So I decided to make the leap from T-Mobile to Mint Mobile because of the promo they were running recently! $15/month of unlimited data/text for 3 months for new customers. I figured I wouldn't notice a difference in performance since they use T-Mobile's towers. Was paying $100/month for 2 lines of unlimited. No brainer to switch, IMO, since I'll be saving about $50/month.

I finally activated today and was looking at renewal costs. I was also sold on this disclaimer on their website under their Plan & Services FAQs (https://www.mintmobile.com/faq/):

"Mint Tip: You can lock in our introductory 3-month pricing by renewing for 12 months."

But when I look at my account it shows I would be renewing at $40/month for 3 months of unlimited. When I look at the 12 month option, it shows $30/month for the full year.

I decided to call them, and unfortunately got a hold of someone where English was obviously not their first language. They proceeding to tell me that I could only renew at the current pricing at the end of my 3 months.

What gives? Is this a bait and switch? Anyone had any luck renewing at their introductory pricing?

Are you new to cell phone plans? Of course it's a bait and switch.

Everyone I know on Mint, including myself, just pays annually bc its so cheap. I do the 4gb data for $15/mo. Annually its like $190 after tax.

Look into visible. I'm on there for $25 unlimited everything. If you get someone to use your code you get 1 month for $5. It's Verizon service

Dude I just got a year of service for 2 phones and 10 gb a month per phone for like $520. I have no idea what there is to complain about. Thats like 2 months of Verizon bills, and I'm connected to wifi so much that it is pointless to have anything other than 10gb. Wofe and I were both using like 4 gb per month. Freaking deal is what it is.

How's the service? Is it equal to Verizon? I'm on Verizon now and have looked at Visible, but not sure how the coverage is. I'm in Houston, FWIW.

I live in Houston area and in 6 months I hqve had maybe one or two call issues but I hqve no way to tell if thats because of mint. I believe they are on att towers. It is absolutely worth saving a couple grand a year though. No doubt about it.

Fear InoculAg said:

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Are you new to cell phone plans? Of course it's a bait and switch.

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I get it.. New customers always get a better deal than existing. With T-mobile I was grandfathered in with an older plan. No surprises there and rates never increased.

And, yes, I know it's a great deal regardless. But it's the principle of things that's pissing me off. Says plain as day on their site that you can lock in the promo price.

With the way inflation is taking a toll, any bit of savings helps!

Jackal99 said:

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How's the service? Is it equal to Verizon? I'm on Verizon now and have looked at Visible, but not sure how the coverage is. I'm in Houston, FWIW.

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I'd stay far away from Visible if you use data at all. It was great 2 years ago. Then Verizon, who owns Visible, changed the prioritization and data speeds dropped considerably. In most areas, data was impossible to use. Even my relatively uncongested rural tower was seeing high pings and <2mbps speeds

You can get a mainline Verizon plan for $35. That extra $10 is money well spent over Visible

https://www.circledin.com/all-circles

Sea Speed said:

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Dude I just got a year of service for 2 phones and 10 gb a month per phone for like $520. I have no idea what there is to complain about. Thats like 2 months of Verizon bills, and I'm connected to wifi so much that it is pointless to have anything other than 10gb. Wofe and I were both using like 4 gb per month. Freaking deal is what it is.

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This is the exact situation I'm looking at. 2 lines, 10 gig plans. So $120 for 3 months. Then, if I'm understanding the fine print correctly, I can keep that rate if I renew for 12 months at the end of that three months (~$500 total)? Otherwise, it looks like it's $105/month per line (if I'm reading this right) for the 10 gig plan.

Sea Speed said:

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Dude I just got a year of service for 2 phones and 10 gb a month per phone for like $520. I have no idea what there is to complain about. Thats like 2 months of Verizon bills, and I'm connected to wifi so much that it is pointless to have anything other than 10gb. Wofe and I were both using like 4 gb per month. Freaking deal is what it is.

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We've discussed on here before and I believe you, but I don't understand pricing around mobile. Are we all just too ignorant and lazy to switch from the big boys? If we all switched to the plans like yours would the mobile companies go under because the pricing seems too good to be true.

You are paying less than half of what I am for same plan. We have a 10gb plan on ATT which I don't think they even offer anymore. They force you to Unlimited at this point as far as I can tell unless you just ask for something less that isn't advertised.

txyaloo said:

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Jackal99 said:

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How's the service? Is it equal to Verizon? I'm on Verizon now and have looked at Visible, but not sure how the coverage is. I'm in Houston, FWIW.

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I'd stay far away from Visible if you use data at all. It was great 2 years ago. Then Verizon, who owns Visible, changed the prioritization and data speeds dropped considerably. In most areas, data was impossible to use. Even my relatively uncongested rural tower was seeing high pings and <2mbps speeds

You can get a mainline Verizon plan for $35. That extra $10 is money well spent over Visible

https://www.circledin.com/all-circles

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I personally haven't experienced that. We left from Verizon to Visible and honestly haven't experienced any difference in service. I went from paying around $73 for a line to $25 all in.

Sea Speed said:

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I live in Houston area and in 6 months I hqve had maybe one or two call issues but I hqve no way to tell if thats because of mint. I believe they are on att towers. It is absolutely worth saving a couple grand a year though. No doubt about it.

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I mean I'm not debating that it's not significantly cheaper. But what the heck were you paying with verizon? I have two unlimited lines on AT&T, no promo or anything just standard plan and we pay $130/month. So it'd be more like saving $1,000 a year vs. a couple grand and more like 4/5 months of service not 2....

Edit: not saying this is a bargain, I know we're overpaying. My wife wants the new iPhone whenever it's released so we'll probably switch to T-Mobile or Xfinity then to bundle the home internet. Just curious if your comments are hyperbole or if you were really paying Verizon $200+ a month for two lines.

Maximus_Meridius said:

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Sea Speed said:

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Dude I just got a year of service for 2 phones and 10 gb a month per phone for like $520. I have no idea what there is to complain about. Thats like 2 months of Verizon bills, and I'm connected to wifi so much that it is pointless to have anything other than 10gb. Wofe and I were both using like 4 gb per month. Freaking deal is what it is.

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This is the exact situation I'm looking at. 2 lines, 10 gig plans. So $120 for 3 months. Then, if I'm understanding the fine print correctly, I can keep that rate if I renew for 12 months at the end of that three months (~$500 total)? Otherwise, it looks like it's $105/month per line (if I'm reading this right) for the 10 gig plan.

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I had their intro 6 month offer, one line 15 gb and another unlimited. I just renewed both lines 10gb plan for $480 +taxes and fees which came out to I think $520 total. I cant recall. So I assume you would have the same option as I did.

Yes we have talked about it before ha and I am glad you came to this thread because I was going to hit you up elsewhere to switch because I legit can not think of a reason not to. So cheap and no difference I have noticed.

Yes my plan was expensive for whatever reason. Iirc our bill was right at $200, so there was a LITTLE hyperbole, but not much. Savings of around $1900/year. One I believe is that I spent a lot of time overseas so I had some international crap on the plan and 2 was that they kept dicking us around when we got new phones saying we needed to do this or thst. So I am using a 3+ year old phone and we bought my wife's phone directly from Samsung with a trade in for a dirt cheap price. It was one model old but who cares. It still has all the bells and whistles, and thats the route we will go in the future.

I switched from Verizon to Visible. When it was clear my data just wasn't working well when I needed it. I switched to Mint and I've never had a problem.

ForeverAg said:

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Look into visible. I'm on there for $25 unlimited everything. If you get someone to use your code you get 1 month for $5. It's Verizon service

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Is the service as good as Verizon?

Edit: Just saw the bad reviews above

HossAg said:

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ForeverAg said:

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Look into visible. I'm on there for $25 unlimited everything. If you get someone to use your code you get 1 month for $5. It's Verizon service

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Is the service as good as Verizon?

Edit: Just saw the bad reviews above

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Take a look at the Visible reddit too. Service is really dependent on the local area and how hammered they are.

Verizon prioritizes data a few ways:

1) post paid grandfathered unlimited and "new" unlimited that hasn't hit their high speed data cap
2) post paid who has hit their cap
3) pre-paid who hasn't hit cap
4) pre-paid who has hit cap
5) Visible

Visible customers are basically fifth in line for data

Makes sense. I'm assuming it wouldn't be great for me working in the Galleria

Def looking into Mint. Been with Fi for a couple years and happy, but can switch over to mint for 1/3 the cost is an easy call.

I'm taking advantage of tMobile military discount with my son and it's $135/mo for 6 lines unlimited talk/text/data. Once he's outs it will go to like $200/mo. (I think they'll raise the rates but then he's a vet so maybe not).

After 15 years with Verizon, our rates just went up again. For lowest-priced plan for 2 lines, new rate is $90.30 a month. After looking at several vendors including Mint, we found similar Consumer Cellular plan at $45/mo. We're open to all feedback and suggestions on what to choose. We live in CS, rarely get close to 3 G of data.

Fi has an unlimited plan for $20/mo. Not bad and works well for me.

agracer said:

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I'm taking advantage of tMobile military discount with my son and it's $135/mo for 6 lines unlimited talk/text/data. Once he's outs it will go to like $200/mo. (I think they'll raise the rates but then he's a vet so maybe not).

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Military veterans still get the military discount but they have to be the Billing Responsible Party (account has to be under his name). This means you would need to create a new account under his name and credit and do a change of responsibility where you transfer all your numbers to the new account.

It blows my mind that people are still paying hundreds a month when Mint is available.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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It blows my mind that people are still paying hundreds a month when Mint is available.

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Seriously. I was a little sketched out about switching too and idk why. Its like people have Stockholm syndrome with the legacy carriers. Such a good call to switch.

OP should be tweeting Ryan Reynolds

txyaloo said:

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HossAg said:

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ForeverAg said:

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Look into visible. I'm on there for $25 unlimited everything. If you get someone to use your code you get 1 month for $5. It's Verizon service

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Is the service as good as Verizon?

Edit: Just saw the bad reviews above

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Take a look at the Visible reddit too. Service is really dependent on the local area and how hammered they are.

Verizon prioritizes data a few ways:

1) post paid grandfathered unlimited and "new" unlimited that hasn't hit their high speed data cap
2) post paid who has hit their cap
3) pre-paid who hasn't hit cap
4) pre-paid who has hit cap
5) Visible

Visible customers are basically fifth in line for data

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We tried Visible and immediately ran into an issue at a convention. Data would not load at all.

Visible lasted 3 months and then we went back to AT&T. AT&T sucks at our house in Welborn, but at least it works in other places. Yeah Wifi calling and imessages. Sucks when we have to send pics via sms.

Bobcat-Ag said:

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Fi has an unlimited plan for $20/mo. Not bad and works well for me.

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yup. was about to switch my whole family off of Fi until they dropped the price recently. $90 total per month for 4 unlimited lines.

If you have an existing phone, how easy is it to switch to Mint? Keep the same number?

Yes it is very easy. You get a code from your current provider and give it to mint.

Of you sign up, use my code and I think we both get a credit of some sort.

http://fbuy.me/tWs7t

had 5 lines for 10gb for 100 bucks on Cricket for a few years now. They just jacked it up to 130. Like how you can adjust different lines for different data. Could get back my 100 bucks or even cheaper now as I am fulltime work from home leaching off of wifi and can maybe try the 4gb. Thanks for the info on this thread.

racerfink said:

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If you have an existing phone, how easy is it to switch to Mint? Keep the same number?

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I switched on Monday. It took about 10 mins, download the app, buy the 3mo teaser package, check you email for step by step intrusction, download eSIM if compatible, boom done.

I have had Mint for a few years and I like it. It uses T-mobile towers.

Prior to Mint, I spent years paying for unlimited data on Sprint. I finally looked at what I used and it was typically 1-2 GB per month. I have wi-fi at home. There is wi-fi at work. There is wi-fi at most restaurants. I actually used very little data. If you don't really use that much data, you can save a lot of money with a lower data plan. Even Sprint gave me a good deal when I called and threatened to leave for a low GB plan. I do a year on Mint for $15 a month with 4GB per month. I paid $201.49 with fees and taxes for a year of service.

Jim
http://fbuy.me/tBCrB