Should You Dump Your Wireless Carrier for Google's Project Fi?
Project Fi is cheaper -- for some
The best thing about Google's wireless service is its billing policy. It's extremely straightforward and easy to understand, and for many consumers, it may result in dramatically lower monthly wireless bills.
Project Fi starts at $20 per month. That includes unlimited calls and text messages to more than 120 countries and the ability to tether the phone's data connection to a laptop or tablet (a service some other carriers charge extra for). It also supports Wi-Fi calling, so customers can use a Wi-Fi connection to make a call if they're in a spot with bad signal.
Then there's the data component. Each gigabyte of data costs a flat $10 per month. When they sign up, Project Fi customers can pick a plan they think best suits their needs -- say, 3GB per month -- but it's more for budgeting purposes than anything else. If a customer goes over their allotted data, they're still charged the base rate. Even better, if they don't use all their data, they'll get a refund for the difference.
This stands in sharp contrast to other carriers, which often encourage consumers to sign up for excessively large data allotments by charging absurd overage fees or offering oddly structured data tiers. Both T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS ) and AT&T (NYSE: T ) offer some data "rollover," but for the most part, consumers are often stuck paying for data that they don't use.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/05...ogles.aspx
....a little "shake'n bake" to see how things fit
Project Fi is cheaper -- for some
The best thing about Google's wireless service is its billing policy. It's extremely straightforward and easy to understand, and for many consumers, it may result in dramatically lower monthly wireless bills.
Project Fi starts at $20 per month. That includes unlimited calls and text messages to more than 120 countries and the ability to tether the phone's data connection to a laptop or tablet (a service some other carriers charge extra for). It also supports Wi-Fi calling, so customers can use a Wi-Fi connection to make a call if they're in a spot with bad signal.
Then there's the data component. Each gigabyte of data costs a flat $10 per month. When they sign up, Project Fi customers can pick a plan they think best suits their needs -- say, 3GB per month -- but it's more for budgeting purposes than anything else. If a customer goes over their allotted data, they're still charged the base rate. Even better, if they don't use all their data, they'll get a refund for the difference.
This stands in sharp contrast to other carriers, which often encourage consumers to sign up for excessively large data allotments by charging absurd overage fees or offering oddly structured data tiers. Both T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS ) and AT&T (NYSE: T ) offer some data "rollover," but for the most part, consumers are often stuck paying for data that they don't use.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/05...ogles.aspx
....a little "shake'n bake" to see how things fit
