My Ting experience

OuterGodHermit · December 23, 2021

I am now living in the US so I decided for now to try and use Ting for a while and this was my experience:

The site did not take any of the 2 US credit cards a couple of friends lend me so my experience stopped there. One was Visa by Bank of America and the other was by Discovery. The support was good but they said they would probably will have to enter manually the card for it to work, so that's a no for me.

They didn't take my credit card for another country either. But Google Fi did.

So... Two cards failing in a row....

Bombastinator · December 23, 2021

33 minutes ago, aleamaro791 said:

I am now living in the US so I decided for now to try and use Ting for a while and this was my experience:

The site did not take any of the 2 US credit cards a couple of friends lend me so my experience stopped there. One was Visa by Bank of America and the other was by Discovery. The support was good but they said they would probably will have to enter manually the card for it to work, so that's a no for me.

They didn't take my credit card for another country either. But Google Fi did.

So... Two cards failing in a row....

I did ting for a while back when it was all effectively metered line. Metered line was a very old ma bell concept which winds up rewarding you if you use the phone very rarely but none the less need for one to exist. If you do though it can get a lot more expensive very quickly. One can potentially save a bunch of money that way but one has to be quite careful. My downfall was map apps. They apparently use a fair amount of data. I was set up for some hardcore savings, but I got in a situation where I just had to use maps and my savings disappeared in just a few days. What I found most useful in the end was mint. They had an unlimited data plan which solved my problem. Had to pay for a year up front though which was not a small amount of money.

OuterGodHermit · December 23, 2021

1 hour ago, Bombastinator said:

I did ting for a while back when it was all effectively metered line. Metered line was a very old ma bell concept which winds up rewarding you if you use the phone very rarely but none the less need for one to exist. If you do though it can get a lot more expensive very quickly. One can potentially save a bunch of money that way but one has to be quite careful. My downfall was map apps. They apparently use a fair amount of data. I was set up for some hardcore savings, but I got in a situation where I just had to use maps and my savings disappeared in just a few days. What I found most useful in the end was mint. They had an unlimited data plan which solved my problem. Had to pay for a year up front though which was not a small amount of money.

I considered Mint but the upfront cost was to high. Also try and download maps if you use Google, I suppose it could save you data. Is incredibly expensive data here. My experience in Mexico and Spain taught me data was really cheap, and here is crazy expensive. What the hell

AndreiArgeanu · December 27, 2021

On 12/23/2021 at 9:43 PM, aleamaro791 said:

My experience in Mexico and Spain taught me data was really cheap, and here is crazy expensive. What the hell

Had a similar experience having moved from an eastern European country to the UK. At least now I'm with Voxi and I'm paying 10£ for 15gb of data and I don't think there's anything better.

In the US mint mobile does seem to be the best choice, 30$ for unlimited data, though it's only 35GB at 5G speeds and after that only at 4G speeds. Though you do have to pay for a full 12 months to get the prices they advertise. And the tax is 14$ but it's a one time thing from the looks of it.

Still getting a SIM in the US seems like such a hassle, you need to check compatibility of your phone with the carrier some companies even ask for the IMEI of the phone and plans where you pay month by month giving you the flexibility to change carriers easily seem to be discouraged by charging more. And of course the costs, especially when compared to the UK. Though I guess you could somewhat make the argument that getting coverage in the whole US costs more and what not.