Exactly one month ago, we decided to switch from T-Mobile to mint, mobile,
to save hundreds of dollars every single year on our cellular bill.
How was that?
First month T and N.
Hey everyone.
I'm James Montemagno.
And I'm back with another video this time talking about my recent
change from T-Mobile to mint mobile for my cellular provider.
Now I've gone through a long sort of change pattern of mobile providers.
I actually was on Verizon first and serosa sort of, Verizon's always been that.
Trusted and trued, um, carrier here in the states, at least where
you can get coverage everywhere.
But as always the most, I had them all the way up until well, until Google announced
Google fi actually that was the first time I moved away from Verizon, which
was costing me quite a lot of money.
I know there's about a hundred, some odd dollars a month or so.
But I decided to change to Google fi and I did that because I really enjoyed the
opportunities I could get international data included inside of my mobile bill.
And also it was pretty cheap.
I think I was paying 60 bucks a month or so, and I could add on different data.
That was pretty cool because that hopped between at and T
and also sprint at the time.
And then internationally changed around.
Now, uh, before we got married, my wife and I decided to merge our
different set of their accounts.
She was still on Verizon and I was on Google fi and she had an iPhone, so she
could move to Google fi at the time.
And now I have an iPhone, so I probably wouldn't want to move to
Google five anymore anyways, but we decided to make the move to T-Mobile.
T-Mobile offer the best plan at the time for us as about $120 a
month included Netflix and included like the T-Mobile Tuesdays.
And it also provided whatever their international service was.
Wasn't quite as good as Google fi as far as international date ago.
But we were like, Hey, let's just jump all in on it now.
We decided one month ago, kind of two months ago, we plan this that,
you know, we're probably not going to be doing a lot of international
travel, more domestic travel.
And also we're spending over a thousand dollars a year.
That's right.
Like almost like 13, $1,400 a year on our mobile plan.
I logged into my team mobile account and I was only using a few gigs of data because
I work from home and I'm always at home and I'm always using the wifi or I use
hundreds upon hundreds of gigs of data.
So when I decided to flip over to the.
Mint mobile website because Ryan Reynolds suggested it to me because
he's a co-owner of manta mobile.
I got really intrigued.
Why?
Well, because they have a $15 a month plan, which gives you
four gigs of 5g and 4g LTE data.
Now, from my understanding is once you run out of that four gig, it just drops
down to a lower tier of provided internet service or so, or cellular service.
Um, so for me, We're already using just a few gigs.
So we said, why not just go ahead and give this a go and see if we'll be able
to kind of use that limited amount.
The nice part here is that we could always bump it up to 20, 25 and 30.
Now as Ryan Reynolds says, we're going to start letting unlimited users going.
Sadly how much data they've been using before they, so your monthly usage,
it safely fits within our 12 gigabyte eight gigabyte in three gigabyte plant.
We'll recommend that you switch so you can pay less.
Which I think is a really cool part of mint mobile.
And I kind of like what Ryan Reynolds is going for here and in mobile in general.
Now, one thing to note here that this is a $45 a month for the first three months.
And to keep that $15 a month, you do need to pre-purchase a full year.
So that is $180 per phone, which that would be your tire bill for
entire year, which is kind of great.
You can always buy more data, bring your own phone, buy a new
phone, whatever you want to do.
Now I have an iPhone S E.
Second generation.
And my wife has an iPhone 11 pro.
So of course those phones came over just fine.
And it took literally no time at all to get the swim swap.
Oh, SIM card swap over and also port our numbers.
It literally took five minutes on their website.
It was so easy to do.
Additionally, I reached out to some people online who gave me their affiliate link
and I got $15 credit towards mint mobile.
So if you're interested in joining mint, mobile at all, or giving
it a try, it's really easy to do.
I'm going to put my affiliate link down at the bottom.
You get $15.
I get $15.
It's a win-win for everybody.
But what I want to do is actually talk about my first.
Month.
And the first thing to really note is how did it work out with the data?
Well, let's boot up the mint mobile application right here, and what's
really nice is this application is great.
Um, I really, really like it.
And here we go.
Now I do have literally eight hours left in the day as I'm recording this.
But as you can see, I have 2.6 gigs of data remaining.
I'm sorry.
2.6 gigs remaining.
I only use 1.4 gigs.
Of data, that's it for the entire month.
Now, if I go over and I view, let's say my wife's account over here
and my mint family, here we go.
Tap on that, go to her data usage.
We can see that she only used 2.8.
Gigs of data for the entire month.
So 1.2 gigs is all she used, and historically she's always used
less than me, which is really cool.
Now this is nice because you can add as many family accounts
as you desire onto your plan.
So actually every single person has a different account,
but there's one main holder.
So I can add on more people and more friends and more
family members as I desire.
Inside of here.
I can also top up by more data by international data and pay my bill.
But as you can see here, if I look right now, my three month plan with
four gigabytes ends in two months, and my renewal on August 1st will be $180
minus that $15 credit that you can get yourself by using my affiliate code below.
So you want to tune that on now, like I said, That I've been using this.
And I will say so far overall, everything has been pretty great.
Um, we took many trips during this time.
We also, um, obviously go out, we have beers out on occasion, you know,
get some wine, go grocery shopping.
Um, I'm doing normal cell.
Stuff.
If that makes sense.
Uh, in general, I'm not doing anything crazy.
Uh, I will say that I do like that Mitt mobile provides, um, wifi calling
because sometimes inside of the house we get, you know, not the greatest.
Cellular reception.
And of course I didn't on T-Mobile and Mitt mobile runs on top of T-Mobile.
So I already knew the coverage I was going to get, and that coverage hasn't changed.
It's T-Mobile, which is not the best.
Um, Verizon has always been the greatest coverage in my opinion, that I've seen.
However, I've never really been in a situation, which I didn't plan
for not having cellular service.
Which I'll talk about in a second.
And then of course, just literally using it day to day, no issues at all.
When I leave my house, go grocery shopping, drive around GPS, Google
maps, apple maps, all that stuff.
Totally fine.
So.
I already knew what my sort of cellular life with mint mobile is going to be
based on the last few years with T-Mobile.
Now I will say this.
I recently went on a little trip with my wife out to west for Oregon.
Now west for Oregon is quite pretty much out in the middle of nowhere.
It's down over here under Eugene, under Salem under here, we zoom in, it's a
little tiny place here with an absolutely beautiful waterfalls and all sorts
of great mountain bike, hiking trail trails, and hiking and all that stuff.
Now that being said, there is literally no reception anywhere in here.
I asked some locals and they said pretty much only Verizon
at and T and nothing else works.
Now, that being said, we did plan for this.
And we did a bunch of offline maps, wifi IMS, which all worked at our hotel.
So that was really cool that it just all worked as I sort of plan.
And if you have wifi, you can make calls, you can do a message.
You can check your email, everything that you would desire.
Like I said, we only.
Tapped in and use less than 50% of our data, which means four
gigs is plenty enough for us.
However, I do want to say that I did make some changes inside of my iPhone.
Over here.
What's nice is that you can change a lot of these settings
to use cellular data or not.
So, one thing that I did ahead of time was on my iPhone.
I automatically adjusted some of the apps to not be able to use cellular so
you can see most of them are on, but as I scroll down a little bit further, I
will actually note that Google photos.
I turned that off.
Whew.
The news app.
My podcast, application YouTube and YouTube music.
So that was one thing I did just so I didn't accidentally start streaming
tons of YouTube, um, on my walk.
So I download some shows offline.
Um, I also.
Uh, do all my podcasts offline before I leave the house.
Um, this is something that I was pretty much doing already.
Most of the players and Netflix will download shows automatically for you.
However, I just sort of went into the iPhone and made sure
that I turned it all off.
But I got to say overall, I'm very pleased with the mint mobile service.
I reached out to them a few times when I was porting over the, the
numbers and doing all the SIM card, they were super responsive.
The application is fantastic.
It's really, really simple gets you in and out the data that you need to know.
And then of course the service is exactly as I expected.
There's no difference between my T-Mobile service.
And my mint and mobile service.
Now I didn't task, obviously going past that for gigs and what that looks like.
My assumption is that it's awesome and still great, but probably slower.
I got to say, the other thing I did is inside of my security monitor
applications, I also made it.
So when I stream.
Uh, audio or video recordings from my security cameras that the
resolution and stream rate is lower.
And I just did that because I do get sometimes two bars, three bars, and I
also want to save a little bit on data.
So it makes me think a little bit more about the data, but honestly, in the
full 30 days, it's been very negligible.
My, my actual interactions with having to think about the data.
I turned off sailor on a few of them ahead of time, and sure enough.
I was kind of good to go.
Well, there you have it.
I am very impressed with mint mobile.
I of course be auto renewing my full year.
And of course, if you want to check out mint mobile and give it a go, um,
they have a full, like seven day trial.
You can do all the things.
You can test everything out.
If you're already on T-Mobile, it might be a good opportunity to switch.
And of course you can, uh, sign up for any of the plans and they'll
recommend a lower tier plan as well.
If you don't use as much data as you think you're going to use.
I'll put my ref link down in the bottom.
You'll get $15 towards you, bill and mint mobile when you sign up.
And of course I'll even get a perk, which is $15 for telling you
about my experience with mobile.
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I'm over here in the Pacific Northwest, where I'm often going into mountains, the
desert, or just traveling around town.
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