For anyone who has tried switching over, what’s your experience with them been like? Were there any hidden upsides or downsides you weren’t expecting? What about coverage? It’s really hard to ignore them when they keep spamming ads to YouTube, my favorite podcasts, etc.
I’ve been with Mint for years and I absolutely love it. $200/yr (taxes) and I have 5gb/month and great coverage.
Orlando, FL
I switched fairly recently. I was on Ting before, and they appear to be quietly sunsetting that service after Dish Network bought them a few years back. Hoping the same doesn’t happen to Mint. It’s been great so far. Incredible value!
I have been very happy with Mint in the USA but as I note in a reply thread below, it is useless for international travel. Use an ESIM app instead. On my latest trip to Europe it worked for about 5 minutes upon landing and then I got kicked off the network and it never worked again. Simultaneously, my login in the Mint app was invalidated… and I cannot login now via any channel. I use a password manager so it is not user error. I’m back home now but the login issue persists and I have a ticket open for it. I can get only get into my account if I follow this path:
- go to mintmobile.com and hit login
- click send password
- receive one-time verification code by SMS and enter that
- when prompted I enter my one-password from my Authenticator
- when prompted I pick a new password and press enter
Once I do that I drop into my account, authenticated. If I log out again, the new credentials never work.
I have to wonder if I tripped some sort of fraud control in Europe.
I’ve used it for a few years and I like it, I pay once per year and it’s the same T-Mobile service. There’s no roaming though so I always get a local esim when I travel abroad. Kind of iffed T-Mobile just bought them though. They say oh we’re actually keeping prices the same and giving you more data (as mint has traditionally done every other year) but I have a feeling this will be the last data increase we’ll ever see. And also some people complain about deprioritization but as a former T-Mobile customer I can tell you it’s the same places like busy malls or stadiums where direct T-Mobile customers aren’t having a good time either.
Yeah, even on magenta Max the fundamental limit seems to always be network capacity and no amount of priority gets you enough. I’m sure some edge cases it helped but eh. Now that I don’t need unlimited data and rely on having it realized I should switch to at least try it out, took like 30 min because say what you will about TMobile they are fairly pro consumer when it comes to migration tools. I literally did it all through the app seamlessly and they automatically canceled everything an buttoned it up when I had no devices, numbers or outstanding balances. I didn’t have to call anyone or answer a survey or any bullshit, just a small box on the transfer page asking me to reconsider.
Personally they’ve treated me well as a customer apart from the price for a single line being eye watering.
My moment with T-Mobile was when I got a Pixel and needed the new smaller SIM size and they wanted to charge me. I was like okay well if you won’t give me the SIM then I can’t pay you for service, and that was that.
Yeah that sucks, they shipped me a new SIM in the box with my 6 pro. All stupid because they could have easily issued an eSIM (like mint did for me)
I’m on a large T mobile family plan and was able to stack on insider as well as free line bonus. Ends up being around same price as Mint’s unlimited tier, but with much better international roaming and in-flight wifi for half of the domestic us airlines. That’s another option if you’re interested in that.
I use it all over the western half of the USA. I’d say maybe 10-15 percent of locations where I have signal the actual speeds are abysmal. I think due to the mvno data being deprioritized but I can’t say for sure. I still keep them because it’s cheap but it can get annoying
It’s been great for me and my family. But we live in a major metro with good TMobile coverage, ymmv. Definitely a great price for 4 lines, I can control all the plans and pre-paid billing for each line from the app, and the hotspot works great. If the coverage is good in your area, the price can’t be beat.
I switched over a few months ago. It works great! Not having to worry about the bill is very nice.
Has anyone tried using it with Canadian providers?
I’ve tried travelling to Canada with it and failed to have working data. Your mileage may vary, but I was disappointed.
