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Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups alt.unix.geeks, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System
Date 2026-10-04 03:53 +0000
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On Sat, 3 Oct 2026 17:23:34 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote:

> Now that both my wife and I have our iPhones on T-Mobile, I wonder what
> is the best cheap virtual carrier that does NOT use T-Mobile airwaves?
> I like to have a spare Android phone to use when the main system is
> down. Although AT&T has the best coverage in town, we left them because
> of poor customer service, and independent of that, a couple of years
> ago, their network in our part of town was down for THREE DAYS.

I had TracFone for years but switched to Mint when I went to 4G. Since 
then Verizon has bought TracFone. Verizon seems to have a number of 
virtual plans but the cheapest I see is $20/mo. Mint is $15/mo with 6 GB 
of data. Not a huge difference. Back when I went with Mint Verizon didn't 
have any similar plans. Today I'd probably go with one of theirs since 
coverage is a little better here.

I'm not sure why Verizon and T-Mobile bought the virtual carriers and kept 
the plans rather than offering a similar deal to start with.

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Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-10-02 06:33 -0700
  Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-02 15:12 +0100
  Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-03 01:52 -0400
    Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-03 20:12 +0000
      Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-10-03 17:23 -0700
        Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-04 03:53 +0000
          Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-04 00:04 -0400
            Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-04 04:19 +0000
          Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-10-04 13:46 -0700
        Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-04 03:36 -0400
      Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-03 23:47 -0400
        Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-04 04:34 +0000
          Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-04 02:14 -0400
            Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-04 19:06 +0000
              Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 01:35 +0100
                Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-05 02:01 +0000
              Re: Micro-Review "ATT Home-Advanced" System The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 09:47 +0100

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