I bought ten $50 AT&T gift cards on Target.com today because they were on sale for 10% off. After adding them to my account, I realized these gift cards have a 90-day expiration limit, and they’re non-refundable. My monthly bill is only around $30, so now I’m a bit worried. Does the expiration period start from the purchase date at Target, or from the date I load them into my account? If it’s the latter, could I extend the balance expiration by adding another $50 card when the balance is close to expiring? Otherwise, I think I bought way too many, and I’m gonna cry. Thank you all for any comments!

I have 2 phones and a hotspot on cricket. I recently lost my job and can't get unemployment. My service ends Saturday night. I did qualify for a lifeline phone so I'll be able to get and make calls for doctors and other assistance needs. Would it be better to port my established number to the lifeline phone or to Google voice. That way if I'm able to get back on my feet I still have the number everybody knows and for security questions for websites and other apps

The Saily app is not compatible with my Samsung phone (odd?). Do I need the app to use the European service or will the website allow for usage of the product? Also considering Alo, is that a reliable data service as well? At least I can download their app.

I know that they are owned by the same company, but do the current $25 promotion on both Networks have the same unlimited data, and the same unlimited priority data?

I went to StraightTalk.com/Activate and ported my number. Now it seems I'm just waiting for it to port. I am getting spammed by Verizon saying my port has been stopped, but it won't let me respond to the text in any way (I respond Y and it just says the conversation is closed. Then I get a new text saying my port is stopped minutes later).

I have work in 3 hours, so I'm just waiting for the port to go through.

Should I keep my phone off the entire time? Is it fine to use it for GPS? Will my number actually port successfully?

Hi everyone

Ported to Total Wireless today. Was on the phone with customer support for hours. On the website when signing up, I put my phone's IMEI, and when the port was successful, in my phone settings, the IMEI assigned to total wireless shows that it assigned to my 2nd available IMEI. I haven't had data, and calls worked, texts sometimes worked. I ported in from US Mobile's vzw service if that makes a difference, iPhone 13 mini. Went through 3 tiers of customer support and they can't figure it out. They said they’d call me later after their provision could take effect, but of course never did. Anyone have any ideas of a fix? Thanks

Edit: just wanted to say it’s been fixed. I looked on my account and there was a new “activate” notification on my dashboard. I reactivated my phone on the original eSIM and it worked. I guess whatever they did after saying they’d call back worked.

When trying to send a text message from 2 different Verizon phones (VZ postpaid) running on iOS and one Verizon MVNO (Android) were getting the message "Not delivered" (in iOS) and "Not sent" (in Android).

RCS message from Android worked. Couldn't test RCS from iOS.

Sms text from Google voice and tello (T-mo) gets delivered too.

Is there any ongoing issue or should we reach out to customer care to get this fixed?

We do not have another Lycamobile no. to cross verify.

going from us mobile to total wireless fwiw

AT&T praises itself after getting caught taking too much money from FCC program https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/att-praises-itself-after-getting-caught-taking-too-much-money-from-fcc-program/

Just as the title says. Annual plans welcome, just to keep from dealing w/ this all the time. I need to commit ASAP, as my current Ultra Mobile plan expires in 2 weeks.

Best I've seen is https://www.lycamobile.us/en/ucustomer/3gb-data/ but obviously prefer more data. I think I can work w/ them (I used to have same plan 3 years ago w/ 5GB, iIrc), but don't understand the recent distrust of them I've read here. Are they actually worse in some significant way than back then?

tl;Dr my first purchase with infimobile was great. second one gave me a broken SIM card and if I didn't get it through Amazon the return process seems like it would be a nightmare. strongly urge people too either avoid the company or order through Amazon..

so this is a new company obviously and they 9have very competitive pricing. but obviously some people are a little shaded out by almost suspiciously low pricing and very little name recognition which I understand. so I thought I might share my anecdotes purchasing two of their SIM cards 6 months apart. hardly scientific I know but for a company this young even anecdotes are better than nothing.

about 6 months ago they had a crazy good deal, which was referenced here, where you could get $20 for 6 months of 5 GB a month coverage. I gave it a try since it was so cheap and it worked out extremely well.

The coverage was great in my house, which was never the case with T-Mobile based MVOs although your mileage will vary. once or twice when I was out and about my coverage would slow down but mostly speaking it was an incredibly great bargain at 20 bucks.

such a great bargain that I convinced my mother to give it a try. we ordered 3 months at 10 GB a month for like 30 bucks or so.

we activated it, everything worked fine we got a new phone number. but when we put it in my mom's phone number the SIM card was not recognized. in fact it recognized no SIM card at all. other SIM cards worked fine and when I tried popping the infomobile SIM in a different phone it also showed up is not existing.

I have no idea if this is an outlier experience but I'm grateful I actually bought this from Amazon. because infimobile was not responsive to queries.

in fact initially Amazon reached out to them and because they didn't get back to me within 48 hours they gave me the refund. they didn't force me to return the SIM card or anything either. ironically if the company had gotten back to them in time I probably would have had to send at least the packaging back in and wait another week or two to get my refund... I have no idea if they would have covered the $4 in shipping or charge it a restocking fee or anything. read the reviews comments some people complain about those things

so anyways, it's only a sample size of two purchases but while the first one was an amazing deal... with a functioning sim. The second deal was frustrating, and if I didn't buy it through Amazon I don't know if it would have been rectified.

Looking at circledin and their website is really broken. It’s been at least two months now since T-Mobile plans are not appearing. All that their Reddit page says is that “updates” are occurring for the website. Really wanted to join but cannot.

I have an iPhone SE on US Mobile and when the phone is turned off, it says the call cannot be completed. It also will not allow a voicemail to be left because the “Verizon” message is saying the call cannot be completed.

Anybody else experienced this and what is the fix? Network reset changed nothing, making a call works so account is active.

Hey all - I'm looking for partners to launch an MVNO. I've done extensive research and partnered with a lot of household brands to offer potential customers ton of values for joining our network. We will be operating under the T-mobile network.

I have discount on smartphones and accessories. I have secured a wholesaler for unlimited talk, text & data at a fair price. If anyone is interested, let's connect and discuss further.

I live in a rural area with spotty coverage. My current phone visible works ok (2 bars) where I live but when I go see my gf it doesn’t work at all. Her phone which is straight talk doesn’t work at my place either. So was wondering if there is a universal mvno that rides on the back bone of all the major carriers?

Hi Folks:

I'd like a burner phone.

Nothing criminal, just want to a couple of accounts on sites like Telegram, that require a phone number, sites that have no need to know who I am.

I'm not interested in going full James Bond and de-googling the phone. I just want to pay for the phone and a card that has minutes with cash, and then activate the phone and recharge the minutes without identifying myself. I'm fine with giving a spam trap Gmail account when asked.

A friend who was gifted a Track Phone said he paid about $100 a year, which seems reasonable.

Today a sales guy at Best Buy told me I'd need to provide legitimate information, something about the IMEI number.

I'd like a cheap Android. Would a dumb flip phone be more secure?

So what's the situation. Can I buy a phone and a card with cash and have a burner?

Thanks
Larry

The website doesn't work, it opens a blank white page.

I have 2 lines with them, they sent 2 sim cards, how do I know which sim card is for which number?

I saw a 2 year tracfone plan for $50… i also saw redpocket $30 per year… i hear bad reviews from tracfone though…

Am I correct thinking that the data in Mobile X Unlimited plan, is equal to the data in the TW Unlimited that is currently on sale for half price? That's $25 and tax for Mobile X, and $25 for TW. I can't get the TW deal, because I'm a former customer, and my phone number is in there database. Just checking that speed and priority are the same

Hey all, I purchased a IPhone 15 pro max around November 2023. I am about to switch to Verizon. My phone is paid off but my IPhone is still carrier locked. Xfinity Mobile store doesn’t seem to be able to help me after 2 store visits and multiple calls. I give up, but my family plan that my line is in already switched to Verizon and I’m here with a SIMcard for a cellphone I can’t even get it to work with. My iPhone I’m using only on WiFi at the moment. They gave us 1 month for me figure this out or my family is just going to get a refund and cancel my plan. Does anyone know any software programs paid/free that actually work to carrier unlock iPhones? Or any websites that offer to carrier unlock your phone and actually do it successfully.

Need to understand if a mobile carrier can hold my cell number. I’m on a corporate plan but without a contract and my phone was unlocked 3-4 months after switching from AT&T to T-Mobile. I’ve been advised in order to keep my existing mobile number after switching from corporate plan to a personal plan, I would have to stay with T-Mobile. Is this correct?

Most of you probably know by now about Total's $25 or $30 plans for 50% off (normally $50 or $60 with AutoPay). Well, I decided to bring over a few people and ho-lee shite I've never seen more incompetent customer support (just flat out annoying to talk to) and the promotion is a pain to get reflected.

New issue: I referred some people I got to switch and I didn't get any points and neither did they. Support has no idea what to do.

The 50% deal ends 11/10 if you're thinking of risking switching.

I live in a Midwest area. AT&T works best here, not sure about other carriers. Is there a map that I can use to tell?

tl;dr, young adult who is trying to be more independent since I've got a full time job and all that jazz and I'm trying to become less dependent on my parents overall. I've already got my carrier unlocked phone coming (nothing fancy, Samsung A35 5G) and like most everyone here, I hate the idea of being tied down to a phone plan where I barely use 99% of whatever they're overcharging me for.

I work from home, so i'm on wifi 99% of the time, so I'm not super worried about data usage, though I'd prefer to have "unlimited" data (even if it gets de-prioritized/limited after X amount of GB's, I live in the boonies so it's either always congested or barely functional) just in the rare off chance it matters, or at the very least a sort of "À la carte" method where I can easily pre-load how much data I think I'd need. If possible, but not a deal breaker, i'd like to be able to get/pre-load a solid amount of hotspot data just in the off case my home wifi goes down and I need to hotspot my work PC to my phone (though it's not a deal breaker if it's asking too much).

All three of the major carriers around me have some sway but Verizon is the main one, and I'd prefer Verizon if it means it'd be easier to keep/transfer my number to the new plan.

I've seen names like USMobile, Visible, and MobileX thrown around but no one can seem to really agree what's better on average.

I have read the posts here that Visible+ is better than Total Wireless. However how is the Total Wireless Base plan compared to the Visible base? Both have the same price ($20/month).

Thanks.

I'm looking for a good plan that will primarily allow me to call and text my son. Data isn't a priority, but it would be nice if it had some low-speed data available so we could track location etc. I'd actually prefer unlimited, but low speed data, over high speed data. He's already addicted enough to his phone!

Anything like this out there?