To anybody that is looking to spend less on cell phone service, I suggest checking out the service that my wife and I have been testing for the last couple of weeks.
http://referrals.republicwireless.com/a/clk/2BFYtb
We were spending $125/month for At&t with 200 Mb each of data and unlimited talk/text. The plan we are on now is $25/month EACH for UNLIMITED everything, talk/text/web.
Upside is obviously the cost, no contracts and perfectly acceptable coverage (I've noticed no coverage difference between them and At&t, even though Republic runs on Sprint's network). Downsides, because there is no contract, you have to pay full retail for the phone, and you only have one choice of phones at the moment (albeit a really good one IMO), MotoX@$300. Also, right now, they have no provisions for reactivating a used phone which is crappy, but they promise that will be taken care of by the end of this quarter. This is probably the most aggravating thing for me because I don't like the idea of having a mini-tablet if I chose in a few months that I don't like the service. But, the $300 I spent on it will break even in just a few months anyhow. Still, they better take care of it.
I personally haven't really had any other issues, but my wife has had trouble with them going through to a couple of people. We'll see if we can get that worked out. It is only on picture messages to two different people though.
The link posted above is a referral link and it gives you a $19 credit, and me too, IF YOU LIKE THE SERVICE... nothing if you don't like it. The email they sent out yesterday says that they are doing away with this referral process on the 28th of this month, so if you want the $19 credit, don't wait around too long. My initial plan was to test the phone out for a month or two before recommending it to anybody, but since they're ending the program and thus far, I've been perfectly happy with it, I'd just assume use the link while we can.
Lastly, you have a 30 day trial period, if you don't like it, just send the phone back to them and get all of your money back, other than $8 or $9 shipping.
Anyhow, it makes no matter to me if I get the referral credit or not... it would be nice and I won't complain about getting them, but I'm telling you, if you want more money to save up for some .22 ammo......... this might be one way to help get there. I say give it a try for a couple weeks without porting your original number to it, decide if you like it, then port your number. That's how we did it, that way there was no interruption in our service on our original numbers.
They have four different pricing options, $5 for unlimited talk/text/web over wi-fi only (pretty much a worthless plan IMO, but maybe it works well for some people), $10 for unlimited talk/text with no web, $25 for unlimited talk/text/3G data and $40 for unlimited talk/text/4G data.
Anyway, see what you think and I'll answer any questions for you I can if you have any. There are some things that kinda piss me off about them, but compared to the other company, I can live with the minor irritations.
http://referrals.republicwireless.com/a/clk/2BFYtb
We were spending $125/month for At&t with 200 Mb each of data and unlimited talk/text. The plan we are on now is $25/month EACH for UNLIMITED everything, talk/text/web.
Upside is obviously the cost, no contracts and perfectly acceptable coverage (I've noticed no coverage difference between them and At&t, even though Republic runs on Sprint's network). Downsides, because there is no contract, you have to pay full retail for the phone, and you only have one choice of phones at the moment (albeit a really good one IMO), MotoX@$300. Also, right now, they have no provisions for reactivating a used phone which is crappy, but they promise that will be taken care of by the end of this quarter. This is probably the most aggravating thing for me because I don't like the idea of having a mini-tablet if I chose in a few months that I don't like the service. But, the $300 I spent on it will break even in just a few months anyhow. Still, they better take care of it.
I personally haven't really had any other issues, but my wife has had trouble with them going through to a couple of people. We'll see if we can get that worked out. It is only on picture messages to two different people though.
The link posted above is a referral link and it gives you a $19 credit, and me too, IF YOU LIKE THE SERVICE... nothing if you don't like it. The email they sent out yesterday says that they are doing away with this referral process on the 28th of this month, so if you want the $19 credit, don't wait around too long. My initial plan was to test the phone out for a month or two before recommending it to anybody, but since they're ending the program and thus far, I've been perfectly happy with it, I'd just assume use the link while we can.
Lastly, you have a 30 day trial period, if you don't like it, just send the phone back to them and get all of your money back, other than $8 or $9 shipping.
Anyhow, it makes no matter to me if I get the referral credit or not... it would be nice and I won't complain about getting them, but I'm telling you, if you want more money to save up for some .22 ammo......... this might be one way to help get there. I say give it a try for a couple weeks without porting your original number to it, decide if you like it, then port your number. That's how we did it, that way there was no interruption in our service on our original numbers.
They have four different pricing options, $5 for unlimited talk/text/web over wi-fi only (pretty much a worthless plan IMO, but maybe it works well for some people), $10 for unlimited talk/text with no web, $25 for unlimited talk/text/3G data and $40 for unlimited talk/text/4G data.
Anyway, see what you think and I'll answer any questions for you I can if you have any. There are some things that kinda piss me off about them, but compared to the other company, I can live with the minor irritations.
And once I got past the CSR's they fixed my problem ... Everything else has been peachy-keen. 
It's gotten so bad that the staff their cring when they see our vehicle pull into the parking lot and won't even make eye contact with us until one of us finally forces them to. Bastards ... 
