I’ve been switching plans trying to find the best at Madera Elementary School. Cricket (AT&T MNVO), Mint (T-Mobile MVNO), and Redpocket (using their AT&T MVNO) all offered terrible service in the past year, which is to say that phone calls and texts rarely connect. Right now I have Visible (Verizon MVNO) and service is “less terrible”, which is to say phone calls and texts connect about 1\/2 the time. But I’m frustrated with Visible at my home on Potrero, SMS sometimes take 30 minutes to arrive and 1\/2 my incoming calls go straight to voicemail instead of ringing. Argh!!<\/p>\n
The Madera “BYOD” wifi apparently blocks all messaging services like Signal and Whatsapp and wifi calling. It’s actually worse to turn my wifi on because then my phone thinks “ah, the wifi must be better than the cell service” but it is not! Hey, if anyone has found a messaging app that works on the Madera wifi, please tell us!<\/p>\n
I’m thinking of switching to Redpocket and using their Verizon MVNO (Redpocket offers both AT&T and Verizon MVNO service), or switching to Verizon, but paying $70\/month instead of $25\/month is a bother for only getting “less terrible” service!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been switching plans trying to find the best at Madera Elementary School. Cricket (AT&T MNVO), Mint (T-Mobile MVNO), and Redpocket (using their AT&T MVNO) all offered terrible service in the past year, which is to say that phone calls and texts rarely connect. Right now I have Visible (Verizon MVNO) and service is “less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10972,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions\/10972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}