so you'll have 10 or more connected friends. Each Freedom friend you connect with gives you 50mb of data each month up to the limit of 500mb.
- If you purchase more than 1 SIM card, create a new account, with a different email address, before ordering the 2nd, 3rd, next card. 1 SIM card per account. That way you won't have to share your Freedom Friends 500mb bonus minutes between SIM cards.
- To avoid any top-up charges, set your phone for 100mb less data than your plan. So for instance if you have 700mb data for the month, set your cell phone for a limit of 600mb data and don't allow yourself to go over. Freedompop does a "top-up" charge if you go below that 100mb threshold to protect themselves since there's a lag in accounting for actual data used .
- Get one of the AT&T LTE SIM cards as you'll get 4G speed, and have a US-based IP address. The Global SIM cards will only give you HSPA speed, not 4G, and those cards are registered to Freedompop in the UK so your service is slow.
- Use Google Voice with your Freedompop service and use the GV Hangouts app to make & receive calls. FP uses VOIP, and you do not have to use their app for calls or texts.
It's the only freemium service I've tried. All the tips came from others.
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