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Cell phone gurus, experts, and internet know-it-alls....a question...


So...my 12 year old son's budding athletic career has necessitated us getting him a phone to keep in contact during his travels. So to that end, we picked up a burner at Kroger that works with the "Simple Mobile powered by T-Mobile" system. We got a pretty decent little 4G android phone on sale for $13.99 with air time purchase. The phone seems to work just fine...nice really. Airtime is less than $24 bucks a month, and that includes unlimited calls/texts and 1 gig of data.

This gets me to thinking. The missus and I currently have Verizon. We're shelling out about $124/month for our two lines. We have 2 Gigs between us which we never even get close to using.

SO my question...why wouldn't we ditch Verizon (we're way past any contractual obligation), and both use this same Simple Mobile we have for the boys phone. We'd save $900 a year.

Assuming his phone has good signal in the places we normally travel, why wouldn't we switch. What am I missing?

Posted: 11/19/2017 at 3:44PM


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  Cell phone gurus, experts, and internet know-it-alls....a question... -- JoesterVT 11/19/2017 3:44PM
  Have you looked at TracFone? Costs me about $100/year for a -- AZHokie59 11/20/2017 12:34PM
  Thanks for the info all... -- JoesterVT 11/20/2017 11:50AM
  Assuming . . . -- YardBird 11/20/2017 11:37AM
  Not overly concerned about the cost of the phone... -- JoesterVT 11/20/2017 11:48AM
  I’d ask around, friends/family b/c those phone -- YardBird 11/20/2017 1:08PM
  Cricket. ** -- 81_Hokie 11/20/2017 07:59AM
  I just switched to projectFI and have zero regrets -- Manbearpig 11/20/2017 12:29AM
  Sprint + T-Mobile + US Cellular + Their Roaming Agreements -- jmanatVT 11/20/2017 11:33AM
  My data usage hasn't changed -- Manbearpig 11/20/2017 12:54PM
  Project FI here too. SWVA -- Hokerer 11/20/2017 08:28AM
  Tmobile footprint is NOT anywhere near as whole as Tmo. -- vt_mughal 11/20/2017 12:03AM
  Your assumption is likely wrong...the signal won't be the same -- Vienna_Hokie 11/19/2017 9:14PM
  You need to do some research, even if you stay with same carrier. There are -- Hokie`79 11/19/2017 5:52PM
  Some points to consider -- public knowledge 11/19/2017 5:05PM
  Go to Walmart and buy a Straight Talk sim card. $34/line for unlimited data -- USN_Hokie 11/19/2017 5:03PM
  I pay $35 a month for 4gigs data and unlimited talk/text on cricket ** -- MEHOKIE 11/19/2017 4:26PM
  Whoops, now 5 gigs/ month ** -- MEHOKIE 11/19/2017 8:52PM
  That plan is $40 with Simple Mobile, but the $25 plan would be 'nuf for us ** -- JoesterVT 11/19/2017 4:27PM
  No reason not to switch. Also check out Project Fi and Cricket ** -- hokeyhokie 11/19/2017 3:47PM

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