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Re:T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile by dheera on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @05:57PM (#40230029)
I use Google Fi + Visible in one phone and switch between the two as needed.

Fi: free international roaming in most countries, good tether speeds in urban areas in the US, 4 additional data SIMs at no cost for robots and other hardware projects that just use data from your main plan

Visible: better rural US coverage and fills in a lot of Fi's coverage gaps

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Re:T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile by DreaminDani on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @06:12PM (#40230213)
How do you do this? Is there a button somewhere in android to switch networks?
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Re:T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile by c0wb0yc0d3r on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:34PM (#40230928)
Some phones have multiple SIM slots.

I've never used eSIMs but seeing as they're just bytes, I would imagine you could switch them much like wifi networks.

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Re:T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile by dheera on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:56PM (#40231130)
One eSIM for Google Fi + one physical SIM for Visible.

You can switch which network is used for mobile data in the settings. (As much as I wish it had an option to failover to the other rapidly ...)

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