Question regarding AT&T and Straight talk.

[ctowne]

If your coverage is good with the carrier you choose in areas where you will mostly be staying, ST is OK
But ST does not offer true roaming, which means if there are no AT&T antennas in a certain area you are visiting, you will get 0 signal.
with AT&T, if you are traveling and there is no AT&T antenna, you will get roaming and your phone will use T-Mo or other local carrier's towers.

This is the major difference between ST and T-Mobile and I would assume same applies to AT&T.. Which is why they let you pick a service.
Correct me, someone, if I am wrong.

I would stay away from ST if you are on the move and need constant service.
Otherwise, I think it is OK in places like NY? Maybe someone in NY can chime in, but at $15 cheaper compared to others, there must be something that's lacking (like no customer service, or in cases they just cut your internet service to EDGE speeds without warning)

They no longer will randomly throttle you. They have updated their terms to allow you 2.5GB of high speed data (LTE+HSPA) and then they will throttle you down to EDGE.

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[heading4tomorrow]

They no longer will randomly throttle you. They have updated their terms to allow you 2.5GB of high speed data (LTE+HSPA) and then they will throttle you down to EDGE.

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Are they taxing people with FCC, 911, compliance, etc.. now or is it just pure sales tax on top of $45?

 

[N4Newbie]

That's another point about AIO, by the way: the $55/month plan costs exactly $55 - no taxes or other fees. Same for the other two plans, $40/month and $70/month.

 

[Wildo6882]

They no longer will randomly throttle you. They have updated their terms to allow you 2.5GB of high speed data (LTE+HSPA) and then they will throttle you down to EDGE.

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Their TOS still says something about cutting off service from continuous video streaming. If they cut you off for watching a few YouTube videos or 30 minutes of Pandora, then I'm out. But I'd like to hear some personal reviews on this issue. ST at $90 for me and the Mrs would save us over $100/mo over Verizon.

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[heading4tomorrow]

Their TOS still says something about cutting off service from continuous video streaming. If they cut you off for watching a few YouTube videos or 30 minutes of Pandora, then I'm out. But I'd like to hear some personal reviews on this issue. ST at $90 for me and the Mrs would save us over $100/mo over Verizon.

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Exactly this, before it was unlimited and now it is just 2.5GB of 4G, but this does not mean they changed their policy of not allowing over certain amount of continuous transfer, like over 100-150MB/day or so, nobody knows. So if you think you can just save your bandwidth and use 1GB in a day to stream bunch of stuff, I don't think that's going to happen with ST. At least they do not deny this will ever happen, they have a very vague TOS.

 

[ctowne]

I used over 220MB yesterday setting up my Nexus 5 and didn't get throttled. Before their redesign I would've been throttled within 10 minutes of using 100MB in a day.


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[heading4tomorrow]

I used over 220MB yesterday setting up my Nexus 5 and didn't get throttled. Before their redesign I would've been throttled within 10 minutes of using 100MB in a day.


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That's great. Please keep us posted.
Whose service are you getting with ST? I would ask you to run a speedtest but I see speedtest is using absurd amount of data to run their tests, that's uncalled for. I've done some tests here and there, it used 591 MB foreground and 37MB background, what the heck!? So basically each test uses approx 20MB of data.
Android OS used 573, that's a little odd too.. I don't see Android OS in your list at all.

 

[Gekko]

I used over 220MB yesterday setting up my Nexus 5 and didn't get throttled. Before their redesign I would've been throttled within 10 minutes of using 100MB in a day.


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http://forums.androidcentral.com/ge...-psa-warning-lte-speedtests-use-lot-data.html

 

[ctowne]

That's great. Please keep us posted.
Whose service are you getting with ST? I would ask you to run a speedtest but I see speedtest is using absurd amount of data to run their tests, that's uncalled for. I've done some tests here and there, it used 591 MB foreground and 37MB background, what the heck!? So basically each test uses approx 20MB of data.
Android OS used 573, that's a little odd too.. I don't see Android OS in your list at all.

I shall. I haven't had a problem with straight talk since probably March.

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[heading4tomorrow]

I shall. I haven't had a problem with straight talk since probably March.

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Do you have any update for us?

 

[ctowne]

Do you have any update for us?

Still works fine... Idk why everyone is so scared of straight talk.

 

[heading4tomorrow]

Still works fine... Idk why everyone is so scared of straight talk.

Probably hassle to keep adding money. Do they offer auto refill? I see they have a yearly pay option but with no solid refund policy that's risky.

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[ctowne]

Probably hassle to keep adding money. Do they offer auto refill? I see they have a yearly pay option but with no solid refund policy that's risky.

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The have auto refill...

 

[Infinite7154]

You can also walk into any Walmart or Rite Aide and buy a $45 refill card. You log into your account online and refill that way. They are never out of stock

 

[TURBOSPARTAN]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the difference between GoPhone and Aio was that with GoPhone... once you reach your data limit you get NO data. On Aio, once you reach the limit, you get throttled. GoPhone has faster LTE (no limitations), but with Aio your max DL speed is around 7mb/s on LTE.

True?

Aio plans: $55 unlimited data, but throttled after 2GB (for the "Aio Smart" plan): Cell Phone Plans and Features | No Contract Cell Phone Plans with Unlimited Data | Aio Wireless

GoPhone plan: $60 for 2GB data, but after that you must buy in additional 1GB increments ($10 per 1GB): Prepaid Cell Phone Plans, GoPhone Plans, & Prepaid Smartphone plans from AT&T

StraightTalk: $45 for 2.5GB data, throttled after that. https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...f0MTByN9XOjHBUB9Cctpw%21%21%2F&token=UqZXVBvL

*30 day Unlimited Plans include 2.5 GB of high speed data per 30 day cycle. After 2.5 GB, your data speed will be reduced for the remainder of the 30 day cycle. High speed data is restored once a new 30 day service plan is redeemed at the end of the 30 day plan cycle. Other limitations, terms and conditions of service apply. Straight Talk reserves the right to terminate your service for unauthorized or abnormal usage. Please refer always to the latest Terms and Conditions of Service at straighttalk.com.