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Cricket Wireless Smart Unlimited

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  • Video streaming limited to a resolution of about 480p
  • Unlimited international texting. Talk, text and data roaming while in Mexico and Canada.
  • Unlimited texts from the US to over 200 destinations
  • Price shown is with auto pay billing enabled. Without auto pay price is $50/month.
  • 15GB hotspot
  • WiFi calling and texting is supported but limited to iPhones and devices sold by Cricket Wireless
  • eSIM Capable – eSIM available for iPhone and Android compatible phones
  • Data speeds may be temporarily slowed anytime the network is heavily congested
  • Add Apple Watch to your plan for $10/month
  • 100GB cloud storage

Flex Mobile Unlimited

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  • Includes 50 monthly reward points, can be redeemed for travel, entertainment, shopping, prizes and more.

Boost Mobile Unlimited+ 40GB

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  • Video streaming limited to 480p
  • Service will likely be primarily on the AT&T network with roaming on T-Mobile
  • Includes global talk and text
  • Buy now pay later device financing is available, but this will change your account to postpaid
  • $50/month with autopay billing enabled. $55/month without autopay
  • Special discounts are available on devices, up to $300 in savings
  • Use all your data for hotspot

Add-Ons

Available add-ons include:

  • 10GB of additional high-speed data, $10
  • Premium Visual Voicemail, $3/month, allows you to flag messages based on importance, attach notes to them, organize them into folders
  • Canada and Mexico roaming with 5GB of roaming data – $10/month
  • Global Roaming – $20/month, includes 1GB of data, additional data is priced at $10/GB with a add-on 9GB data cap
  • Boost Protect – $8/month – phone insurance. Covers you in the event of theft or damage.

Boost Mobile Unlimited Premium 50GB

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  • Video streaming limited to 480p
  • You will likely have primary service on AT&T with roaming on T-Mobile
  • Includes global talk and text
  • Buy now pay later device financing is available, but this will change your account to postpaid
  • $60/month with autopay billing enabled. $65/month without autopay
  • Special discounts are available on devices, up to $430 in savings
  • Use all your data for hotspot
  • Includes Canada and Mexico roaming with 5GB of data

Add-Ons

Available add-ons include:

  • 10GB of additional high-speed data, $10
  • Premium Visual Voicemail, $3/month, allows you to flag messages based on importance, attach notes to them, organize them into folders
  • Global Roaming – $20/month, includes 1GB of data, additional data is priced at $10/GB with a add-on 9GB data cap
  • Boost Protect – $8/month – phone insurance. Covers you in the event of theft or damage.

Consumer Cellular 1GB

  • AARP Members save 5% off their monthly bill
  • Ranked number 1 by Consumer Reports in customer satisfaction, and tops by JD Power as well as in other studies
  • If you go over your plans data allotment, automatically get bumped up to next higher-priced plan with more data
  • Price shown is with auto-pay billing enabled. Without auto-pay billing, price is $25
  • WiFi calling may be available upon request
  • Includes calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra cost
  • Data is shared between lines. If you need more than 3-lines you’ll need to contact Consumer Cellular customer support for pricing

Consumer Cellular 5GB

  • AARP Members save 5% off their monthly bill
  • Ranked number 1 by Consumer Reports in customer satisfaction, and tops by JD Power as well as in other studies
  • Price shown with autopay billing enabled. Without autopay billing enabled, price is $30
  • WiFi calling may be available upon request
  • Includes calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra cost
  • Data is shared between lines. If you need more than 3-lines you’ll need to contact Consumer Cellular customer support for pricing
  • If you go over your data allotment, you’ll automatically be billed for the next higher plan

Consumer Cellular 10GB

  • AARP Members save 5% off their monthly bill
  • Ranked number 1 by Consumer Reports in customer satisfaction, and tops by JD Power as well as in other studies
  • If you go over your plans data allotment, automatically get bumped up to next higher-priced plan with more data
  • Price shown is with auto-pay billing enabled. Without auto-pay billing, price is $40
  • With multiple lines, data from line 1 is shared between lines
  • WiFi calling may be available upon request
  • Includes calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra cost
  • Data is shared between lines. If you need more than 3-lines you’ll need to contact Consumer Cellular customer support for pricing
  • If you go over your data allotment, you’ll automatically be billed for the next higher plan

Consumer Cellular 20GB

  • AARP Members save 5% off their monthly bill
  • Ranked number 1 by Consumer Reports in customer satisfaction, and tops by JD Power as well as in other studies
  • If you go over your plans data allotment, automatically get bumped up to next higher-priced plan with more data
  • Price shown is with auto-pay billing enabled. Without auto-pay billing, price is $50
  • With multiple lines, data from line 1 is shared between lines
  • WiFi calling may be available upon request
  • Includes calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra cost
  • Data is shared between lines. If you need more than 3-lines you’ll need to contact Consumer Cellular customer support for pricing
  • If you go over your data allotment, you’ll automatically be billed for the next higher plan

Consumer Cellular Unlimited 35 Ages 50+

  • Plan only for those ages 50+
  • AARP Members save 5% off their monthly bill
  • AARP Members get 2-lines for $55/month
  • Ranked number 1 by Consumer Reports in customer satisfaction, and tops by JD Power as well as in other studies
  • Price shown is with auto-pay billing enabled. Without auto-pay billing, price is $60
  • With multiple lines, data from line 1 is shared between lines
  • WiFi calling may be available upon request
  • Includes calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra cost
  • Data is shared between lines. If you need more than 3-lines you’ll need to contact Consumer Cellular customer support for pricing
  • Data speeds slowed to 512Kbps after 50GB

Consumer Cellular Unlimited 18-49 Years

  • Plan only for those ages 18-49
  • AARP Members save 5% off their monthly bill
  • Ranked number 1 by Consumer Reports in customer satisfaction, and tops by JD Power as well as in other studies
  • Price shown is with auto-pay billing enabled. Without auto-pay billing, price is $65
  • With multiple lines, data from line 1 is shared between lines
  • WiFi calling may be available upon request
  • Includes calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra cost
  • Data is shared between lines. If you need more than 3-lines you’ll need to contact Consumer Cellular customer support for pricing
  • Data speeds slowed to 512Kbps after 35GB

Consumer Cellular Unlimited 2 For 55

  • Plan rate exclusively available to AARP members
  • Ranked number 1 by Consumer Reports in customer satisfaction, and tops by JD Power as well as in other studies
  • Data is shared between lines
  • WiFi calling may be available upon request
  • Includes calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra cost
  • Data speeds reduced to 512 Kbps after 50GB

Consumer Cellular 50+ Unlimited 2 For 60

  • Plan rate exclusively available to those aged 50+, ID verification required
  • Ranked number 1 by Consumer Reports in customer satisfaction, and tops by JD Power as well as in other studies
  • Data is shared between lines
  • WiFi calling may be available upon request
  • Includes calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra cost
  • Data speeds reduced to 512 Kbps after 50GB

Cox Mobile Pay As You Gig

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  • In order to subscribe to this plan you must have Cox Internet, enroll in EasyPay, and enroll in paperless billing
  • This plan does not come with a predetermined allotment of data. Cox Mobile charges subscribers by the gigabyte of data that they use at a rate of $15/GB per line. Customers that go over 5GB of data will have their data speeds slowed to 1.5Mbps download and 750Kbps upload.
  • Roaming is available but you are billed extra for it. Using over 200MB of domestic in a month may result in Cox Mobile disabling roaming for your account
  • International calling and texting may be available but you may be billed extra for it
  • Cox Mobile does not explicitly state if this plan includes mobile hotspot. However, Cox Mobile’s general terms and conditions state: “excessive use of a Device as a mobile “hotspot” tethered to other devices or other excessive data usage that is not typical of an individual consumer’s non-commercial, personal use including but not limited to automated connections that allow web broadcasts, automatic data feeds, automated machine-to-machine connections or peer-to-peer file sharing, use of Service as a substitute or back-up for private lines, landlines, or full-time or dedicated data connections, excessive and/or disproportionate data usage that contributes or has the potential of contributing to network congestion, spam or unsolicited commercial or bulk email generation, using unauthorized software or devices to maintain a continuous active Internet connection when the connection would otherwise have entered idle mode, and usage that conflicts with applicable law;”

Cox Mobile Unlimited

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  • In order to subscribe to this plan you must have Cox Internet, enroll in EasyPay, and enroll in paperless billing
  • Customers that go over 20GB of data in a billing cycle will have their data speeds slowed to 1.5Mbps download and 750Kbps upload for the remainder of the billing cycle.
  • Roaming is available but you are billed extra for it. Using over 200MB of domestic in a month may result in Cox Mobile disabling roaming for your account
  • International calling and texting may be available but you may be billed extra for it
  • Cox Mobile does not explicitly state if this plan includes mobile hotspot. However, Cox Mobile’s general terms and conditions state: “excessive use of a Device as a mobile “hotspot” tethered to other devices or other excessive data usage that is not typical of an individual consumer’s non-commercial, personal use including but not limited to automated connections that allow web broadcasts, automatic data feeds, automated machine-to-machine connections or peer-to-peer file sharing, use of Service as a substitute or back-up for private lines, landlines, or full-time or dedicated data connections, excessive and/or disproportionate data usage that contributes or has the potential of contributing to network congestion, spam or unsolicited commercial or bulk email generation, using unauthorized software or devices to maintain a continuous active Internet connection when the connection would otherwise have entered idle mode, and usage that conflicts with applicable law;”

Credo 1 GB

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  • This plan bills for data overages.  Data overages are $15/GB.
  • Multi-line accounts share a single pool of data
  • Includes calling to Mexico and Canada
  • Credo Mobile is a very politically active MVNO.  A portion of the company’s profits are used to advance progressive causes.