SIMple Mobile

[Kahroo]

I buy the cards and I have to pay tax on the cards. So I just redeem it and yeah it's full $25 with the tax paid. When I go to top up it says I will have to pay $25 + tax but I really just have to pay is $25 since I already paid for the tax

 

[curtis1973]

You miss understand...
On VM you pay sales tax only. On some others you have the Universal Access fee, and a bunch of other taxes and such piled on.


Even just under $50, it's still about 40% more than VM costs at $35 and double the $25 plan.

on vm when buying top up from any of their "trusted" providers like convince stores etc you pay a store fee,tax at the register,then vm tries to tax it upon top up apply,then theres the 911 fee. so fees are with all of them and vm wont do anything about the double tax issue which is illegal actually. they brush it off as a mistake. ive reported it to the fcc and irs. as for straight talk throttling,well ive messed around with their optimus variant and it worked as good as vm's. and vm is throttling now also so i dont see a negative against straight talk there. these other companies i cant comment on

 

[magiccheeto]

When I pay my bill on Straight Talk, I hop, skip and jump into my local Wally world and grab a $45 card. The grand total always comes to 48.94 and I would happily pay that instead of the 59.81 I would pay on VirginMobile just to get dial up speeds because of a crowded network here on Sprint. I have to say that HSPA on StraightTalk is a refreshing change, pulling 4Mbps down and 1Mbps up.

 

[droidmyme]

When I pay my bill on Straight Talk, I hop, skip and jump into my local Wally world and grab a $45 card. The grand total always comes to 48.94 and I would happily pay that instead of the 59.81 I would pay on VirginMobile just to get dial up speeds because of a crowded network here on Sprint. I have to say that HSPA on StraightTalk is a refreshing change, pulling 4Mbps down and 1Mbps up.

Thats cool man. Tell me (or us), have you experienced any data throttles on StraightTalk? I think that may be the other issue that people have concerns about.

Thank you!

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[magiccheeto]

So far, I have never used more than a little under 200mb in a day. I'm not much of a music streamer because I own all the music I listen to and have it on my SD card. StraightTalk's data limits work in my favor as I use just under 2gb a month and don't need to tether anymore like I used to. I'd say the most I do is watch a few yt videos on 3g. We shall see if ST will continue being lax with the data limits as I continue with my service. I've since given my Optimus V to my mother and she quite enjoys having her email accounts and Google calendar with her on the go. Set her up with a fast harmonia 2.06 install for some gb goodness.

 

[droidmyme]

So far, I have never used more than a little under 200mb in a day. I'm not much of a music streamer because I own all the music I listen to and have it on my SD card. StraightTalk's data limits work in my favor as I use just under 2gb a month and don't need to tether anymore like I used to. I'd say the most I do is watch a few yt videos on 3g. We shall see if ST will continue being lax with the data limits as I continue with my service. I've since given my Optimus V to my mother and she quite enjoys having her email accounts and Google calendar with her on the go. Set her up with a fast harmonia 2.06 install for some gb goodness.

Makes sense! Thanks!

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[LeslieAnn]

So far, I have never used more than a little under 200mb in a day. I'm not much of a music streamer because I own all the music I listen to and have it on my SD card. StraightTalk's data limits work in my favor as I use just under 2gb a month and don't need to tether anymore like I used to. I'd say the most I do is watch a few yt videos on 3g. We shall see if ST will continue being lax with the data limits as I continue with my service.

You may want to have a read in this thread before you continue your 200megs a day habit.

Does ST really cancel your service for overuse of data??

And yes, they don't just disable data, they shut off your service entirely. Due to lag, by the time you get the warning, you may have already exceeded the 100meg advanced warning that you are approaching the limit.

 

[magiccheeto]

Yeah, I actually decided to read a bunch of threads about that before I even turned Mobile Data on. I try to keep it daily around 100MB, which isn't that hard. The one day of 200MB was the fault of the Google play store updating over HSPA. Removing that from the equation would make that days use around 70MB. Luckily, I don't have the need to tether like I did a year ago, so this slightly agitating data limit really won't hurt me. At this moment in time, unlimited minutes is more important for than data.

 

[LeslieAnn]

I used 700 megs total last month, but my use pattern would get me thrown off Straight Talk.

I use my phone as internet at customers houses where they have dial up mad: how can you even have internet on dial up these days!). Just updating an anti-virus can mean 70megs, then you have everything else, so 300megs can go out the window in an hour or two, on those months I might hit 1.5gigs, but normally I'm under 1gig.