Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by AlotOfReading on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:49PM
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I'll be sad when Google Fi is eventually killed. It's honestly amazing to have a service that's purely transactional. No notifications, no upsells, no "oops we had a data breach" (except the time it happened upstream), no roaming. Just a monthly payment exchanged for service.
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Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by Legend2440 on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:33PM
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How is this different from what other prepaid carriers like Mint offer?
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by trivialities777 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:17AM
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The big thing keeping me from switching from Google Fi is how easy international roaming is. For every country I've been to, I've just had it automatically work within ten minutes of landing, at my regular price, without buying any addons
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by xingped on Saturday March 14, 2026 @02:11AM
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Except if you happen to travel for more than 45 days, in which case Google Fi will promptly tell you to get fucked and cut off your service without warning, advanced notice, or spelling out anywhere when you sign up. Not my idea of a carrier I can trust. I deleted my account and service with them to move to a carrier that I can trust and actually respects me as a customer.
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by noman-land on Saturday March 14, 2026 @07:19AM
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What service do you use now?
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by xingped on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:39PM
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I've switched to US Mobile. I haven't used it on an extended basis internationally yet, but I am about to travel internationally, so will find out soon. That said, the reviews are pretty good by people that use it internationally for an extended period of time.
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by shalmanese on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:31AM
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tbf, that was because a lot of people abused it by being permanently outside of the US and relying exclusively on the roaming for all their data. I know because I was one of those people for 6 years.
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by xingped on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:57PM
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Gee, thanks.
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by herewulf on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:05PM
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We've exceeded that by months on multiple occasions and fully expected them to cut us off after reading similar dire warnings but they never have.
That said, we keep data usage rather low because we're on the metered plan.
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by xingped on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:58PM
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I don't know what the difference is, but the first time I exceeded that they chopped me off immediately.
Re:Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merg...
by leohart on Saturday March 14, 2026 @01:09AM
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I got bad speed even with perfect signal in malls and any place that is more crowded than a Costco. Google Fi doesn't have that problem. I blame it on T-mobile but I would rather Google Fi survives.