New Cell Phone Provider, Ting, Too Good To Be True or a Future Leader in the Industry?

I went from $70 to $16 per month.

Drawback, the phone is considered as a pre-paid phone by long distance operators.

The business I was trying to call in the Cook Islands didn't have Skype, and for reasons Ting couldn't figure out at that time, my phone would not call direct. So tried the long distance operator to dial for me and told there was no way to bill me for her assistance. That's when I found out my phone was considered as a pre-paid.

The service people with Ting had forgotten to click the button that allows my phone to call outside the States. Once resolved, all was well.

Ting service people were very helpful and persistent in trying to fix the problem.

The cheapest data plan I've seen capped at $30 per month, no contract is the walmart $30 tmobile plan.

Unlimited data, 4g up to the 1st 5 GB, 2-3g data after that is unlimited, no additional charge.

The plan also has unlimited texting but only 100 minutes of voice calls. But if you set up your Android to do SIP/VOIP internet calling with Google Voice you are using the data and not the voice minutes.

This is how I roll and since my main number is ported to Google Voice I don't even need to pay the cell plan except when I am traveling. In which case I can activate a daily rate.

Anytime I am within range of WIFI my calls find me with or without tmobile.

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company that I looked at last month. I don't think they go as low as $10 but I was considering switching to something like this when my current plan expires.
Since the novelty is gone, I'm weary of throwing money away for minutes, data, and text services that I rarely, if ever, use in any given month.

http://www.net10wireless.com/#/plans

My wife uses it and loves it. She discontinued her sprint service and continued using the same phone with ting.

I've been on Ting for a few months, coming from at&t. To try it out I purchased a refurbished gen1 android - an LG optimus S. It's not too bad considering with the $50(now $25) joerogan.ting(dot)com discount dropped the price of the phone to $6 shipped with no contract at all. It has all the capabilities of my iphone 3gs but has some annoying bugs(reoccurring error messaging). What do u expect in a $6 smart phone.

I get MUCH better voice reception side by side with at&t in every location I have tried it, it's so nice to not cut in and out in rural areas and I am in them alot. The 3g is not quite as good as at&t in rural areas but, I speculate that this could be due to the old school phone I am currently running it on. While using it near the city it is as good or better than at&t. I plan to stay with ting and upgrade phones soon regardless.

I called a few days ago for my brother asking for information on getting his number switched from at&t to ting(i got a whole new number myself). On the 2nd ring! without one single automated prompt a very nice AMERICAN girl named Katie answered and in just a few seconds I had my answer in plain english. "You need your ssn and your at&t pin number at the time of activating your phone."

So yea, I'm excited to be with ting and have only great things to say so far.

for the heads up!

http://www.rethinkingthedream.com/485/ting-wireless-a-review...