straight talk

[YourMobileGuru]

Threads like this make me glad I skipped Straight Talk and picked Solavei as my T-Mobile MVNO.


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Its rather naive to think that the other MVO providers won't eventually do the same thing. Straight Talk is one of the biggies and the one tech blogs like AC promote so they were the first but they won't be the last.

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[runtmms]

Its rather naive to think that the other MVO providers won't eventually do the same thing. Straight Talk is one of the biggies and the one tech blogs like AC promote so they were the first but they won't be the last.

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The beauty about prepaid is I can always switch if the service degrades. It would be silly to not take advantage of the best deal (for me) right now just because it might change at some point.

One way where Solavei differs from Straight Talk is a clearly defined data plan - which is something Straight Talk never offered. Only time will tell if Solavei's agreement with T-Mobile supports it long term.

Sent from my Nexus 4 on Solavei

 

[Ryuuie]

There is a specific reason this is happening right now. It's not some magical conspiracy theory that it'll happen to every single MVNO. This is a problem between AT&T and TracFone (Walmart might also be involved as well since they own half of Straight Talk).

Red Pocket, Solavei and other GSM and CDMA MVNOs are 100% fine. All of the problems are on Straight Talk.

Straight Talk is the only AT&T MVNO that advertises 100% unlimited data, no one else does. This alone should say something to you that AT&T is not happy.

 

[adjr31]

There seems to be a common thread here. GSM thru AT&T and throttling. Has anyone using one of straight talk's CDMA carriers (Verizon or Sprint) ever experienced throttling or, worse yet, expulsion from straight talk.

Here's why I ask. Straight Talk now has the GS3 running on Sprint's CDMA/LTE networks. $440 is a lot to drop on a phone only to kicked out of a network. I'm probably the only person in the country who's work place only has sprint service inside the building, and very good service at that (currently getting -35 dbm and speed tests of 700 to 800 kbps consistently on 3g). I've bee using Virgin mobile (who is also getting the GS3 in June) but Virgin has a 2.5 GB limit before they throttle you to 256k. I can live with this , and have, but would perfer truly unlimited data at LTE speeds. I've used as much as 3.5gb in a month before.