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Best Buy has 3-Month Mint Mobile 10GB 5G / 4G LTE Prepaid SIM Card Kit on sale for $30. Select free curbside pickup where available, otherwise shipping is free on orders of $35 or more.
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I'm a current Mint customer. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
1a. Coverage is on the native T-Mobile network. There's no domestic roaming, not even for voice/texts. I highly, highly recommend testing out the T-Mobile network before purchase.
1b. Mint (and other MVNOs) are on the lower rungs of network priority. That means deprioritization is going to hit you before it hits Metro or T-Mobile's direct customers. Again, test the network if you can.
2. There's no separate bucket for hotspot. If this is a 10GB plan, you get 10GB combined for phone and hotspot use. What that also means is that they don't slow you down on hotspot, at least until your 10GB is all expended. Not sure what happens to hotspot speeds then, but phone data speed is crippled to something like 128k.
3. Mint comes with access to 5G, VVM, voLTE and WiFi calling. Not sure if you can activate eSIM with this plan, but it is an option Mint is now offering for some phones.
4. Customer service is decent imo. If you have a reddit account, they have a pretty active rep and company brass that posts there.
5. No, they don't check IMEI numbers.
6. There is a limit on the duration of phone calls. Search reddit for it, if you're on long calls and don't want to get disconnected in the middle of one.
7. They offer free text and calls from US to Canada and Mexico. What they don't offer is cheap overseas roaming. It's something like $200/GB.
I was told by mint customer service that all physical SIMs sold at best buy are actually partially activated in terms of the 45 days when they are shipped from Mint to the retailer. Could this possibly be why Best Buy seems to run these promotions every 30-45 days, to clean out stock of their products?
Customer service mentioned that if I had problems activating and I was within 45 days of my receipt Mint customer service would take care of it, with proof of purchase.
I held the last one for 35 days, and had no problem activating it.
It's my opinion and just a guess that some type of expiration date clock starts when the SIM is shipped, notice the packaging of the SIM. The barcode numbers of the SIM card are clearly visible through the backside of the packaging.
Last offer was January 25th, 2021 for the 10 GB, but it seems random as to when and which SIM goes on sale. The 4 GB I've seen down to $20-$25.
Can anyone speak to the quality of Mint's service? The savings sounds good, but I've been burned in the past by the unreliability and hassle of dealing with some MVNOs.
With Google voice you need to pay the $3 to Google to port out your number.
Then when you're providing the info to mint your account number is also your Google voice number and your pin is the same pin you setup for your voicemail.
I just activated my plan 6 days ago and that's what i provided and it activated my Google voice number immediately
The poster mentioned that they want to take their current mint number and port out first.
Once when GV is established, you wouldn't want to port the GV number back in, you take whatever mint gives you and perform call forwarding.
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I'm debating whether to do GV trick.
How do I get pin to port # to GV? They don't check IMEI right?
You just perform the activation of the sim completely online - i never seen any questions regarding entering the imei in that process. Don't listen to the prior posters reply.
Do not use the GV number as the account number for mint, or you'd be porting it back in. You could just save the fee and take whatever number GV gives you if your current mint number doesn't have that long of a history.
When I joined Mint a year ago as a port from google Fi, the process was torturous and took a few days. Hours and hours with customer service for both providers. similar experience when porting my wife's number just a few days later. Just FYI.
That's not the question being asked. They are asking about porting into google. There is no porting into mint when using GV.
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I thought Mint checks for IMEI and bans devices to keep using promo offers
I asked them. You get charged the recovery fee if you choose to continue with Mint. $7.75 is the "introductory" recovery fee for the Unlmited Plan, for the renewal after this 3 month plan, it will be 8.50. $5.63 is the "introductory" recovery fee for the smallest 4 GB plan.
Romberto 07:35
Ok great. With the Mint Mobile SIM from best buy for 3 months pre-paid service on Mint, I won't be asked to pay the extra $7.75 recovery fee at any point right?
Darianny 07:36
We charge for recovery fee but Best buy has their price and you would be charged for taxes only, but when you renew keep in mind that we do charge recovery fee.
What's recovery fee? Is it a one time charge fee if you renew this 3 month with them for 1 year? and it's 8.50 for this one? Do they raise that every year.
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I'm debating whether to do GV trick.
How do I get pin to port # to GV? They don't check IMEI right?
What's this GV trick? Is it so that I can keep getting "new member" deals with mint mobile? If so how do you do it please tell us
Can anyone speak to the quality of Mint's service? The savings sounds good, but I've been burned in the past by the unreliability and hassle of dealing with some MVNOs.
Moved my wife's number 1.5 year ago with mine still in att.
Works fine as long as you are in city.
Signal is spotty when compared to att when we travel on the road.
It says our Mint service starts from the time that you activate your plan. Mint Mobile SIM cards can be activated up to 45 days after you receive your SIM.
How does Mint know when I receive the card? Just curious...
They say 45 days from the date we buy but I don't know if it was just my luck, I bought this same plan from bestbuy last October (October 10th to be precise) and activated on 27th December. Had zero issues with activation.
I wish we had some more confirmation on this thinking that Mint is checking IMEI's to block phones that have been on this promo and are trying to go again on another promo deal. Last deal I got was 5 months ago (buy 3 month/get free extra three month). I had no problem coming off of another promo before that with the same IMEI, but its not clear when they supposedly began this IMEI checking.
What would happen if you just registered with your SIM in another phone, and then took the SIM card and swapped it back to the phone with the IMEI you'd already been using on Mint? Doesn't seem possible they could be telling you your SIM isn't usable if moved to a different phone once you're already registered.
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I'm a current Mint customer. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
1a. Coverage is on the native T-Mobile network. There's no domestic roaming, not even for voice/texts. I highly, highly recommend testing out the T-Mobile network before purchase.
1b. Mint (and other MVNOs) are on the lower rungs of network priority. That means deprioritization is going to hit you before it hits Metro or T-Mobile's direct customers. Again, test the network if you can.
2. There's no separate bucket for hotspot. If this is a 10GB plan, you get 10GB combined for phone and hotspot use. What that also means is that they don't slow you down on hotspot, at least until your 10GB is all expended. Not sure what happens to hotspot speeds then, but phone data speed is crippled to something like 128k.
3. Mint comes with access to 5G, VVM, voLTE and WiFi calling. Not sure if you can activate eSIM with this plan, but it is an option Mint is now offering for some phones.
4. Customer service is decent imo. If you have a reddit account, they have a pretty active rep and company brass that posts there.
5. No, they don't check IMEI numbers.
6. There is a limit on the duration of phone calls. Search reddit for it, if you're on long calls and don't want to get disconnected in the middle of one.
7. They offer free text and calls from US to Canada and Mexico. What they don't offer is cheap overseas roaming. It's something like $200/GB.
I wish we had some more confirmation on this thinking that Mint is checking IMEI's to block phones that have been on this promo and are trying to go again on another promo deal. Last deal I got was 5 months ago (buy 3 month/get free extra three month). I had no problem coming off of another promo before that with the same IMEI, but its not clear when they supposedly began this IMEI checking.
What would happen if you just registered with your SIM in another phone, and then took the SIM card and swapped it back to the phone with the IMEI you'd already been using on Mint? Doesn't seem possible they could be telling you your SIM isn't usable if moved to a different phone once you're already registered.
Can anyone speak to the quality of Mint's service? The savings sounds good, but I've been burned in the past by the unreliability and hassle of dealing with some MVNOs.
If you have good t-mobile signal by you you should be great (no roaming on most nvmo's). I'm on my 2nd year and 2nd phone, no service issues or setup issues. Formerly on Tmobile prepaid, speeds and native coverage are the same imo.
Does any one have experience with hotspot on Mint ? Also what kind of speeds do we expect considering it's a MVNO ?
This depends on T-Mobile coverage in your area. I had T-mobile and Mint and the signal was horrible inside my work office. I would constantly get missed calls or bad connections.
I switched to ATT and have much better signal now at work on my iPhone XS.
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I'm a current Mint customer. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
1a. Coverage is on the native T-Mobile network. There's no domestic roaming, not even for voice/texts. I highly, highly recommend testing out the T-Mobile network before purchase.
1b. Mint (and other MVNOs) are on the lower rungs of network priority. That means deprioritization is going to hit you before it hits Metro or T-Mobile's direct customers. Again, test the network if you can.
2. There's no separate bucket for hotspot. If this is a 10GB plan, you get 10GB combined for phone and hotspot use. What that also means is that they don't slow you down on hotspot, at least until your 10GB is all expended. Not sure what happens to hotspot speeds then, but phone data speed is crippled to something like 128k.
3. Mint comes with access to 5G, VVM, voLTE and WiFi calling. Not sure if you can activate eSIM with this plan, but it is an option Mint is now offering for some phones.
4. Customer service is decent imo. If you have a reddit account, they have a pretty active rep and company brass that posts there.
5. No, they don't check IMEI numbers.
6. There is a limit on the duration of phone calls. Search reddit for it, if you're on long calls and don't want to get disconnected in the middle of one.
7. They offer free text and calls from US to Canada and Mexico. What they don't offer is cheap overseas roaming. It's something like $200/GB.
Thanks for that, I live in Vegas and it's t mobile towers here, a lot of people here say mint mobile is decent, I think I will just switch without testing, if it's not good I can always port my number back to t mobile prepaid right?
No roaming? that means if I go to another state/city, I can't even call/text?!?!? Or it's when I go somewhere that there is no t-mobile tower then I can't call/text nothing?!?! thanks for that, that's a big tthing to consider, I read many reddits and none mentioned that.
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1a. Coverage is on the native T-Mobile network. There's no domestic roaming, not even for voice/texts. I highly, highly recommend testing out the T-Mobile network before purchase.
1b. Mint (and other MVNOs) are on the lower rungs of network priority. That means deprioritization is going to hit you before it hits Metro or T-Mobile's direct customers. Again, test the network if you can.
2. There's no separate bucket for hotspot. If this is a 10GB plan, you get 10GB combined for phone and hotspot use. What that also means is that they don't slow you down on hotspot, at least until your 10GB is all expended. Not sure what happens to hotspot speeds then, but phone data speed is crippled to something like 128k.
3. Mint comes with access to 5G, VVM, voLTE and WiFi calling. Not sure if you can activate eSIM with this plan, but it is an option Mint is now offering for some phones.
4. Customer service is decent imo. If you have a reddit account, they have a pretty active rep and company brass that posts there.
5. No, they don't check IMEI numbers.
6. There is a limit on the duration of phone calls. Search reddit for it, if you're on long calls and don't want to get disconnected in the middle of one.
7. They offer free text and calls from US to Canada and Mexico. What they don't offer is cheap overseas roaming. It's something like $200/GB.
Customer service mentioned that if I had problems activating and I was within 45 days of my receipt Mint customer service would take care of it, with proof of purchase.
I held the last one for 35 days, and had no problem activating it.
It's my opinion and just a guess that some type of expiration date clock starts when the SIM is shipped, notice the packaging of the SIM. The barcode numbers of the SIM card are clearly visible through the backside of the packaging.
Last offer was January 25th, 2021 for the 10 GB, but it seems random as to when and which SIM goes on sale. The 4 GB I've seen down to $20-$25.
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Then when you're providing the info to mint your account number is also your Google voice number and your pin is the same pin you setup for your voicemail.
I just activated my plan 6 days ago and that's what i provided and it activated my Google voice number immediately
Once when GV is established, you wouldn't want to port the GV number back in, you take whatever mint gives you and perform call forwarding.
How do I get pin to port # to GV? They don't check IMEI right?
Do not use the GV number as the account number for mint, or you'd be porting it back in. You could just save the fee and take whatever number GV gives you if your current mint number doesn't have that long of a history.
Romberto 07:35
Ok great. With the Mint Mobile SIM from best buy for 3 months pre-paid service on Mint, I won't be asked to pay the extra $7.75 recovery fee at any point right?
Darianny 07:36
We charge for recovery fee but Best buy has their price and you would be charged for taxes only, but when you renew keep in mind that we do charge recovery fee.
How do I get pin to port # to GV? They don't check IMEI right?
Works fine as long as you are in city.
Signal is spotty when compared to att when we travel on the road.
You keep mentioning, but no facts....
You keep mentioning, but no facts....
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How does Mint know when I receive the card? Just curious...
What would happen if you just registered with your SIM in another phone, and then took the SIM card and swapped it back to the phone with the IMEI you'd already been using on Mint? Doesn't seem possible they could be telling you your SIM isn't usable if moved to a different phone once you're already registered.
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1a. Coverage is on the native T-Mobile network. There's no domestic roaming, not even for voice/texts. I highly, highly recommend testing out the T-Mobile network before purchase.
1b. Mint (and other MVNOs) are on the lower rungs of network priority. That means deprioritization is going to hit you before it hits Metro or T-Mobile's direct customers. Again, test the network if you can.
2. There's no separate bucket for hotspot. If this is a 10GB plan, you get 10GB combined for phone and hotspot use. What that also means is that they don't slow you down on hotspot, at least until your 10GB is all expended. Not sure what happens to hotspot speeds then, but phone data speed is crippled to something like 128k.
3. Mint comes with access to 5G, VVM, voLTE and WiFi calling. Not sure if you can activate eSIM with this plan, but it is an option Mint is now offering for some phones.
4. Customer service is decent imo. If you have a reddit account, they have a pretty active rep and company brass that posts there.
5. No, they don't check IMEI numbers.
6. There is a limit on the duration of phone calls. Search reddit for it, if you're on long calls and don't want to get disconnected in the middle of one.
7. They offer free text and calls from US to Canada and Mexico. What they don't offer is cheap overseas roaming. It's something like $200/GB.
What would happen if you just registered with your SIM in another phone, and then took the SIM card and swapped it back to the phone with the IMEI you'd already been using on Mint? Doesn't seem possible they could be telling you your SIM isn't usable if moved to a different phone once you're already registered.
I ran 2 speed tests in WNY,
4g - 40 mbps
5g - 210 mbps
I switched to ATT and have much better signal now at work on my iPhone XS.
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1a. Coverage is on the native T-Mobile network. There's no domestic roaming, not even for voice/texts. I highly, highly recommend testing out the T-Mobile network before purchase.
1b. Mint (and other MVNOs) are on the lower rungs of network priority. That means deprioritization is going to hit you before it hits Metro or T-Mobile's direct customers. Again, test the network if you can.
2. There's no separate bucket for hotspot. If this is a 10GB plan, you get 10GB combined for phone and hotspot use. What that also means is that they don't slow you down on hotspot, at least until your 10GB is all expended. Not sure what happens to hotspot speeds then, but phone data speed is crippled to something like 128k.
3. Mint comes with access to 5G, VVM, voLTE and WiFi calling. Not sure if you can activate eSIM with this plan, but it is an option Mint is now offering for some phones.
4. Customer service is decent imo. If you have a reddit account, they have a pretty active rep and company brass that posts there.
5. No, they don't check IMEI numbers.
6. There is a limit on the duration of phone calls. Search reddit for it, if you're on long calls and don't want to get disconnected in the middle of one.
7. They offer free text and calls from US to Canada and Mexico. What they don't offer is cheap overseas roaming. It's something like $200/GB.
No roaming? that means if I go to another state/city, I can't even call/text?!?!? Or it's when I go somewhere that there is no t-mobile tower then I can't call/text nothing?!?! thanks for that, that's a big tthing to consider, I read many reddits and none mentioned that.
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