Re:I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
by radicaldreamer on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:11PM
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And no other carrier offers up to 9 additional data only SIMs on the same plan without additional charges.
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This is by far the thing I miss most about Fi, and I'm shocked that no other carrier so far has replicated the feature.
Re:I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
by radicaldreamer on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:34PM
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It’s because people will figure out that they don’t need voice services st all...
That's not a problem if you follow the Fi billing model: a base payment for voice and SMS/MMS service is always required to keep the account active. Data is billed separately.
Re:I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
by radicaldreamer on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:23PM
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The thing is that I’m sure there are plenty of families on Fi who don’t have phone numbers for anyone but the primary account holder and rely on voip.
Re:I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
by StillBored on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:46PM
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Because they charge by the byte, rather that the sim card. I find it hard to believe that is a generally useful feature unless you happen to have a network of IoT devices with 100MB of data usage a month.
Whatever you do, don't give one of those sim cards to my kids, which somehow manage to burn multiple GB a month each with the occasional music/youtube video in the car/whatever when they are away from the home/school/etc wifi.