{"id":9892,"date":"2023-02-25T08:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2023-04-25T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:40:16","slug":"unsolicited-phone-service-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/25\/unsolicited-phone-service-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsolicited Phone Service Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is unsolicited phone service advice. (a friend asked me about phone service recommendations and you gain the benefit)<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR: Mint Mobile good. Use the referral code below to save $15.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy with my Google Pixel 5, bought used on Swappa.com last year, they&#8217;re now available there for ~$130. I&#8217;ve been happy with Cricket Wireless for ~5 years. I switched to Mint Mobile a month ago and I&#8217;ve found that service is exactly the same as with Cricket but 40% less expensive. Mint uses T-mobile towers while Cricket uses AT&amp;T towers if that matters in your area. About 10 years ago, AT&amp;T had better service in my area than T-Mobile but service has filled in apparently! There&#8217;s no way to know how good service is in your house or office, etc&#8230; except to ask a friend with the same provider to use their phone in your space, or to just try switching.<\/p>\n<p>After the first 3 months of service, to continue getting the $15\/month rate that Ryan Reynolds keeps touting, you&#8217;ve got to sign up for a 12-month plan (see image below). I might switch to the mid-priced 6-month service before I do a year of pre-paid service. I use the 10GB\/month plan so it&#8217;s a little more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>If you use my phone number or <a href=\"http:\/\/fbuy.me\/unaCn\">this referral code<\/a> when signing up, you&#8217;ll get $15 free money<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I like Mint Mobile better than Cricket because they allow me to use my phone as an internet hotspot and wifi calling works. And the Ryan Reynolds Youtube commercials give me a laugh too. :-)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also very happy with <a href=\"https:\/\/cravedirect.com\/collections\/pixel-5-cases\/products\/pixel-5-case-dual-guard\">my phone case from Crave<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mint-600x457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mint-600x457.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mint-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mint-120x91.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mint-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mint-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/mint.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is unsolicited phone service advice. (a friend asked me about phone service recommendations and you gain the benefit) TL;DR: Mint Mobile good. Use the referral code below to save $15. I&#8217;m very happy with my Google Pixel 5, bought used on Swappa.com last year, they&#8217;re now available there for ~$130. I&#8217;ve been happy with [&hellip;]<\/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-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892","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=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9982,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions\/9982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}