Well, looks like things are going to work with Tello. Not sure I posted here about this, but about ten days ago I decided to try out Tello, a prepaid cellphone service, using my deceased husband's number, that way I can switch my work phone back to my old SIM and service if it didn't work as I can't afford to be without service because of my job.
So, according to Verizon I use about 12G of data on a busy month, so I was going to get a Tello 15G plan, but it turned out the unlimited was only about 2$ more, so I went that route. According to Tello, last week, my first week with them, though only a 4 day workweek, I used 2G of data, right inline with expectations. Considering that the unlimited plan comes with 50G of high speed data, this means that Tello will work fine. I was worried that I might run into problems with it not being a prioritized VMO, but aside from a few errors on Tues that might've been software rather than a lack of data, I've seen no problems any where.
So, the first step in cutting down my bills is a success, just a matter of deciding what phone number I want to stick with as I don't think I need two phone numbers. I will say the number I'm using on Tello is easier to remember than the one I currently have on Verizon, but switching to that would require changing my number in a lot of places, and I'm sure to forget and break something. Also saving won't be huge, not compared to what I pay through Verizon, having two lines, 5G home internet and one streaming service sounds like a lot at around 140$, but its really not that much because of discounts, internet for example will run at least 60$, 25$ for the phone and likely another 15$ or so for the streaming separately, and that's with one phone, if I had two, add 25$ to that. Still every bit is good, and I can likely drop the streaming, and maybe just use cellular internet? Have to figure out how much net I use here, not sure how to do that, but an unlimited data only plan might be a cheap solution.
Much to figure out here.
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