Xfinity mobile

[Pancho 46300]

Anyone have this?

Unlimited data for $45 per month, and I think they use Verizon’s towers for WiFi.  Can’t seem to find how their speed when playing videos compares to AT&T though.  

Got rid of everythang else ATT except my cell, and I’m willing to switch too if this is a good enough deal like it seems. 

 

Should add, it’s 45 for people who are already xfinity customers 

[kevwun 16437]

Make sure their speed isn’t throttled.  That what AT&T does to Cricket.

[crash_davis 23470]

All MVNOs are subject to a lower class of service than the underlying carriers. The real world impact will depend on where you are and what the situation is. 

The whole idea around the MVNO is that the carriers have idle capacity on their network. They sell this idle capacity at a cheaper rate but also give it a lower class of service as to not interfere with their native traffic. The contract can also state a limit on the throughput/bandwidth even when there's no congestion. The larger MVNOs will have more leverage to negotiate better class of service but the traffic will always by 2nd class at best.

If there is any network congestion, the MVNOs traffic will be throttled to make room for the native carrier's traffic. Also a network switch has a limit on the number of connections that it can handle at any one time.  For example, if that number is 1000 and there are 1200 people trying to connect at the same time to that switch, the lower class of service traffic will also be blocked from connecting to the switch which mean no call until the ports free up. Think immediately at the end of a UT football game when every makes a phone call to connect with others. You may wait some time before you are given a port on the switch.

 

[Chopper 17431]

If you're connected to the web does xfinity charge for those minutes as data, either on the internet or on the phone? For example google only charges for data if you're using a cell tower but not when you have a decent internet connection.

[elfenix 34749]

visible seems like a better deal, though comcast has a big hot spot network so if you're near one at work you could use that. 

[elfenix 34749]

12 minutes ago, Chopper said:

If you're connected to the web does xfinity charge for those minutes as data, either on the internet or on the phone?

is this english?

[Chopper 17431]

4 hours ago, elfenix said:

is this english?

I don't fucking know. But, for example, Google Fi does not count/charge for data used through wifi. They only charge for data that's used through 3g or 4g or whatever. Wondering if Verizon is the same. 

Edited November 5, 2019 by Chopper

[elfenix 34749]

10 minutes ago, Chopper said:

fify

For example, Google Fi does not count/charge for data used through wifi. They only charge for data that's used through 3g or 4g or whatever. Wondering if Verizon is the same. 

i could tell you, but it won't make any sense until you sober up.

[TwiceHorn 32076]

Because packets sent via wifi couldn't even be easily counted by a wireless provider, I doubt that they count that against your data.  No one does that.

For the record, it's all the same internet.  It's whether you connect via the provider's cellular radio or someone else's (your) wifi that determines whether you are charged for data.

[Chopper 17431]

3 minutes ago, elfenix said:

i could tell you, but it won't make any sense until you sober up.

goddammit...Mom?

[Chopper 17431]

4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Because packets sent via wifi couldn't even be easily counted by a wireless provider, I doubt that they count that against your data.  No one does that.

Do Verizon cell phones use wifi for voice calls, like Google Fi or Republic Wireless, or is their voice service cell-tower dependent? 

[elfenix 34749]

8 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Do Verizon cell phones use wifi for voice calls, like Google Fi or Republic Wireless, or is their voice service cell-tower dependent? 

verizon can use wifi calling.

faq: https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/wifi-calling-faqs/

[crash_davis 23470]

i believe all the major carriers support wifi calling. i know vz, at&t, and tmo does.  i would be really surprised if sprint does not.  not sure if that capability is extended to mvnos. however since moving to lte, it's all going over IP anyway. so mvnos "should" offer wifi calling.

Edited November 5, 2019 by crash_davis

[TwiceHorn 32076]

15 hours ago, Chopper said:

Do Verizon cell phones use wifi for voice calls, like Google Fi or Republic Wireless, or is their voice service cell-tower dependent? 

To clarify the previous posts, the default mode of voice calling on any carrier is using cellular radio transmission, i.e. "minutes."

If your provider and your phone are capable, you can use wifi calling, which uses the internet, connected to through a wifi connection, to transmit voice much as a VOIP phone does.  Wifi calling uses neither "minutes" nor "data."

[kevwun 16437]

You usually have to enable wifi calling in your phone settings, at least iPhones are that way.  Wifi calling is turned off by default on them.