There have been a few posts here and there about ting as a phone carrier. I switched from T-mobile to ting because they saved me about 65 bucks a month. Ting uses the sprint network and you only pay for what you use. Since my usage is low I only pay about 25 to 35 bucks a month on ting.
Now I found Ting on steroids.
Google Fi does almost the same thing as Ting. Fi charges $20 a month for unlimited phone and text and then only $10 per gig of data. They also pro rate any data not used or used over your plan at the same rate. So it really comes out to $0.10 per meg of data.
But the best part of Google Fi is that they don't just use sprint towers like Ting does. They seamlessly bounce between Sprint towers, T-Mobile towers and Wi-Fi if you can connect. Just like Ting any usage on Wi-Fi is free.
There are 2 downsides, first you need to use a Google Nexus 6 phone to be on the plan right now. In the future they will expand the phones you can use. Second, its invite only and it takes about a month to get them to invite you in. I just got my invite on friday and I get my phone today.
It was a no brainer for me, I wanted a new phone and this gives me more coverage with more data at the same price as ting.
If you think it may be for you check it out.
https://fi.google.com/
Now I found Ting on steroids.
Google Fi does almost the same thing as Ting. Fi charges $20 a month for unlimited phone and text and then only $10 per gig of data. They also pro rate any data not used or used over your plan at the same rate. So it really comes out to $0.10 per meg of data.
But the best part of Google Fi is that they don't just use sprint towers like Ting does. They seamlessly bounce between Sprint towers, T-Mobile towers and Wi-Fi if you can connect. Just like Ting any usage on Wi-Fi is free.
There are 2 downsides, first you need to use a Google Nexus 6 phone to be on the plan right now. In the future they will expand the phones you can use. Second, its invite only and it takes about a month to get them to invite you in. I just got my invite on friday and I get my phone today.
It was a no brainer for me, I wanted a new phone and this gives me more coverage with more data at the same price as ting.
If you think it may be for you check it out.
https://fi.google.com/