{"id":5044,"date":"2012-05-29T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2012-05-29T02:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T09:28:02","slug":"any-opinions-on-virgin-mobile-in-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/any-opinions-on-virgin-mobile-in-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Opinions on Virgin Mobile in Bay Area?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking of switching from my AT&#038;T cell phone plan with an Android phone (Samsung Captivate, AKA SGH-I897, AKA Galaxy S) to Virgin Mobile. <\/p>\n<p>What is your experience?<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the difference is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>AT&#038;T<\/strong> (monthly)<br \/>\n$75<br \/>\n200 MB data<br \/>\n1000 texts<br \/>\n450 Rollover minutes<br \/>\nUnlimited talking with other AT&#038;T cell phones<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virgin Mobile<\/strong><br \/>\n$45 ($30 less!)<br \/>\nunlimited MB data (I dunno if I could use more than 500 MB\/month)<br \/>\nunlimited texts (I sometimes use 500 texts\/month)<br \/>\n1200 minutes (plenty)<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I can sell my phone on eBay for $100, buy an LG Optimus Elite for $150, and start saving $30\/month.<\/p>\n<p>Why shouldn&#8217;t I do this? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/any-opinions-on-virgin-mobile-in-bay-area\/#comments\">Leave a comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking of switching from my AT&#038;T cell phone plan with an Android phone (Samsung Captivate, AKA SGH-I897, AKA Galaxy S) to Virgin Mobile. What is your experience? It looks like the difference is: AT&#038;T (monthly) $75 200 MB data 1000 texts 450 Rollover minutes Unlimited talking with other AT&#038;T cell phones Virgin Mobile $45 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}