US Mobile's plans have already changed since this review came out. Even better value now. Unlimited Starter is even better now with 30GB of priority full speed data and 5GB of hotspot data for $25 a month.
@@cockdieselsworldyou can pay the whole year in advance for a substantial discount. Thinking about getting the unlimited premium for $37.50 a month by paying for the year.
Hey Stetson!! Because of you I switched to Mint Mobile in March 2018 & never looked back!!!! BEST decision I ever made!! I purchased their yearly plan in Dec.2019 so when the pandemic hit I was basically CRUISING with no cell phone bill payments FOR A YEAR!!! Since then I only get the yearly plan. Thank you so much for creating this channel. I’ve been looking at your videos since the very start!!
@raymondrodriguez5068…Well actually my husband paid it, however that’s besides the point. The yearly bill at that time was $237!! & what I sort of meant was no ridiculous monthly payments to Sprint or Verizon which I’ve had prior. My monthly Sprint bill was always over $100 so $237 per year was beyond amazing. If anything I had no phone payments for the year since my husband paid it, & $237 per year for PERFECT service is unheard of!!!
I switched from my 15gb plan to the unlimited started plan and save like $3.00 more a month and get 5gbs more before it’s throttled. I am happy! 5G UWB and taxes and fees included. I am very happy with my service with US Mobile. They emailed me about the plan changes. I changed to them because of you a year ago! I am happy with my priority data!
I moved from Visible to US Mobile before the Plus plan was created. Visible was nice while it worked. It was a nightmare when you needed customer support. US Mobile is worth it for that alone. Unless things have DRASTICALLY changed, of course.
I switched from Verizon to Visible a couple months ago and haven’t had any issues. I’ve never needed to use costumer support, though I’ve heard it has improved.
I’m in the same boat here. Visible is great until you need support. If your eSIM fails to activate when switching phones, your whole account might get screwed. Over a week with support and them reassigning 5+ eSIMs and no luck getting service restored. Just gave up and had to port out.
Visible is unlimited with no speed caps. Us mobile after priority data is used up you want to get one megabyte per second versus 200 megabytes per second from visible... And also Verizon updated the visible servers so you're actually on the Verizon network not like US Mobile...
Visible is no different from Straighttalk from my research (looking it leave Straighttalk). I thought about going with visible, but they are QCI8 and thus not priority. "Premium" is not the same as priority. US Mobile is priority, QCI9 for so much data, then drops down.
I’ve been pretty happy with US Mobile. Even with their cheapest unlimited plan, I think once your rate is throttled, you’re still getting priority data. For a 1 Mbps connection, things like Twitter and browsing are still really fast (like, the same latency as unthrottled). Video streaming obviously takes a hit though. Their support team seems to have a lot more in their toolkit than most reps from Straight talk/Visible I’ve had to deal with.
I'm a US mobile customer since their beginning and in my bill I've never been charged taxes or fees, I pay 25 bucks even per line and that's it, minus my discount for perks. I don't know if they changed at some point because they change their plans from time to time, but as a legacy customer, I can tell that the value is there, but not the practicality. Say I want to change my payment card, I can't just swap in the app because it will try to force into the new plans, so I need to chat with customer service every single time and that's always time consuming. So far US mobile has been one of the best value carriers in the US, the big 3 are really out of reality 😎👍
@@Trust_but_Verify if you want to update your payment method on your own it will lead you to change plans, if you're a legacy plan holder you're still required to chat with customer support to update your payment card. To add cards and remove cards from your wallet that is doable without messing with your current plan, it's is just when you want to swap cards that is linked to a legacy plan that you need to chat with customer service so they can do it on their end, because apparently they don't have a way not to offer the legacy plan to new customers while not doing the opposite to older legacy customers.
@@cupidok2768 us mobile has priority data, I've never felt like my speed was lowered to prioritize first party T-mobile or Verizon users. At least not that I could prove otherwise.
Thanks! I've been with US Mobile for several months now and as long as they're in a reasonable ballpark with other MVNOs, I'll be with them for the foreseeable future. The customer service has been far better than other MVNOs I've tried. They have employees on their sub-reddit answer questions nearly 24 hrs. (it may be 24 hrs. but I haven't verified that.) The people responding are very nice as well.
Just moved my entire family to US Mobile pooled plan. (5 lines on 12GB + additional 2gb for total of $61) Previously had 3X 5GB Mint Mobile plans + 2X 1GB Tello Mobile plans, with taxes and fees was paying just about $75 monthly. Was juggling around different apps and accounts, now all on same accounts+app, single monthly payment, all while saving $15+ a month for basically same service.
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Stetson, what if these MVNOs had an option for a truly unlimited plan with no streaming cap but a total speed limit of either 5, 10, 20, or 35 Mbps. They could also give the option of either deprioritized or premium data. What do you think of this?
I am using the new Shared Data plan with my wife. Now GSM can also have Shared Data plan. So I went with GSM and she went with Warp 5G. Whenever someone’s don’t get a coverage while the others still have (which happens a lot), we will share data through the hotspot😂
I am an international student and had signed up for us mobile's 5 Gb for ~$18 with the student discount. Over the summer when I was on my home country, I switched to the 500 mb plan to save money. Now that I came back to the US I saw the changes and like that I get an extra gig for the same amount just without the student discount
US Mobile is a great service and they have excellent customer service. I dumped my post-paid service 3 years ago and US Mobile works great. You can have others on your plan. Say you have kids and parents….you can add them to your plan and each pays for their lines. This keeps families together and costs low.
I moved from the old 25gb plan which was $34 with taxes and hotspot add on to the 50gb plan for $40 taxes and fees included. With the priority data the plan give a post paid like experience.
What people thought was gonna happen was that US Mobile was going to have the unlimited plans at a flat $35 and $45 but it doesn't work that way. US Mobile messed up, they should've gave us 10GB hotspot on the starter unlimited plan and gave us 25GB hotspot on the unlimited essentials since they give us 100GB and 50GB on the hotspot for the unlimited premium plan.
We had the pooled data plan currently for 3 lines ($9/line plus $2/gb and we use about 6gb in total per month, there is a $2 ish fee on top, making our old bill around $41 per month). We plan to switch to the new 6gb shared plan for $18+8x2=$34 to save some. I like the new change!
So I had five lined pooled on the old plan for $50/mo with 1gb of data, switched to the new plan and am now getting 6gb with the same five lines for $50/mo, but their website calculator said it should only be like $46 (can’t remember exactly). Maybe it’ll go down next month. Still, an extra 5gb of data for when the old family members somehow blow through a gb randomly isn’t bad for the same price.
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Just switched my mom from ATT to the 6gb US Mobile Warp (Verizon) and are saving $75 a month! ATT was a ripoff and a pain to deal with! US Mobile phone support was superior to ATT and I don’t notice a difference between her US Mobile and my Verizon Unlimited as far as speed/coverage which is amazing. She actually gets much faster speeds on US Mobile than ATT. Never going back to ATT! Thanks for the thorough walkthrough!
Why in the US mobile data so expensive? I live in Europe and I pay 12€ (~13$) for 160 GB and unlimited call, 500 messages (500 messages are nothing because we use emails and WhatsApp and/or Telegram) and 5G (with is not really 5G but oh well) And add +5€ and you have unlimited mobile data, call and message, also 5G with unlimited bandwidth. Can someone tell me why it's so expensive in the US? Lack of competition perhaps?
Bingo you nailed it, lack of proper competition and lack of consumer focused regulations like many EU countries have. Here in the US our politicians are thoroughly regulatory-captured by these big companies and lobbyists. End-stage capitalism abounds here among other stupidity, as you see on your news regularly. I at least try to support good MVNOs like US Mobile and MobileX, to give these big carriers at least less business... they are hogs feeding on the majority of customers ignorance regarding options and their actual data needs.
How can you compare Europe to the United States when Europe has 50 different countries with 50 different leaders. The United States is one country with one leader or president Because Europe has so many countries they have a lot more cell companies .so competition is the main reason it's cheaper
These new US Mobile plans sound great sure my family and I live in New Zealand but we visit the USA on vacation often and my whole family now have phones that are compatible with US Mobile eSIM so this will be great for us when we visit the USA in the future
I had an odd problem when I tried Visible. They told me I didn't have an esim compatible phone (my pixel 6a IS compatible) so they would send me a physical sim in a few days. A week later, no sim. So I went to USMobile and had an esim up and running in less than five minutes on that exact same phone. BTW, that sim from visible arrived three WEEKS later. Needless to say I never activated it.
I had a bad activation issue when porting my number to Visible wireless. It was a ghetto experience and I couldn’t get any help for a while via chat. I almost lost my decade old number. So I quickly moved to US Mobile via eSim and it was connected and my number ported over within the hour. Had one issue with Wi-Fi calling but their tech team fixed it in a few days and very helpful. Love the premium data! I notes the difference from Verizon wireless prepaid to US Mobile immediately.
Your savings calculations are off. Major carriers postpaid plans all charge a $35 activation fee. For 4 lines that's already $140 that you aren't "saving"
Still does not beat Visible for "unlimited" since the data is slowed down so bad when you are out, rather have the 50gbs premium and still have fast depri data afterwards. If Visible ever adds international outside the us it will be even better.
I remember reading that you can mix and match shared data. So for the extra cost of a line, one phone could "switch" between networks. It's not like Google Fi, but if you have GSM with physical SIM and esim on Warp, you can use both lines on the same phone.
@@StetsonDoggettif they’re both the same, why did you put Priority Data and Premium data on separate slides? I went on Google and started to figure out the difference and came across the QCI numbers. I had US Mobile 15gb plan plan that is 25.00 plus fees and taxes prior with priority data. Now I moved to the unlimited started plan with 5 gbs more and no taxes and fees anymore.
Does international calling really matter anymore when you have apps like WhatsApp to call around the world for free? Assuming the other person has it too obviously.
The U.S. mobile seems awesome! I had it a few years ago when I didn't get priority data, oh boy it was rough in high density areas. I couldn't even load music during those times. It was frustrating. Glad to see some improvement.
This yearly lock-in game is just a subdued form of contract. They want you to have skin in the game so you can't easily switch if their coverage or customer service is bad or your needs change. Make sure you consider if this discount is worth it to you.
Im on the family plan discount with 4 lines. For $23.30 a month that provides unlimited call/text and 30GB of data pretty good deal. Def not going to change plans.
Is their service good? Im trying to decide between USM, Mint, Boost, or Metro by Tmobile. I need the most bang for my buck. And it has to be a non verizon mvno. What would you recommend?
Thank you for doing this video Stetson. My wife and I switched over to a pooled plan (sharing 30gb). I elected for us to do so to ensure we have hotspot data. We used to be on separate plans of 15gb each and then paid for hotspot on each line. That's been eliminated (adding hotspot) of course. Like it so far. If 30gb is too much we may take a shot at sharing 12gb. We plan on getting the iPhone 15 in October so who knows what's next but we remain loyal US Mobile customers.
Looks like they offer 5GB hotspot data and 30GB Premium data now (three weeks after this video released) on the Unlimited Starter plan for $25/mo. Looks pretty good for me. Just wondering if the “Priority Data” is really priority data. Seems odd that they would offer true prioritized data for this price!
WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW AND WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE NEW PLANS. All new plans are actually unlimited and the user pays for all of the data used. For example if one buys the $25 for 25GB high speed then unlimited 1mbps, you PAY for that additional unlimited 1mbps. I used over 4GB of my monthly allocated data and those 4GB are getting substracted for the next month! Stetson, can you comment on this? essentially in their new plans, one pre-pays for a set amount of data and post-paid for anything above. And what one can use above the pre-paid amount is unlimited, so your bill could potentially run in the $$ thousands!!!
I have used Us Mobile for about a year. Problem I have with them is, sometimes people would call my phone and they get a message that says my phone is disconnected. Same thing with my wife phone. Works when it wants to but can be funky
Did you try contacting customer service about it cuz that sounds like something that shouldn't be happening? If you did contact them, what did they say ?
My only concern with US Mobile is that the call center is based in Islamabad. Everyone I've spoken to was polite, but Pakistan, being a safe haven for ISIS and the Taliban is not a country that i want all of my private data and credit card information floating around.
It is not safe haven for these groups. More than 250 million people live in the country with almost no fear of going outside. There may be some areas on the Afghan border which were no go areas until 2016 but not anymore.
@@rockvilleraventhats exactly what I just did was using their $40 new plan with 50 gigs and noticed myself using only about 30 gigs of data a month and even if I go over 30 gigs the 1 megabit per second speeds are enough to watch videos and do everything I need my data to do for me so in my opinion whether you want T-Mobile or Verizon coverage and if you want it at an amazing price this is the way to go and I am willing to argue with people about it cause I’ve used visible I’ve also used mint mobile and straight talk and boost mobile and us cellular and at one point in time I lived in a rural area and had to use cspire wireless so long story short I have used every carrier because cspire only had towers in the rural areas and whenever I left those areas for work I would be roaming on Sprint towers so I have literally used every single phone plan and company out there and so far US Mobile is going to be my longterm pick at this point
So is the hotspot data on top of your regular data? Or is it part of it? For example, for the Unlimited Essentials, if you use the 5gb hotspot, do you still have 50gb left of data?
Hi! Love your channel . Maybe you can help me decide . I’m coming from sprint , and I’m paying 110 a month for one line , because I had unlimited everything and a ton of perks . Now that T-Mobile took them over , they’re eliminating all my perks , so I’m leaving . I’m a high data user , 50gb a month listing to a lot of music and lots of internet and RUclips . Visible plus seems to cost 50, the top us mobile plan is 50, but mint is 15 if I pay in advance ? Am I missing something ?
Visible is ghetto. Like the Spirit Airlines of the Prepaid Cellphone world. Worse then Cricket and probably Boost. US Mobile (on their Verizon side) is excellent! I feel like I’m on Verizon and pay only $25.00 a month now!😂
I don't get it. On the shared side, as a single line, with all the bells and whistles and taxes, the 15GB plan was $1.82/GB, now its 12GB counter is $2.08 and that's better? The 5GB and 25GB plans are better upgraded, but the 2GB and 15GB are not.
The $10 1GB plan can be turned into $12 for 2GB by purchasing a 1GB data add-on for $2. That would be $12 flat for 2GB, with hotspot included and taxes and fees included. That’s better than the previous 2GB plan!
Visible may look good on paper. With the lack of REAL customer support aka calling in to talk to someone I passed their services. I value real customer service and will and have gladly paid more for that one caveat alone. But if you like visible kudos to you! 🤮
Stetson, I have 2 lines (one with Mint and one with US Mobile). I have multiple devices/ a Fold 3, Flip 3, Iphone 14, Iphone 12 etc (all unlocked). How many times am I allowed to transfer my ESim from Mint, and how many times am I able to transfer my Esim from US Mobile to various devices? I use to always like popping out my sim and sticking it in any device I own. Can I do this as freely with using Esim from Mint and Esim from US Mobile?
With the USM Unlimited Premium is the 50gb of hotspot in addition to the 100gb of on device data -or- once you use 50gb of hotspot you'll be left with 50gb of on-device data?
I don't live in us. I just watch to know what's going on but man it's very confusing wtf is pay extra for hotspot and unlimited with 100gb non of these make any sense.
I currently have the "old" Unlimited Premium (Verizon) with 4 lines and 2 perks. Unless they force me off of that plan at some point, I'm staying with it. It's a good deal and I don't really care about International calling or the little extras they've added. Thanks for the vid!
I have just started looking at US Mobile. They appear to have a new unlimited plan that has 30 GB data, 5 GB hotspot, for $25 including tax. This seems different than what you covered in the video, even though it's only been two months?
I just checked Verizon's visible website and their basic visible plan does not come with 5G ultra wideband. That seems important. Also, in both of the Verizon visible plans, data only streams at standard definition, 480. That's a dealbreaker for me. US Mobile I think streams at 720 but I will probably look for 4K.
which is better the visible+ or us mobile unlimited premium. Looking more at service not perks. I believe they prioritized right? Which is closer to actual Verizon services for signal strength and data speeds. I do like unlimited Hotspot ofb10gb from visible.
I just want to thank you for all the information. While my wife and daughter are on AT&T (and I get a Veteran Discount, so their lines are $45/month.) All taxes and fees have us at $51.19/month IIRC. I'm test driving Mint on an old iPhone 7. Wife and daughter's phones are owned outright (iPhone 12pro and iPhone XR) I will test drive some MVNOs who operate on Version like Red Pocket before I ultimately decide which to go with. I kinda want to have different providers for my wife and me since we travel. Just because AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile are the best at home doesn't mean that is the case elsewhere. Heck, I may leave her on AT&T and use the dual SIM feature on the used iPhone 13 pro I'm picking up today to replace the above mentioned iPhone 7 as people rush to the iPhone 15 family (wife included, daughter will probably get the 12 pro) We can travel with 3 or 4 different carriers and expect to have coverage in all but the most remote places. With the physical SIM phones, if we go to Europe, we could pick up an Orange SIM for less than what AT&T would charge for daily international usage. It's a glorious time to be alive with respect to connectivity.
visible offer goot price, but who wants to watch videos at 480p which u havent mention once lol!! just to watch videos at 720p is already a pain... imagine at 480p
One my friends said he’ll get texts or calls hours later on mint mobile only when he’s near hood house and he still pays for whole year even with that current issue so stupid
I was told by an online rep the hotspot works with the the starter plan, but it just grabs from your data allotment. 4:48… can anyone confirm? Currently on the 45 day trial!
US Mobile's plans have already changed since this review came out. Even better value now. Unlimited Starter is even better now with 30GB of priority full speed data and 5GB of hotspot data for $25 a month.
It shows $29 for me
changed again @@cockdieselsworld
@@cockdieselsworldyou can pay the whole year in advance for a substantial discount. Thinking about getting the unlimited premium for $37.50 a month by paying for the year.
Yeah they updated pricing
Hey Stetson!! Because of you I switched to Mint Mobile in March 2018 & never looked back!!!! BEST decision I ever made!! I purchased their yearly plan in Dec.2019 so when the pandemic hit I was basically CRUISING with no cell phone bill payments FOR A YEAR!!! Since then I only get the yearly plan. Thank you so much for creating this channel. I’ve been looking at your videos since the very start!!
Hey Lorrainea, thank you so much for your kind comment 😊 I’m happy to hear you’ve been enjoying Mint Mobile and saving money!
No payments for a year because you already paid it.😊
@raymondrodriguez5068…Well actually my husband paid it, however that’s besides the point. The yearly bill at that time was $237!! & what I sort of meant was no ridiculous monthly payments to Sprint or Verizon which I’ve had prior. My monthly Sprint bill was always over $100 so $237 per year was beyond amazing. If anything I had no phone payments for the year since my husband paid it, & $237 per year for PERFECT service is unheard of!!!
@@raymondrodriguez5068 yes but it was a bundle and cheaper than other carriers
I switched from my 15gb plan to the unlimited started plan and save like $3.00 more a month and get 5gbs more before it’s throttled. I am happy! 5G UWB and taxes and fees included. I am very happy with my service with US Mobile. They emailed me about the plan changes. I changed to them because of you a year ago! I am happy with my priority data!
I moved from Visible to US Mobile before the Plus plan was created. Visible was nice while it worked. It was a nightmare when you needed customer support. US Mobile is worth it for that alone. Unless things have DRASTICALLY changed, of course.
I switched from Verizon to Visible a couple months ago and haven’t had any issues. I’ve never needed to use costumer support, though I’ve heard it has improved.
I’m in the same boat here. Visible is great until you need support. If your eSIM fails to activate when switching phones, your whole account might get screwed. Over a week with support and them reassigning 5+ eSIMs and no luck getting service restored. Just gave up and had to port out.
Visible is unlimited with no speed caps. Us mobile after priority data is used up you want to get one megabyte per second versus 200 megabytes per second from visible... And also Verizon updated the visible servers so you're actually on the Verizon network not like US Mobile...
Visible is no different from Straighttalk from my research (looking it leave Straighttalk). I thought about going with visible, but they are QCI8 and thus not priority. "Premium" is not the same as priority. US Mobile is priority, QCI9 for so much data, then drops down.
I’ve been pretty happy with US Mobile. Even with their cheapest unlimited plan, I think once your rate is throttled, you’re still getting priority data. For a 1 Mbps connection, things like Twitter and browsing are still really fast (like, the same latency as unthrottled). Video streaming obviously takes a hit though. Their support team seems to have a lot more in their toolkit than most reps from Straight talk/Visible I’ve had to deal with.
I'm a US mobile customer since their beginning and in my bill I've never been charged taxes or fees, I pay 25 bucks even per line and that's it, minus my discount for perks.
I don't know if they changed at some point because they change their plans from time to time, but as a legacy customer, I can tell that the value is there, but not the practicality. Say I want to change my payment card, I can't just swap in the app because it will try to force into the new plans, so I need to chat with customer service every single time and that's always time consuming.
So far US mobile has been one of the best value carriers in the US, the big 3 are really out of reality 😎👍
visible is high speed with low priority. is tht fast enoiugh?
It's odd that changing payment card would require you to update to the new plan... is that still happening?
@@Trust_but_Verify if you want to update your payment method on your own it will lead you to change plans, if you're a legacy plan holder you're still required to chat with customer support to update your payment card.
To add cards and remove cards from your wallet that is doable without messing with your current plan, it's is just when you want to swap cards that is linked to a legacy plan that you need to chat with customer service so they can do it on their end, because apparently they don't have a way not to offer the legacy plan to new customers while not doing the opposite to older legacy customers.
@@cupidok2768 us mobile has priority data, I've never felt like my speed was lowered to prioritize first party T-mobile or Verizon users. At least not that I could prove otherwise.
Thanks! I've been with US Mobile for several months now and as long as they're in a reasonable ballpark with other MVNOs, I'll be with them for the foreseeable future. The customer service has been far better than other MVNOs I've tried. They have employees on their sub-reddit answer questions nearly 24 hrs. (it may be 24 hrs. but I haven't verified that.) The people responding are very nice as well.
Agreed
Just moved my entire family to US Mobile pooled plan. (5 lines on 12GB + additional 2gb for total of $61) Previously had 3X 5GB Mint Mobile plans + 2X 1GB Tello Mobile plans, with taxes and fees was paying just about $75 monthly. Was juggling around different apps and accounts, now all on same accounts+app, single monthly payment, all while saving $15+ a month for basically same service.
That’s amazing! Sounds like you are getting a great deal on service.
I am on US Mobile's old unlimited plan for $25/line with 4 lines no taxes or fees :). Plenty of premium data so I never feel like I am deprioritized.
Those plans were some of the best they ever offered!
Probably gonna need new vid, as they changed the unlimited plans
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Thank you! Is the gsm access on usmobile qci9?
GSM on US Mobile is deprioritized. On T-Mobile, that happens to be QCI 7.
Stetson, what if these MVNOs had an option for a truly unlimited plan with no streaming cap but a total speed limit of either 5, 10, 20, or 35 Mbps. They could also give the option of either deprioritized or premium data. What do you think of this?
I am using the new Shared Data plan with my wife. Now GSM can also have Shared Data plan. So I went with GSM and she went with Warp 5G. Whenever someone’s don’t get a coverage while the others still have (which happens a lot), we will share data through the hotspot😂
I am an international student and had signed up for us mobile's 5 Gb for ~$18 with the student discount. Over the summer when I was on my home country, I switched to the 500 mb plan to save money. Now that I came back to the US I saw the changes and like that I get an extra gig for the same amount just without the student discount
US Mobile is a great service and they have excellent customer service. I dumped my post-paid service 3 years ago and US Mobile works great. You can have others on your plan. Say you have kids and parents….you can add them to your plan and each pays for their lines. This keeps families together and costs low.
Ive had US mobile for a while ,old plan and i have $25 each line with 70gb per line. Barely used 5gb a month
I moved from the old 25gb plan which was $34 with taxes and hotspot add on to the 50gb plan for $40 taxes and fees included. With the priority data the plan give a post paid like experience.
Overall great update (specially the taxes and fees). I just wish there wasn’t such a huge blow to the perks which IMO US Mobile does the best.
What people thought was gonna happen was that US Mobile was going to have the unlimited plans at a flat $35 and $45 but it doesn't work that way. US Mobile messed up, they should've gave us 10GB hotspot on the starter unlimited plan and gave us 25GB hotspot on the unlimited essentials since they give us 100GB and 50GB on the hotspot for the unlimited premium plan.
That's very expensive for them to provide, and those plans don't provide enough revenue to make that math work out.
We had the pooled data plan currently for 3 lines ($9/line plus $2/gb and we use about 6gb in total per month, there is a $2 ish fee on top, making our old bill around $41 per month). We plan to switch to the new 6gb shared plan for $18+8x2=$34 to save some. I like the new change!
We switched too.
Old pool plan, 8GB. 3 lines. $44.44/month
New shared plan. 12GB. 3 lines. $41.00.
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So I had five lined pooled on the old plan for $50/mo with 1gb of data, switched to the new plan and am now getting 6gb with the same five lines for $50/mo, but their website calculator said it should only be like $46 (can’t remember exactly). Maybe it’ll go down next month. Still, an extra 5gb of data for when the old family members somehow blow through a gb randomly isn’t bad for the same price.
Somewhere it mentions unused top off data gets rolled over, is it just 1 month then expires?
The current 10gb shared data plan for 3 lines is $36.
@@HSterlingCross Now 5 lines 10gb is $52/mo.
@@Trust_but_Verify Or you could just go to the new annual light 2gb plan for $96/yr per line.
US mobile plans have been updated again and are now even better, unlimited started is now 25$ (taxes included) for 30gb plus 5gb hot spot
@StetsonDoggett great to see you back. Loved the new video on US Mobile. I was wondering do you have any plans to do a follow up though on Mobile X?
Yes, MobileX update please Stetson... and/or maybe an interview with Peter Adderton at some point in the not too distant future if he's game.
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Thank you! 😊
Just switched my mom from ATT to the 6gb US Mobile Warp (Verizon) and are saving $75 a month! ATT was a ripoff and a pain to deal with! US Mobile phone support was superior to ATT and I don’t notice a difference between her US Mobile and my Verizon Unlimited as far as speed/coverage which is amazing. She actually gets much faster speeds on US Mobile than ATT. Never going back to ATT! Thanks for the thorough walkthrough!
I'm grandfathered into a 75gb unlimited plan for 45 dollars. Not changing. I have to stay autopay though
Why in the US mobile data so expensive?
I live in Europe and I pay 12€ (~13$) for 160 GB and unlimited call, 500 messages (500 messages are nothing because we use emails and WhatsApp and/or Telegram) and 5G (with is not really 5G but oh well)
And add +5€ and you have unlimited mobile data, call and message, also 5G with unlimited bandwidth.
Can someone tell me why it's so expensive in the US? Lack of competition perhaps?
Bingo you nailed it, lack of proper competition and lack of consumer focused regulations like many EU countries have.
Here in the US our politicians are thoroughly regulatory-captured by these big companies and lobbyists.
End-stage capitalism abounds here among other stupidity, as you see on your news regularly.
I at least try to support good MVNOs like US Mobile and MobileX, to give these big carriers at least less business... they are hogs feeding on the majority of customers ignorance regarding options and their actual data needs.
@@nishiki393 hmm... very interesting... thanks for your knowledge!
How can you compare Europe to the United States when Europe has 50 different countries with 50 different leaders. The United States is one country with one leader or president Because Europe has so many countries they have a lot more cell companies .so competition is the main reason it's cheaper
These new US Mobile plans sound great sure my family and I live in New Zealand but we visit the USA on vacation often and my whole family now have phones that are compatible with US Mobile eSIM so this will be great for us when we visit the USA in the future
I had an odd problem when I tried Visible. They told me I didn't have an esim compatible phone (my pixel 6a IS compatible) so they would send me a physical sim in a few days. A week later, no sim. So I went to USMobile and had an esim up and running in less than five minutes on that exact same phone. BTW, that sim from visible arrived three WEEKS later. Needless to say I never activated it.
I had a bad activation issue when porting my number to Visible wireless. It was a ghetto experience and I couldn’t get any help for a while via chat. I almost lost my decade old number. So I quickly moved to US Mobile via eSim and it was connected and my number ported over within the hour. Had one issue with Wi-Fi calling but their tech team fixed it in a few days and very helpful. Love the premium data! I notes the difference from Verizon wireless prepaid to US Mobile immediately.
Your savings calculations are off. Major carriers postpaid plans all charge a $35 activation fee. For 4 lines that's already $140 that you aren't "saving"
The activation fee is one time. If you’d like to include it, just add $1/mo to the prices I showed. That would split the fee evenly over 36 months.
Still does not beat Visible for "unlimited" since the data is slowed down so bad when you are out, rather have the 50gbs premium and still have fast depri data afterwards. If Visible ever adds international outside the us it will be even better.
I remember reading that you can mix and match shared data. So for the extra cost of a line, one phone could "switch" between networks. It's not like Google Fi, but if you have GSM with physical SIM and esim on Warp, you can use both lines on the same phone.
I switched to the 25 us mobile on warp. It showed 30gb of priority and 5 gb of hotspot. I think it might be the best value plan even over visible
Tello better
Can not beat visible + $35 unlimited everything.
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I been with us mobile for 3 years been great (warp 5G)
I'm curious, what is the difference between priority data and premium data? Is one better than the other or is it kinda the same?
They are exactly the same.
@@StetsonDoggettif they’re both the same, why did you put Priority Data and Premium data on separate slides? I went on Google and started to figure out the difference and came across the QCI numbers. I had US Mobile 15gb plan plan that is 25.00 plus fees and taxes prior with priority data. Now I moved to the unlimited started plan with 5 gbs more and no taxes and fees anymore.
Us mobile they changed there all plans and prices also now you will have international calls with Verizon please update it
Does international calling really matter anymore when you have apps like WhatsApp to call around the world for free? Assuming the other person has it too obviously.
The U.S. mobile seems awesome! I had it a few years ago when I didn't get priority data, oh boy it was rough in high density areas. I couldn't even load music during those times. It was frustrating. Glad to see some improvement.
We are a family of six we use 2.5 tb of data a month on att premium we just got 5g+ getting over 700 down and 30 up.
How much of that 2.5TB of usage is because of your line, Green? 😂
@@StetsonDoggett 700-800gb a month
Do a review on Crickets new multi month plans. I'd switch if I didn't still have Metro $25 unlimited switch plan.
This yearly lock-in game is just a subdued form of contract. They want you to have skin in the game so you can't easily switch if their coverage or customer service is bad or your needs change. Make sure you consider if this discount is worth it to you.
Im on the family plan discount with 4 lines. For $23.30 a month that provides unlimited call/text and 30GB of data pretty good deal. Def not going to change plans.
Your $23.30/mo is per line, or for all 4 lines? Current 3 lines 10gb is $36/mo. for 3 lines.
US Mobile just updated their plans again today!!! 🎉
Is their service good? Im trying to decide between USM, Mint, Boost, or Metro by Tmobile. I need the most bang for my buck. And it has to be a non verizon mvno. What would you recommend?
hopefully we get an update from stetson!
@KikiSoFlyy so what do you chose?
@@KikiSoFlyy🤔
@@galaxyg1230 I went with Boost and the service has been great so far!
Thank you for doing this video Stetson. My wife and I switched over to a pooled plan (sharing 30gb). I elected for us to do so to ensure we have hotspot data. We used to be on separate plans of 15gb each and then paid for hotspot on each line. That's been eliminated (adding hotspot) of course. Like it so far. If 30gb is too much we may take a shot at sharing 12gb. We plan on getting the iPhone 15 in October so who knows what's next but we remain loyal US Mobile customers.
Thoughts on Tello?
Finally I was waiting for this one!
U.S MOBILE also offers student discount for us students! We need all the discounts we could get lol
Unlimited Started now has 30 GB on High Speed Data for $25 including tax, I just downgraded because I use less than 20 GB per month.
I think my old unlimited basic plan good. Cause I have 4 lines making my price go $93 with taxes and fees
I know US Mobile is prepaid carrier. Does this mean I get every month those text messages from company when bill due, paid, and refilled?
I just get one message from them each month when the transaction takes place.
Looks like they offer 5GB hotspot data and 30GB Premium data now (three weeks after this video released) on the Unlimited Starter plan for $25/mo. Looks pretty good for me. Just wondering if the “Priority Data” is really priority data. Seems odd that they would offer true prioritized data for this price!
I'm on the $45 plan, looks like taxes were always included for me
You are a PRO
WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW AND WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE NEW PLANS. All new plans are actually unlimited and the user pays for all of the data used. For example if one buys the $25 for 25GB high speed then unlimited 1mbps, you PAY for that additional unlimited 1mbps. I used over 4GB of my monthly allocated data and those 4GB are getting substracted for the next month! Stetson, can you comment on this? essentially in their new plans, one pre-pays for a set amount of data and post-paid for anything above. And what one can use above the pre-paid amount is unlimited, so your bill could potentially run in the $$ thousands!!!
Dude what software do you use for your infographics
You won't believe it -- Apple Keynote
Helium Mobile offers $5 unlimited plan using T-Mobile tower if you live in Miami.
I have used Us Mobile for about a year. Problem I have with them is, sometimes people would call my phone and they get a message that says my phone is disconnected. Same thing with my wife phone. Works when it wants to but can be funky
Did you try contacting customer service about it cuz that sounds like something that shouldn't be happening? If you did contact them, what did they say ?
@@chrisp7673 I did. They wanted me to download a sketchy app.
I had to upgrade to US Mobile starter but it wasn't 20gb, mine is UNLIMITED for all of it.
Are you going to do a video to review the new version of unlimited starter? It comes with 30 gb now and hotspot included
Can you do a new video about the best cellphone plans?
I have tmobile postpaid the old unlimited us mobile for "$45" for my iPhone and visible for my laptop.
Gotta stick with my US Mobile Unlimited Basic plan $34.36 (2) per line with 40 GB per line and 5GB hotspot hard to beat!
My only concern with US Mobile is that the call center is based in Islamabad. Everyone I've spoken to was polite, but Pakistan, being a safe haven for ISIS and the Taliban is not a country that i want all of my private data and credit card information floating around.
It is not safe haven for these groups. More than 250 million people live in the country with almost no fear of going outside. There may be some areas on the Afghan border which were no go areas until 2016 but not anymore.
Pakistanis are our friends.
@@CalvinTennesseeyou mean the one's who were hiding Bin Laden
I'm sticking with Visible.
I wish, but T-Mobile is unusable in Grand Rapids
I am in Mexico looks like you get unlimited data roaming with visible +
Same
@@mattf3761visible is Verizon lol..
@@rockvilleraventhats exactly what I just did was using their $40 new plan with 50 gigs and noticed myself using only about 30 gigs of data a month and even if I go over 30 gigs the 1 megabit per second speeds are enough to watch videos and do everything I need my data to do for me so in my opinion whether you want T-Mobile or Verizon coverage and if you want it at an amazing price this is the way to go and I am willing to argue with people about it cause I’ve used visible I’ve also used mint mobile and straight talk and boost mobile and us cellular and at one point in time I lived in a rural area and had to use cspire wireless so long story short I have used every carrier because cspire only had towers in the rural areas and whenever I left those areas for work I would be roaming on Sprint towers so I have literally used every single phone plan and company out there and so far US Mobile is going to be my longterm pick at this point
Thanks for the video!
So is the hotspot data on top of your regular data? Or is it part of it? For example, for the Unlimited Essentials, if you use the 5gb hotspot, do you still have 50gb left of data?
Hotspot data deducts from your high-speed data allotment. If you use 5GB of hotspot, you will have 45GB of high-speed data remaining.
Great videos. Very informative and well done. Could you add Google Fi to your comparisons?!
Hi! Love your channel . Maybe you can help me decide . I’m coming from sprint , and I’m paying 110 a month for one line , because I had unlimited everything and a ton of perks . Now that T-Mobile took them over , they’re eliminating all my perks , so I’m leaving . I’m a high data user , 50gb a month listing to a lot of music and lots of internet and RUclips . Visible plus seems to cost 50, the top us mobile plan is 50, but mint is 15 if I pay in advance ? Am I missing something ?
Redpocket 360 is 99 annual tor 1gb, each line seems OK for three people at least. I'll stick with them but glad there's tighter competition.
i honestly think $50 for the premium plan is a steal considering it comes with native roaming
So I currently have the 4 line family plan from us Mobile with the 2 perks. Will the 2 perks go away now?
I am not 100% sure, but it seems likely the perks will eventually phase out.
Question, I’m still grandfathered into the unlimited all plan. Is that one worth giving up for these new plan??
Question.... do all US Mobile plans offer Priority data? Or only for the Unlimited Plans?
I tryed visible but incoming picture quality from iphones too my samsung s22 ultra was awful couldn't make them out
Visible is ghetto. Like the Spirit Airlines of the Prepaid Cellphone world. Worse then Cricket and probably Boost. US Mobile (on their Verizon side) is excellent! I feel like I’m on Verizon and pay only $25.00 a month now!😂
Visible after 50 GB u are stranded without internet 😮
I don't get it. On the shared side, as a single line, with all the bells and whistles and taxes, the 15GB plan was $1.82/GB, now its 12GB counter is $2.08 and that's better? The 5GB and 25GB plans are better upgraded, but the 2GB and 15GB are not.
The $10 1GB plan can be turned into $12 for 2GB by purchasing a 1GB data add-on for $2. That would be $12 flat for 2GB, with hotspot included and taxes and fees included. That’s better than the previous 2GB plan!
Recently switched my family to visible from AT&T prepaid and cut my bill in half
So does the T-Mobile network version with the unlimited plan give you prioritized data now? Or is it still deprioritized?
Visible may look good on paper. With the lack of REAL customer support aka calling in to talk to someone I passed their services. I value real customer service and will and have gladly paid more for that one caveat alone. But if you like visible kudos to you!
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What about calling & text?? Is that separate from the Data? Or it's all limited to the Data Plan?
I’m going to switch to us mobile after my visible new customer promo ends.
Is the speed the same for shared plans as the unlimited plans (assuming you don't go over your data allowance)?
Stetson, I have 2 lines (one with Mint and one with US Mobile). I have multiple devices/ a Fold 3, Flip 3, Iphone 14, Iphone 12 etc (all unlocked). How many times am I allowed to transfer my ESim from Mint, and how many times am I able to transfer my Esim from US Mobile to various devices? I use to always like popping out my sim and sticking it in any device I own. Can I do this as freely with using Esim from Mint and Esim from US Mobile?
With the USM Unlimited Premium is the 50gb of hotspot in addition to the 100gb of on device data -or- once you use 50gb of hotspot you'll be left with 50gb of on-device data?
I don't live in us. I just watch to know what's going on but man it's very confusing wtf is pay extra for hotspot and unlimited with 100gb non of these make any sense.
I currently have the "old" Unlimited Premium (Verizon) with 4 lines and 2 perks. Unless they force me off of that plan at some point, I'm staying with it. It's a good deal and I don't really care about International calling or the little extras they've added. Thanks for the vid!
I have just started looking at US Mobile. They appear to have a new unlimited plan that has 30 GB data, 5 GB hotspot, for $25 including tax. This seems different than what you covered in the video, even though it's only been two months?
I just checked Verizon's visible website and their basic visible plan does not come with 5G ultra wideband. That seems important. Also, in both of the Verizon visible plans, data only streams at standard definition, 480. That's a dealbreaker for me. US Mobile I think streams at 720 but I will probably look for 4K.
What about roaming onto other networks is this available ???
which is better the visible+ or us mobile unlimited premium. Looking more at service not perks. I believe they prioritized right? Which is closer to actual Verizon services for signal strength and data speeds. I do like unlimited Hotspot ofb10gb from visible.
Visible+ is a better value.
Im cool with backup numbers from hello
Great video as always!!
I just want to thank you for all the information.
While my wife and daughter are on AT&T (and I get a Veteran Discount, so their lines are $45/month.) All taxes and fees have us at $51.19/month IIRC.
I'm test driving Mint on an old iPhone 7. Wife and daughter's phones are owned outright (iPhone 12pro and iPhone XR)
I will test drive some MVNOs who operate on Version like Red Pocket before I ultimately decide which to go with.
I kinda want to have different providers for my wife and me since we travel. Just because AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile are the best at home doesn't mean that is the case elsewhere.
Heck, I may leave her on AT&T and use the dual SIM feature on the used iPhone 13 pro I'm picking up today to replace the above mentioned iPhone 7 as people rush to the iPhone 15 family (wife included, daughter will probably get the 12 pro)
We can travel with 3 or 4 different carriers and expect to have coverage in all but the most remote places.
With the physical SIM phones, if we go to Europe, we could pick up an Orange SIM for less than what AT&T would charge for daily international usage.
It's a glorious time to be alive with respect to connectivity.
Can we look at devices for these carriers? Currently have a 13 pro max and would like to get the 15 pro max deal.
but does the tmobile 5G GSM include 5G UC?
Yes, it does.
I do not think it will show the icon but it is supported
Hey Stetson, which type of data is considered better- priority or premium?
Priority data and Premium data mean the same thing.
Unlimited starter doesn’t have international data. Or does it?
Can you explain apple new iphone 15 pro/pro max trade in? Thx
visible offer goot price, but who wants to watch videos at 480p which u havent mention once lol!! just to watch videos at 720p is already a pain... imagine at 480p
One my friends said he’ll get texts or calls hours later on mint mobile only when he’s near hood house and he still pays for whole year even with that current issue so stupid
will get any updates on Hellomobile?
I was told by an online rep the hotspot works with the the starter plan, but it just grabs from your data allotment. 4:48… can anyone confirm? Currently on the 45 day trial!
What is the difference between the premium data and priority data?
They are different words that mean the same thing. Some carriers market the data as “priority.” Some call it “premium.” Both are the same.
US Mobile has changed their plans again for the better
Is correct