Is Google Fi better than Verizon?

[Mike Dee]

That depends where your location is

If it's overall verses by location I'll take overall because I don't stay in one spot

 

[mustang7757]

If it's overall verses by location I'll take overall because I don't stay in one spot

They definitely have better coverage, but say if your on tmobile and get good coverage in your area but not when traveling just get a Verizon or att prepaid card use it for a month and your good to go.

 

[Mike Dee]

They definitely have better coverage, but say if your on tmobile and get good coverage in your area but not when traveling just get a Verizon or att prepaid card use it for a month and your good to go.

I'm talking day to day. I travel from upper Westchester near Bear Mountain to Lower Manhattan every day.

 

[lcneed]

Re: Google Fi

I tried the Hangouts trick, but the phone would never ring during a call. Only would receive a missed call notification.

It works for me, but in Hangouts, I think you need to select the account with the GV number as the current account then it will ring. Also you may also need to install the Hangout Dialer app on top of just Hangout app. Same as you, I had a GV number but didn't want to port that one to Fi so I moved that to another google account and port my AT&T number over to Fi. After that, my original GV number said I can no longer forward to my mobile number because once it ported to Fi, it became another GV number and can't forward one GV to another GV.

 

[mustang7757]

I'm talking day to day. I travel from upper Westchester near Bear Mountain to Lower Manhattan every day.

Yeah definitely better to stick with Verizon... I know TMobile great coverage in the city but going into bear mountain or Catskill that's probably where you run into reception problem On TMobile. I'm not sure how att will be ?

 

[18t]

Re: Google Fi

It works for me, but in Hangouts, I think you need to select the account with the GV number as the current account then it will ring. Also you may also need to install the Hangout Dialer app on top of just Hangout app. Same as you, I had a GV number but didn't want to port that one to Fi so I moved that to another google account and port my AT&T number over to Fi. After that, my original GV number said I can no longer forward to my mobile number because once it ported to Fi, it became another GV number and can't forward one GV to another GV.

Hangouts dialer did the trick! Thanks for the tip.

 

[kjung7]

I just switched from Verizon. I'm actually getting better signal in a lot of areas where I barely had 3G with Verizon. I'm in a rural area (Champaign, IL). Im really liking the VPN built into Google Fi.

 

[startrak140]

Just left Verizon after 10+ years. Got the pixel 3xl on the black Friday deal. Loving it so far. My bill is 44 dollars for the month. I use very little data, always on wifi.

 

[patruns]

I am switching 2 LG G6s over now from T-Mobile. Have used T-Mobil for years and have been very happy. Coverage in my area is great but lately they have been dropping the ball on my auto pay for pre-paid plans. Since I am satisfied with the coverage and Fi uses their towers it seems like a no brainer for me. I also like the international coverage, though where I go that would be reduced to 2 G so I will probably keep my Telekom Serbia SIM cards and old Nexus 5 phones for over there. Should be good though when I stop on the way back in another country.

 

[lcneed]

I switched 6 of my lines from AT&T to T-mobile, and switched my own line to Fi. You just can't beat T-mobile's pricing and they also have great coverage. Most of the time my Fi pixel 3 is on T-mobile anyway. The only reason I switch mine to Fi is because they gave me $900 service credit to cover the phone. I can't beat a free phone with no trade in.

 

[ImTurningViolet]

In case anyone was wondering, we completed our first month of Fi but we'll be switching back to MetroPCS when our promotional credits are gone.

Service has been great! We kept our data under 1gb easily. After the second week I didn't even worry about it. Xfinity is everywhere where we live so it was really simple.

The problem is that the taxes and fees in my state make it not worth it to keep Fi. $35+ $7 for data seems awesome but the taxes and fees are $19.25 (!!!) in SF. That makes it about $8 less than our old MetroPCS plan that was $70 unlimited everything. I had been wondering what our data would be like on road trips when I keep GPS on. Looks like a we'll switch back in a few months and I won't have to worry about it.

 

[18t]

In 3 weeks, I've only been to 1 or 2 places where my old verizon would have had service, and that was in the mountains. I had full cell service, just no data. I think that is due to agreements between carriers since the tower could probably only handle so much volume.

I've been happy and will probably not return to verizon. Colorado taxes are reasonable, so I'm expecting my bill to be about $30-35 a month and save me $300 per year.

 

[kjung7]

I switched to Fi recently. Located in central IL Verizon usually has the best service, but I'm surprised to report that in a lot of areas I'm finding that Fi has better signal than Verizon. especially at my house Verizon has maybe 1 bar of LTE but Fi has full bars. Also, I recently went to Kauai for vacation and was surprised to find that Fi had decent signal, but I did lose data in a few places but for the most part cell signal was still there. I'm not switching back to Verizon.

 

[hallux]

taxes and fees are $19.25 (!!!) in SF

The taxes and fees each carrier pays to governments are the same, though dependent upon where you are. How the carrier bills/charges/displays these is different. Some carriers find a way to roll it into the plan, others break it out into a separate line-item and add it to the bill. Taxes and regulatory fees in my location are under $6 (I'm with Fi).

 

[Almeuit]

The taxes and fees each carrier pays to governments are the same, though dependent upon where you are. How the carrier bills/charges/displays these is different. Some carriers find a way to roll it into the plan, others break it out into a separate line-item and add it to the bill. Taxes and regulatory fees in my location are under $6 (I'm with Fi).

Well in the rest of her post she mentioned she had Metro PCS and was going back to them.. they roll it in. Hence her not noticing it with her old 70 unlimited plan. She paid 70 not 70 + taxes.

 

[ImTurningViolet]

The taxes and fees each carrier pays to governments are the same, though dependent upon where you are. How the carrier bills/charges/displays these is different. Some carriers find a way to roll it into the plan, others break it out into a separate line-item and add it to the bill. Taxes and regulatory fees in my location are under $6 (I'm with Fi).

I figured out why they were so much. It's because Fi treats my account with my husband as two separate accounts and we're charged fees for both of them.

I wasn't shocked that we were charged fees, I was just surprised they were double what I expected. So back to MetroPCS we go in a couple of months. Where they're included in the price.

 

[18t]

My old Verizon bill was around $60 for the service. Thus far I've been pleased with my service and am not regretting my decision.