Re:T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fu...
by bduerst on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:54PM
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Does international work? (Considering it's on top of T Mobile)
Re:T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fu...
by yebyen on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:24PM
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Yes, international data is supposed to be a flat charge (same as domestic, $10/GB) and international calling happens at what I would consider to be very reasonable rates, both to numbers in and from towers of foreign countries. Also, I believe there is unlimited international texting around the globe.
(I migrated from Verizon to Project Fi, and live close to Canada, so, consider that I am used to turning my phone off when out of the country or near the border, because of Verizon's very unreasonable rates for international calling and text.)
I don't think you can order a Project Fi account as a non-domestic resident, though.
Re:T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fu...
by starnixgod on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:30PM
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Yes, and at the same cost per gig as domestic data.
See Fi's rate card here: https://fi.google.com/about/rates/
I don't think there is any "partnership", the "Wifi Assistant" feature just joins open wifi networks. It does do two neat things: first, it establishes a VPN tunnel through a Google controlled endpoint. Second, they seem to have a database tracking the quality of wifi networks. It won't join networks that are known to be slow, and if a network gets too slow it will automatically disconnect.
In practice though, almost every open wifi network is slow. Much slower than LTE, and certainly not something you could reasonably make a voice call over.
Overall I'm relatively happy with Fi. The service is a little better than T-Mobile (still not as good as AT&T) and the management interface is dead simple. Its what a software startup would build if they went into the cellular carrier business. And for my level of usage (3-4GB/month) the price is similar to T-Mobile.
But don't expect it to save you bandwidth.