Ooh lord someone pray for me i'm having a day. Dear #USMobile you say you can't authenticate my perfectly good card but don't tell me why. This is almost enough reason for me to kick you to the curb faster than light speed (see what I did there) and go elsewhere.
#USMobile
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Just a heads up some, some carriers instantly flag the #pinephone and #pinephonepro as routers probably due to the EG25-G in them. Had my primary line on #USMobile suspended and required me to reinsert my Sim on a supported device, pixel 6, and tons of back and forth to get it reactivated. It trigger due to being on the unlimited plan so now I'm on their cheapest by the gig plan with only 2GB. Jokes on them I never leave the house/WiFi so I'll never pass 2GB and it'd $44 -> $10
My first cellular phone service cost $45/month + $0.45/minute during peak hours (daytime) or $0.25/minute off peak. (That was on GTE, the only alternative to AT&T.)
Now I pay $96/year (only $8/month!) through reseller #USMobile , can switch easily between the 3 networks, and get better customer service.
This has got to be the best consumer bargain I've seen in ages...
Weekly output: Next Big Things in Tech (x3), Starship, T-Satellite, prepaid home wireless broadband
A months-in-the-work project finally reached the publication stage this week, which felt good–if not as good as invoicing for this project. Another high point of this week: spending a chunk of Saturday afternoon at the No Kings demonstration in D.C. and seeing how strong the protest-sign game remains in my city.
10/14/2025: The 5 next big things in space and telecom for 2025, Fast Company
Once again, my work on Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech list (NBTT for short) started with judging entries in the converging industries of space and telecom.
10/14/2025: The 4 next big things in robotics and automation for 2025, Fast Company
This is another category I’ve judged before, but most of the companies I considered this year were new to my work at Fast Co.
10/14/2025: These 4 innovations help solve critical issues for North America, Fast Company
This was a new addition to my NBTT work, and deciding what made companies worthy of this honor in this geographically-defined category got tricky at times.
10/14/2025: Starship’s Version 2 Flies for the Last Time, Splashes Down in One Piece, PCMag
I wrote this recap of Starship’s 11th flight test Monday night and then revised the piece slightly Tuesday morning–hours before SpaceX released video of Starship’s upper stage looking more than a little cooked as it lowered itself into the Indian Ocean.
10/16/2025: Who’s on T-Satellite? T-Mobile Dominates, But Verizon Customers Say No Thanks, PCMag
One surprise of this study from Ookla was how many AT&T subscribers chose to pay $10 a month extra to T-Mobile for Starlink satellite roaming; another was how rarely wireless users now find themselves without a terrestrial signal.
10/17/2025: T-Mobile, Verizon Now Selling 5G Home Internet Service Via Their Prepaid Brands, PCMag
Telecom-industry analyst Jeff Moore e-mailed me about the impending launch of resold Verizon fixed-wireless-access broadband by its Tracfone subsidiary, then T-Mobile’s Mint Mobile subsidiary started reselling its parent firm’s FWA. Moore then gave me some useful insight about the state of prepaid home wireless broadband.
#911inform #AES #EascraBiotech #fixedWireless #Heven #home5G #ImpulseSpace #MintMobile #MobileX #Ookla #OWLIntegrations #PilaEnergy #ProRataAi #ServeRobotics #SpaceXStarship #Starlink #Starship #TMobileStarlink #TSatellite #TracFone #USMobile #Vantor #Varda
Anyone know of a reliable, cheap cell phone carrier in the US? I have an ancient AT&T prepaid plan that doesn't have data, (it used to be Cingular,) and my money is finally running out. So I'm in the market for something new. I'd like unlimited talk and text, (texts are what burned $500 of prepaid minutes out in 16 months,) and some data. I'd prefer less than $10USD/month.
I used US Mobile abroad and enjoyed them. They have a limited plan at $8/month if you pay for a year. Are they good in this country?
Can you recommend any others to look at?
thanks.
@crosspost I think I found one, so nevermind. Here's my own referral code if you're looking for one: 3E77FEEA
https://www.usmobile.com/referrals?referrer=3E77FEEA&name=Kurt&utm_campaign=monster_referral
Anyone have a U.S. Mobile referral code?
I'm switching over from Mint Mobile.
I am paying 50 dollars for two lines. I am no mathematician Verizon but I believe 100 is more than 50.
Stop paying the big three their contract prices it’s a rip off.
What's going on at #USMobile? They've launched something they call #DarkStar, but their page doesn't give any actual info about it. And elsewhere they seem to refer to it as ... Death Star?
That's one hell of a marketing mix up with some potentially unwelcome conversations from Disney's lawyers, I would imagine.
Moved my wife's phone over to US Mobile over the weekend, and wow, that was the most painless porting process I've ever experienced.
End-to-end was maybe 15 minutes and *everything* worked perfectly. Verizon's speed and coverage is pretty good where I live.
I have a signup link that gives us both some credits if you sign up. Just let me know if you want it!
Boycott #Apple!
So we went to an Apple store because my wife insists that she prefers iPhone over any other device. We were ready to buy the newest iPhone 15 Pro for $1000 using her Apple credit card that she used to buy her last phone with because it offered monthly payments with 0%.
Apple has decided to take payout from the big 3 service providers and only offer payment plans if you sign in with one of them.
We are using #USMobile and are out of luck! I guess we are not "Apple worthy"
Switching to #USMobile if this doesn't work, their unlimited plan's high speed data is actually way higher
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