For anyone who has tried switching over, what’s your experience with them been like? Were there any hidden upsides or downsides you weren’t expecting? What about coverage? It’s really hard to ignore them when they keep spamming ads to YouTube, my favorite podcasts, etc.
Pretty sure they just got bought out by T-Mobile, a company that has had multiple massive data breaches in the past year or so. It’s just cheap T-mobile 5g. I liked it when I had it, but wouldn’t go back.
Came here to post this, Mint just got purchased by T-Mobile.
What do you use now?
For a moment there I thought Linux mint had released on mobile. Something Ubuntu failed to do 😅
I got real excited for a second. Why must they tease us so
I was with Mint in Tennessee for several years with no issues. I moved to the boonies where T-Mobile has no service, which is the only reason I’m not still with Mint.
Ive been using them for a few years. Some stuff to note: you have to pay in at least 3 month blocks. You cannot pay for a month at a time. The prices on the website are just for your first term. After that it is a little more expensive, but not too much. Coverage wise it’s t-mobile’s network, so its good in major cities, but spotty in rural areas.
Ive been mostly pleased with them. When the wife and I go on trips, sometimes my phone gets no service, but she’s on AT&T, so her phone usually works fine, and she’ll turn on hotspot so i can get my messages.
I’ve been with Mint for years and I absolutely love it. $200/yr (taxes) and I have 5gb/month and great coverage.
Orlando, FL
I switched fairly recently. I was on Ting before, and they appear to be quietly sunsetting that service after Dish Network bought them a few years back. Hoping the same doesn’t happen to Mint. It’s been great so far. Incredible value!
I switched over a few months ago. It works great! Not having to worry about the bill is very nice.
I have been very happy with Mint in the USA but as I note in a reply thread below, it is useless for international travel. Use an ESIM app instead. On my latest trip to Europe it worked for about 5 minutes upon landing and then I got kicked off the network and it never worked again. Simultaneously, my login in the Mint app was invalidated… and I cannot login now via any channel. I use a password manager so it is not user error. I’m back home now but the login issue persists and I have a ticket open for it. I can get only get into my account if I follow this path:
- go to mintmobile.com and hit login
- click send password
- receive one-time verification code by SMS and enter that
- when prompted I enter my one-password from my Authenticator
- when prompted I pick a new password and press enter
Once I do that I drop into my account, authenticated. If I log out again, the new credentials never work.
I have to wonder if I tripped some sort of fraud control in Europe.
I tried it for a week and at least in my city it was pretty much unusable. Service is prioritized below T-Mobile proper, so it can be super slow if your area has a lot of T-Mobile users.
This was my experience as well. I could barely maintain a lasting connection using mobile data. Especially bad during commutes when everyone on the road with me was connecting to towers with priority over mine. The price was amazing though and the online service/support was great.
Maybe you need to change your access point to mint’s? I drove from Oregon to Michigan and and the only bad spot was in areas that just flat out didn’t have any service. It was spotty at first but I found that I needed to change the AP in my network settings.
All the MVNO are deprioritized, Verizon’s policies are the worst of the big 3. T-Mobile’s policy allows for much more traffic so it’s not nearly as noticable. AT&T MVNOs have almost no difference between themselves and proper AT&T monthly service.
I’m still trying to figure out how to get my phone to let me add an APN my P6P doesn’t do anything when I hit save even after taking out my Tmo SIM and rebooting. Maybe still a daemon on there locking that and ill have to reset the phone.
I’ve had nothing but a positive experience with them! Customer support has been great the one time I needed it, and traveling around the country I’ve never had an issue with my signal.
I really hope T-Mobile doesn’t screw things up!
I’m on a large T mobile family plan and was able to stack on insider as well as free line bonus. Ends up being around same price as Mint’s unlimited tier, but with much better international roaming and in-flight wifi for half of the domestic us airlines. That’s another option if you’re interested in that.
Same experience as others, it was the cheapest option for me at the time for data after several other carriers folded. I live in an urban area and have had no issues. Currently dreading what bullshit T-Mobile will inevitably pull
It’s been great for me and my family. But we live in a major metro with good TMobile coverage, ymmv. Definitely a great price for 4 lines, I can control all the plans and pre-paid billing for each line from the app, and the hotspot works great. If the coverage is good in your area, the price can’t be beat.
I use US Mobile, who resell T-Mobile and Verizon services. My family use very little data, so we only prepay for 1GB/mo. Four lines are $40 a month total.
I’m also on US Mobile, they’ve been great so far. Easy to get support and they’re prices are the best I’ve found.
Thirding US Mobile. I pay so little each month and the one issue I had, they fixed it, refunded me, and have me a 6 month discount. Top notch experience so far.
Third rec here for US Mobile. I actually switched from Mint after a couple of years with them (and Google Fi before that). Three of my family members are on the Verizon network through US Mobile, and one is on the T-Mobile network. Nice to have the split when we’re traveling because one of the two networks always has coverage.
I use it all over the western half of the USA. I’d say maybe 10-15 percent of locations where I have signal the actual speeds are abysmal. I think due to the mvno data being deprioritized but I can’t say for sure. I still keep them because it’s cheap but it can get annoying
