PHeller wrote: Nexus 5 will be my next phone. Maybe even X-mas present to myself. Can I use that on Net10 or T-Mobile?
yes, yes you can... I've been thinking about selling my note2 to buy the nexus5... the nexus phones are an amazing deal... can also take it though most of the rest of the world and it will work as well with a prepaid SIM
curtis73 wrote: I think I'll go with the Net10 if I can. Being on Verizon right now, I probably have a locked phone and I've had spotty luck with companies releasing their hardware. Right now we're paying $191 with Verizon for two phones unlimited. Net10 would do the same thing (on AT&T's network) for $85 plus a $6 sim card.
the one tidbit most "Mobile Virtual Network operator" (MVNO aka companies that rent network space from the big 4) is that they tend to not have rights to the roaming network, while testing the waters of tmobile in our area I went with prepaid tmobile ($30 5gig data @ 4g, then unlimited throttled down to about 256k speed, 100 min talk, unlimited text) and I set my wife up on a MVNO that used tmobile towers ($50 unlimited everything type plan as she talked a lot more)... while out in the boonies she wouldn't have a connection and I would, tmobile (and same with all the other big guys) are partnered with smaller regional companies to barrow signal... so my real tmobile prepaid had much better coverage than the company that "used the tmobile network"
once again I'll say to ask your local friends who they are using and how they like the coverage... Tmobile wasn't even on my radar until I asked a friend and they raved about them...
also some companies change what network they use based on what sort of phone they are selling, as I recall net10 android phones use Spring but the non feature phones are GSM so either att or tmobile, the companies that sell you just a SIM are going to be either ATT or Tmobile but I know for some of them you could choose which one it was but it wasn't always obvious... once you figure out what network the type of phone you want uses I highly recommend buying a cheap phone and trying the service out it's easy to get cough up in saving a bunch of $$$ and then transferring your number to the new company only to find out the coverage sucks for where you need to use it... my dad and step mom went to one of the flat rate MVNO and had a ton of problems... they ended up going back to verizon... lack of planning and research :-/
and lastly... some of the cheaper MVNO claim "unlimited data" but there are plenty of stories about people getting cut off at a certian point and it's never clear cut as to what the arbitrary limit is... 1 gig? 2.5gig?
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