Re:Project Fi by Google
by xanderstrike on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:38PM
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The "refund" language is confusing for the purposes of advertising, and I wouldn't bother repeating it. It's by-the-gig pricing, full stop. They just charge you for data you use, at a quite competitive price.
I don't think that that's correct. The plan page basically says that it's by-the-100MB pricing. https://fi.google.com/about/plan/
Re:Project Fi by Google
by solaris999 on Thursday April 23, 2015 @05:14AM
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I'm not sure if that's true. Their line about refunding unused data says "you’ll get your unused data credited in dollars and cents" which implies that it may be as fine grained as by the 1MB pricing (if they are actually refunding cents as well)
Re:Project Fi by Google
by pikachu_is_cool on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @04:05PM
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I don't really understand why they presented it that way, by-the-gig (or 100MB) sounds much more appealing than rollover data. Maybe it's some liability or insurance thing? Cause you basically have to fork over a bunch of money for the first month before the refunds roll over.
(never mind, someone else responded to this question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9422621)
- It is unlimited talk (domestic) and unlimited text (domestic and international). International talk costs extra.
What was said in your post was accurate, but the way it was worded could confuse people into believing that it is unlimited international talk.
The pricing is a little more nuanced than you said.
- It is $20 (talk/text) and then $10 per gig of data. However they refund you all unused data at the end of the month. So if you buy 1 gig of data for $10 and only use 0.5 gig, they credit back $5.
Which is an important distinction as that is their USP: cost savings by refunding unused data.