![]() It cost us €0.09 for outgoing calls to any German number, €0.09 a text to any German mobile, and €10/month for 1GB of 3G data. In Germany, we spent roughly €40 ($53) a month combined for prepaid access on our phones. It’s common in nearly every country across the world to have a system where you load up your phone with credit to make calls/texts, don’t pay for incoming calls/texts, and can pay a little bit more for a prepaid Internet plan for a week or a month. The mobile land$capeįrom the Department of Obvious: we’re all paying way too much for our mobile phones across these United States.Įver since my wife and I moved back from Europe, I’ve pined for a European-style (really, rest-of-the-world style) top-up, pay-as-you-go mobile phone service in the US. ![]() And, my God! It’s cheap-less than $1 a day! Almost anything at that price is worth weighing the pros and cons. After using TextNow’s service for about two weeks, I can say that it generally works. Last month, we reported on TextNow, a Canadian startup offering 500MB of data, 750 rollover minutes, free incoming calls, and unlimited texts to American mobile users. You must use one of two older-model Android phones, and you have to use a Wi-Fi network to make calls when available (don’t worry, that process is automated). This is a real deal but it comes with some fine print. Psst, wanna pay under $20 a month for your cellphone service? Seriously.
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