Why Mint Mobile is best mobile plan out there!

It’s very fast, and if I had a 5G phone, there would be no extra cost for 5G usage on Mint Mobile!

My former phone carrier was Cricket Wireless, which is not bad, and which will serve as my base for comparison in this article as of 10/2021.

Cricket uses AT&T as the backend to their system (AT&T owns Cricket, by the way…) and that’s great for coverage, but unfortunately, AT&T caps the Cricket download speeds to 8 Mbps). With Mint Mobile, the backend provider is T-Mobile, but Mint Mobile is, for the most part, uncapped (at least so far in my area, not sure about megacities…), so this means that my speeds increased from 8 MBps to an average of 40 to 60 Mbps in my city. That’s blazingly fast compared to Cricket (wish I had a 5G phone…)

Mint Mobile Owner and Celebrity Influencer…

Oh, Ryan Reynolds kind of makes it cool too. I wonder if Blake Lively will chime in sometime in the future (Ryan’s so lucky!)?

In my house, Mint Mobil provides around 20 MBps to 50 MBps for download data speeds (again, wish I had a 5G phone…). If I had a 5G phone, there would be no comparison because Mint Mobile would be at an entirely superior level of performance (thanks to T-Mobile).

I chose a similar plan (10G month data download, unlimited texting, calls…) to what I had previously, but with an important exception… I CAN NOW USE MY PHONE AS A HOTSPOT ACCESS POINT!!! Since the huge number of people are working from home now, this is critical because it provides an emergency way to connect workstations/laptops to work so that we call can still be productive, even what your primary ISP is down!

Last summer, I had an emergency outage where I was in the middle of running a script when a thunderstorm took out my city ISP. I literally drove to the library (which uses a different ISP) to remote back into work and inspect the logs from my still running critical and too new PowerShell script. With my new Mint Mobile hotspot, now I can just connect to it from my workstation (really laptop) so that I have access to work in such emergencies in less than 2 minutes. Whew!!! My next purchase (maybe next year) will be a backup battery for my monitors to my laptop, that way I could have total power loss at my house and still remote into work via the Mint Mobile hotspot… or maybe I’ll get a Tesla Powerwall battery (nice dream huh…).

Being a financial blogger with the title being “Money Reasons”, obviously I’m a frugal guy so money savings is important to me. This is where it gets interesting… not only do I at lest quadruple my data speeds, get 5G for free connectivity and speeds (did I mention that I wish I had a 5 G phone), have hotspot capabilities for free (your phone also has to be able to enable this option in its settings) but also (drumrollllll) it’s half the cost! Yes, crazy huh.

So Mint Mobile is charging $60 for the first three months (so $20 per month), but if you click on a referral link (yes, mine is: http://fbuy.me/sOjQr ), you get an extra $15 off the $60 price (sweet, right…). And if you pay 1 year in advance, you’ll keep the $20/Month rate (this is what I did). If you decide to go with a shorter ($25/month for 6 months, or $35/month for prepaying for three months), those are still cheaper than my previous provider, and probably yours too!

So if you click on my link: http://fbuy.me/sOjQr, then click “shop plans” on their website, you can see their current plans. Once you do get “onboarded” to Mint, check out their referral program, you can reduce your cost even more via that problem.

Oh, one last thing… If you are a heavy consumer of data, you can go with the unlimited plan for $30/month if you prepay for a year. You do that that $30/month rate for the first 3 months as part of your promotion, after your first 3 months of the promotion, you can get the next 12 months at a low $30/month rate if you prepay for an entire year too

Okay, I always like to see an example on stuff like this, so this is what I did:

• I signed up for the 3 months plan at the promotion rate of $20/month for 3 months on 10/5/2022. This was amazingly great, right!
• On date: 1/5/2022, the introduction rate is over and I can either prepay for 3 months @ $35, 6 months @ $25/month price, or 12 months @ $25/month price (<-I chose this, for now). I say I chose the 12 months plan because I set it up the autorenewal so I don’t have to remember in January in 2020 (although I’m sure mint mobile would text me before that date).
• Since the 12 month plan is not active yet, I might change it… I’m honestly thinking of going with the unlimited for $30/months if I pre-pay for 12 months. The $30 price is still cheaper than my old provider. I have until 1/4/2022 of next year to change my mind…

I usually don’t get this excited about phone carriers, but this one is a win-win-win combination. I don’t see that much anymore, but it’s my favorite type!

Thanks,

MR (aka Money Reasons)…

More Mint Mobile stuff:

5G coverage (and your area checker option) map with Mint Mobile: https://www.mintmobile.com/coverage/

“I need to transfer my number to Mint Mobile”, instructional video: