This is REGULAR price. It may be cheap, but it's not a DEAL.
On T-Mobile network.
expiredhappy108 posted Dec 20, 2021 09:29 PM
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expiredhappy108 posted Dec 20, 2021 09:29 PM
RedPocket 200 talk/1000 texts 2.50/mo plan ($30/yr) at ebay.. great for second number in a dual sim setup for texting/calling occasionally
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Total tax: $0.64
Federal universal service fee: $0.57
Federal cost recovery charge: $0.07
Total charge: 60.64
Total tax: $0.64
Federal universal service fee: $0.57
Federal cost recovery charge: $0.07
Total charge: 60.64
eBay Basic Plan (Annual) $60.00
Regulatory Recovery Fee $12.00
Total Price : $75.16
Taxable amount:$72.00
Total tax: $3.16
$0.56 Federal Universal Service Fund
$0.04 Federal Telecommunications Relay Services Fund (Non-IPCTS)
$0.05 Federal Telecommunications Relay Services Fund (IPCTS)
$0.39 State Sales Tax
$0.26 State Excise Tax
$0.44 County Sales Tax
$0.12 Local Gross Receipts Tax
$0.03 Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District Sales Tax
$0.07 Surcharge on Excise Tax
$1.20 Prepaid Wireless 911 Surcharge
eBay Basic Plan (Annual) $60.00
Regulatory Recovery Fee $12.00
Total Price : $75.16
Taxable amount:$72.00
Total tax: $3.16
$0.56 Federal Universal Service Fund
$0.04 Federal Telecommunications Relay Services Fund (Non-IPCTS)
$0.05 Federal Telecommunications Relay Services Fund (IPCTS)
$0.39 State Sales Tax
$0.26 State Excise Tax
$0.44 County Sales Tax
$0.12 Local Gross Receipts Tax
$0.03 Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District Sales Tax
$0.07 Surcharge on Excise Tax
$1.20 Prepaid Wireless 911 Surcharge
I assume all those extra charges were from redpocket website over ebay.
eBay Basic Plan (Annual) $60.00
Regulatory Recovery Fee $12.00
Total Price : $75.16
Taxable amount:$72.00
Total tax: $3.16
$0.56 Federal Universal Service Fund
$0.04 Federal Telecommunications Relay Services Fund (Non-IPCTS)
$0.05 Federal Telecommunications Relay Services Fund (IPCTS)
$0.39 State Sales Tax
$0.26 State Excise Tax
$0.44 County Sales Tax
$0.12 Local Gross Receipts Tax
$0.03 Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District Sales Tax
$0.07 Surcharge on Excise Tax
$1.20 Prepaid Wireless 911 Surcharge
I assume all those extra charges were from redpocket website over ebay.
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2) signal strength/call quality in America's outback?
3) Option to add data as needed?
4) download speeds?
They use T-Mobile network, so it depends on where you are. In my city, T-Mobile coverage is good, so are signal strengths!
Their speeds are good too.
Option to add data is available via their website as well as mobile app (called MyMobileAccount). With 100% wfh, I don't need a lot of mobile data. But, I do purchase data when I'm traveling.
Hello Mobile may not be the best for everyone, but works for my use cases really well. Importantly, most of the time, their customer service is of mediocre quality!
I also have a FreeUp mobile plan that's absolutely free to use every month (500 units FREE per month for talk & text). Looks like this plan isn't available anymore.
I hate paying hefty charges to the big telco providers, as I don't find any value with their services!
Used to be OK-ish for the $60 yr plan for low use and practically no data. Any more and you will live to regret it.
'Oh what a deal' soon turns sour real fast; once you have any kind of a problem. And now they are causing many problems to have to call them. The help is a hit and miss nightmare. You have to call an average of two, insane answer machine, LONG hold times and longer as they put you on hold. Why because there systems are SLOW. It's a minimum of 35 minutes to hours to get any one thing done.
RP DOES NOT carry themselves well. You CAN NOT depend on what they tell you. On your first call it's one thing. The next call it's another reason and the third yet another reason why things are not working. Clueless reps. Unprofessional. Poor English. and/or poor connection.
What goes wrong. Failure to transition month to month. Failure to fall over to the LIMITED "Unlimited" SLOW speed that's on some plans. Plus they are known for cutting off customers on the insanely slow speed altogether. Whereas other providers promise they will never cut you off. With Red Pocket you will be lucky if it works with your high speed data.
We have had many phones with RP including GSM and CDMAV and they are both failing reliability.
Frankly RP must be being bought out and don't care anymore. BEware.
TF is worse.
Tello's ability to rollover data and minutes is unique and fantastic. Due to referral bonuses and rollover I now have over 2GBs of data and 300 minutes in reserve. So I can renew each month at the lowest plan of 500MBs and 100 minutes (unlimited texts) for $6.Tello does charge tax which comes to $1.29 but given rollover and NO problems, the extra $2.29 a month is well worth it.
This is what I think is going on with RP: their sims and provisioning are handled by a "MVNE" called Plintron. I believe Plintron also handles customer service off-shore. Imo, what you see as RP is actually just a sales and marketing company. Any actual tech is handled by Plintron.
Furthermore, RP per se has no relationship with the underlying carrier, e.g. T-Mobile. Plintron is T-Mobile's actual customer. After weeks trying to remove a phantom voicemail message from my phone, I pointed out that a vm reset would probably solve the problem, which is the first thing a T-Mobile rep would probably suggest. I was the told that RP (Plintron?) has no way of troubleshooting problems with the carrier other than email. This is not effective.
I believe RP to be inherently flawed and a bad service. I could not be happier with Tello. YMMV.
Any idea of how to figure untealmobile account number and pin?
I am really having trouble with it and want to move on with other company.
The RedPocket ebay store has a 98.1% positive rating out of nearly 23k reviews so I am not the only happy customer. I recommended to a couple people as well who were paying a ton every month and they are very happy as well. They didn't even believe the price was legit and possible because the high prices that they were paying.
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