Does anyone use Google FI for their cellular service?

[Trackrig]

Supposedly, Google, who has service contracts with Sprint, ATT and Verizon, will switch your call to whichever carrier you have the strongest connection to at the time your call is placed. We currently have Verizon which works fine while on the road, but at home they have terrible service. Does anyone have experience with using Google FI?

Bill

[CBDunkerson]

Trackrig wrote:
Supposedly, Google, who has service contracts with Sprint, ATT and Verizon, will switch your call to whichever carrier you have the strongest connection to at the time your call is placed.

Does anyone have experience with using Google FI?

I have Visible (which uses the Verizon network) as my main internet hotspot because it is cheap and truly unlimited. Google Fi is on my primary smartphone and serves as a backup hotspot because it connects calls and data through Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and various wifi networks. Between the two of them that covers all of the top five US cellular networks except AT&T.

I'd say I use Visible more than 95% of the time. Every once in a while I'll have poor or no signal on Visible and be able to use Google Fi instead. More often, if one isn't working then neither does.

[Bill_Satellite]

The Google FI site is a bit confusing and possibly misleading. Under the $70/month plan it says unlimited data but....
"Unlimited data High-speed data up to 22 GB/person & slower after. Video may stream at DVD-quality (480p)."
The $20/month plan (+$10/GB max $60 more) does not say anything about speeds or limits.

[MrWizard]

$20 + $10*6 = $80

No that's not cheap, when you are streaming video data

[dieseltruckdriv]

Bill.Satellite wrote:

HackerAce wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Google Fi is just too expensive to use if you plan to use it for much more than the most casual surfing.

$20 per month with $10 per gig up 6 Gig with a burst over to 15 gigs.

Minimum of $30 per month, that's expensive?

I generally use 60-100GB/month. Yes, that's expensive! If you plan to use WiFi as your primary TV source, Yes, that's going to be expensive.

Data is free after 6 gig. This is right off the Google Fi website. I do not know if they throttle data.

[Bill_Satellite]

HackerAce wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Google Fi is just too expensive to use if you plan to use it for much more than the most casual surfing.

$20 per month with $10 per gig up 6 Gig with a burst over to 15 gigs.

Minimum of $30 per month, that's expensive?

I generally use 60-100GB/month. Yes, that's expensive! If you plan to use WiFi as your primary TV source, Yes, that's going to be expensive.

[pianotuna]

HackerAce,

What is a burst over?

[HackerAce]

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Google Fi is just too expensive to use if you plan to use it for much more than the most casual surfing.

$20 per month with $10 per gig up 6 Gig with a burst over to 15 gigs.

Minimum of $30 per month, that's expensive?

[theoldwizard1]

If you are a light data user, you should check into Ting. No contract. $6/mo/phone base charge. Only pay for what you use.

With 3 phones, my bill is typically under $60/month.

[Bill_Satellite]

Google Fi is just too expensive to use if you plan to use it for much more than the most casual surfing.

[HackerAce]

I been of Google FI for over a year now. Their is a $10 per gig data charge for up to 15Gig a month.

Even maxing out the data my bill is $80 per month compared to the $120 per month I was paying on Sprint.

I have had no issues with the service. In fact when I went to Bulgaria recently after turning on my phone it said, "Welcome to Bulgaria, please wait a moment while we figure things out". In less than five minutes my phone was working in Bulgaria with my normal phone number. Pretty nice if you ask me.

[pianotuna]

The issue with Google Fi is data. IIRC they charge $10 per gig.

[dieseltruckdriv]

Trackrig wrote:
Supposedly, Google, who has service contracts with Sprint, ATT and Verizon, will switch your call to whichever carrier you have the strongest connection to at the time your call is placed. We currently have Verizon which works fine while on the road, but at home they have terrible service. Does anyone have experience with using Google FI?

Bill

My DWs phone is on Google FI. I wanted to test it out and she agreed. Mine is on Verizon, and she loses service a couple miles before me, and gets it back a couple miles after me in fringe areas. There hasn't ever been a time we were somewhere other than driving when I had service and she hasn't. She has been on it for about a year now.

I don't believe that FI uses Verizon or AT&T though. I know it uses T mobile, Sprint and US Cellular, as well as available dependable wifi.

We both have the same phones, Pixel 2s, and every time I ask her if she wants to switch, she says not yet... She can use her phone as a hot spot, we just have to pay for the actual data used.

One spot where we boondock/fish quite often, our Weboost helps her out quite a bit.

[azdryheat]

Nope. I can't say I've ever been anywhere where I didn't have Verizon service.

[garym114]

Looked at it but found out the service doesn't visual voice mail