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Best Xfinity Mobile plans in 2024
If you're already an Xfinity customer, you may be able to save on wireless service with an unlimited Xfinity Mobile plan
If you get your TV or internet through Xfinity, there’s no doubt that you’ve seen an ad for Xfinity Mobile. Xfinity Mobile uses Verizon coverage in tandem with Xfinity WiFi hotspots to provide mobile phone service for its customers. With Xfinity, you can get up to 50GB of high-speed data on its top Unlimited Plus plan, but for many people, the cheaper Unlimited plan will make more sense. Xfinity Mobile, while it requires Xfinity home internet service to sign up, is a good value with multiline savings and deals on new phones, tablets, and smartwatches.
Best Metro plans in 2024
Looking for a T-Mobile service for less? Metro has unlimited plans with full 5G speeds and family savings
A prepaid plan on the T-Mobile network is a great way to save on wireless, even if you want unlimited data for multiple lines. Metro by T-Mobile is a prepaid brand owned by T-Mobile that provides three unlimited plans, one 5GB plan, and a home internet service that can be bundled in. For the most part, Metro’s plans stick to the essentials, offering unlimited talk, texting, and data with a handful of add-ons for those who need international usage.
T-Mobile vs. Verizon: Which carrier is the better value?
T-Mobile and Verizon offer a lot of data on their 5G networks, with streaming-focused perks to help customers make the most of them
T-Mobile has been a big pain for the incumbent top carriers, AT&T and Verizon, over the past few years. This is due to its departure from the stifling contract-laden past plans, a boost in 5G deployment (thanks to its purchase of Sprint), and its valuable 2.5GHz spectrum. T-Mobile has managed to keep its foot on the gas with other updates like new plans, simplified pricing, and easy-to-understand discounts that have kept the carrier competitive as Verizon has started to decrease the gap in mid-band 5G coverage.
Best AT&T plans in 2024
AT&T offer the best coverage for your? These are the best plans to use with the carrier
Whether you’re a heavy user who needs totally unlimited data or a light user looking to save some cash, picking the best AT&T plan can be a challenge.
The best T-Mobile phone plans give you access to the carrier’s massive 5G network with enough data to actually use it, while avoiding paying for features you don’t need.
Best value smartphone data plans for single lines and families in 2024
Now may be the right time to cut down on your wireless bill
The easiest mistake to make when signing up for a new smartphone data plan is overbuying. Carriers are happy to push new customers toward their biggest and most fully-featured plans with phone deals and promotions, but you will likely end up spending way more than necessary in the long run.
AT&T doubles the data on one of its plans while keeping the same price
You need to pay for a year of service that you'll use one month at a time
Having to shop around for a new wireless carrier plan these days? We don't envy you. If you're looking at what the Big Three have to offer, you're going to find plenty of mentions of the word "unlimited" and bundled-in streaming services that you may or may not want, especially when you consider the asking prices for some of these plans. But the iceberg spans wide and deep and this promo from AT&T's own-brand prepaid division should give you some pause, especially if you can afford your cell service on an annual basis.
T-Mobile's new cheapest plan sounds like a dud
You likely won't get a phone deal with Base Essentials
You might want to look out for the bare necessities — the simple bare necessities — coming to T-Mobile shortly as it seems a new postpaid plan is set to round out the low end of its offerings.
Don't pay for data you don't use! Get the Goldilocks of mobile data plans, designed to fit just right
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Today AT&T announced its refreshed DataConnect plans, now with extra 5G. While that's nice, the big news is that they're considerably less expensive than they used to be. Customers looking to AT&T for a dedicated connection on a mobile-equipped tablet, laptop, or hotspot might want to check them out.
T-Mobile just announced revamped plans last month, and now it has new international data passes to go with them. The old day pass option still exists, but now you can give T-Mobile more money for more data, and those bytes won't expire as quickly.
We all know that the supposed "unlimited" plans offered by US carriers actually impose a large number of limits. So, you might as well get something for putting up with them. US Cellular's new Unlimited with Payback plan comes with an interesting offer. Use as much data as you want, but you can get $10 back on your next bill if you keep your usage lower.
T-Mobile was the first US carrier to really push the idea of free international roaming, although the data speeds have always been terrible. Still, your T-Mobile phone works in other countries, which is more than you could say a few years ago. Now, Tmo has expanded free roaming to even more countries, and there's a cheaper option if you want LTE data while traveling the world.
Cricket Wireless, the MVNO owned by AT&T, tends to change its pricing tiers from time to time. Back in May, the company increased the amount of high-speed data on its $40/month plan from 3GB to 4GB. Starting November 5, new changes will go into affect for its $30/mo and $40/mo tiers.
Verizon ruffled some feathers last month when it was caught throttling Netflix on its LTE network. At the time the carrier said it was merely testing video optimization technology, and now we know why. Verizon has done away with its standard unlimited data plan, replacing it with three tiers of unlimited data. All of them include video throttling—in fact, you can't get 1080p video on phones on any of them.
Back in April, Comcast announced that it was entering the wireless game with Xfinity Mobile. It promised "a new kind of network" and the plans actually weren't too bad, with $12 per GB, a $45 unlimited tariff, and discounts for Xfinity home internet customers paying for the more expensive packages. 18 million Wi-Fi hotspots are also accessible, helping to keep cellular data costs down. Xfinity Mobile has now been rolled out across all of Comcast's service areas.
Do you want more data allotment per month? If the answer is no, I'm not sure why you're reading Android Police and I'm starting to doubt whether we should be friends. The answer should always be yes, regardless. And to that, Cricket Wireless is upping its data allocation on its $40 monthly plan ($35 with autopay) from 3GB to 4GB.
Verizon has been making a lot of headlines with new wireless plans as of late, but they've all been in the realm of post-paid customers, those data-hungry hoity-toity bourgeoisie one percenters of the wireless world. The company hasn't forgotten the little guy, in so much as that little guy can afford a Verizon-compatible phone and some of the most expensive dollar-per-gig rates in the industry. Today they've announced a new 2GB prepaid option for , which is now the cheapest prepaid plan on the network.
Competition is a wonderful thing. Verizon and the other major US wireless carriers basically abandoned the idea of unlimited mobile data around the time that Android and smartphones in general started surging in the market, finding it was much easier to get money out of customers by shoveling them into tiered service. But since T-Mobile, Sprint, and even AT&T have reintroduced unlimited data in various flavors, customers have danced in their little cotton socks, happily paying a premium for the luxury of not having to think about their data allotments. It seems like someone at Verizon finally got the message: the company will start offering unlimited data plans once again starting tomorrow.
Every day we seem to be inundated with ads about who has the absolute cheapest data plan. Online, television, billboards, junk mail, even old-fashioned radio - it seems I can't go five minutes without each carrier telling me how much cheaper they are than everyone else, going so far as to hire old Verizon spokesmen and make dubious claims about reliability.