Mint Mobile Review: THIS is why people eventually Leave!
2024 ж. 14 Мам.
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Hey guys, this is my experience with Mint Mobile after being with the service for 3 years. The pro's and the cons
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In case the video title is confusing anyone, people leave the other carriers and switch TO Mint Mobile.
The title is misleading then.
You can tell all this when in the first few seconds he says " use my affiliate link "
Should be more like “this is why people switch to Mint Mobile”
I've been on Mint for 3 months and am sold. Thoughh I'm rarely off wifi I did notice the horrible youtube video. I have a VPN for Home use but wasn't aware that would fix this issue for my cell. Thsnks for the info.
Sure thing, glad to help and yeah VPN's are a so helpful with that. 👍🏾
is that on the unlimited plan too that the video quality is downgraded?
@@b1gkeeshyes ditto the question
@@evertonsway Which pre-paid service is best for folks who don't have credit cards to pay online?
I’m pretty naive when it comes to how the 5g 4g stuff works I’m about to get the unlimited plan and yes I know most people don’t need it but I do with my work will my speeds be slowed down from 5g to 3g after a certain amount of data usage even tho it’s unlimited
And here I am with 12 days left on my 15gb/month plan with 15gb remaining. But I have Visible+ as my cellular data provider. I can switch back and forth. (I have ATT on my work phone to round out my coverage options.) I've been using Mint Mobile since Aug or Sep 2023. Did the 3 months unlimited for $45 and their recommendation was the 15gb/month. I did my "test drive" on an old iPhone 7 for the first month and then an iPhone 13 Pro to try the 5G coverage before getting my iPhone 15 Pro. You make an excellent point about expensive to add on data. For the costs they charge, you could get a second eSIM on something like Visible for $25/month and have a different carrier and another bucket of data to draw from. For under $50/month one could have two providers and two buckets of data. If one provider has issues or an outage, you are probably covered by the other one. I only use one phone number. I'm not even sure I know my Visible+ number, LOL. I set it's ring to silent.
Genius! You just give me a strategy with the two different carriers
Lol about your other phone set on silent and not knowing the number. Thanks for the info enjoyed reading your comment.
Does this work if well if you're an uber driver?
Do you have to change the sim card?
What do you think about the Mint 55+ plan?
I signed up for a year to mint and the cell signal is virtually non existent i get many dropped calls and no service appearing , to say i regret sibning for a year is a huge Understatement!!!!!
They have a 7 day buyers remorse. Definitely take advantage if it doesn't work in your location
continued using after the 7-day trial...after I purchased the 3 month unlimted plan...sim card became deffective...currently getting LTE signal or no network coverage at all...customer service did not resolve the issue...should have tried a different network
I like paying one time too. Is also why I do every six months for car insurance
I love it
Save even more on your auto policy if you're good with paying by the year.
@@evertonsway I did not think I would but if you just throw 15 bucks a month into a little savings account on a digital wallet when the 6 months rolls around you have the next payment if you're scraping for cash or dont think you'll have it.
Very good video! Explained it. What is the unnecessary plan above the unlimited?
The unnecessary plan gives you 60gb of data, 20gb of that can be used for hotspot
Couple of questions… Could you explain on why you’d need the vpn service? Could you explain the recovery fees? Great video I just don’t understand the vpn extra expense. I’m researching to see what would be best for me. Really like the community in the comments as well vert helpful
Hey! For the VPN, it’s primarily to hide your internet activity. Carriers sometimes slow connection on media sites (KZhead, Netflix, Hulu, etc.) if you use a vpn, your carrier cant put those limits in place. The recovery fees are not included in the plan although there is a way to get around it if you pay for your plan with referral credits. They are also relatively low in cost.
Do a video on visible if you haven’t already, I’m curious to know which one to pick between the two
I've done a video on visible on the channel. Feel free to check it out
I got visible on the east coast and its been pretty good with 5g but it does switch back and forth but its been great on my s23 ultra. I had 5g even out in the middle of the deep woods in idaho. I also got tmobile home internet, now that thing is always iffy from bottle neck speed of 20 mbps to 250 mbps. Mint might be a fall back if visible goes away some day.
Love that you have that real of experience for different carriers. I was looking at getting T-Mobile Internet. It's not available at my location yet but glad to know your experience with it
@@evertonsway streight talk has home internet but i dont know if its worth the trouble since it has caps. Verizon is another home internet to check out.
Im looking to camp in my car for 4 months in nyc. Is visible truly unlimited?
Hey question how much data do you get before you’re throttled on unlimited? I’m US cellular right now and I’m paying 180.00 a month for two phones and you get 101gb of data before you’re throttled . I’m seeing T-Mobile only gives you get only 50GB , ATT you only get 50gb, Verizon only gives you 30gb , and Tello only gives you 30gb . If I want 250gb high speed data could mint give me that ?
40Gb of data on their Unlimited Plan then it’s slowed down, the highest they offer is a plan called Unnecessary plan which gives 60GB
Can you add Unnecessary plan to one line and not another if you are doing a family option with someone who doesnt require as much data?@@evertonsway
Thanks. How do i check the data I use presently, from Straight Talk ($35)
Most phones have a feature to measure how much data you use. Reset it on the first of a month and then look at it on the last day of the month. Maybe do that for two or three months to get an average. Looking at my phone, I've used 49GB since 22 September, so I'm not a power user by any stretch. That's like 12GB/month give or take. You would have to check with your phone maker (Apple or Android) to see how to reset it for your device. If on an iPhone it's Settings -> Cellular and at the bottom of the dialog you can turn on Cellular Usage Statistics as well as reset them. Near the top, you can see Cellular Data and see how much you've used for the current period, which will be since the last time you reset the stats. If you already have months and months of data, just do the math. I'm sure Android offers the same, but I cannot tell you how as I don't have an Android phone. There are probably KZhead videos for both iOS and Android.
Can you answer this question ? I just bought the 20GB plan. I mostly use data when I’m driving with GPS about 20 to 30 hours a month. Will my GPS be interrupted do you think? I rely on it.
So GPS data is very low usage. I doubt 30hrs GPS would use 5gb of data. So I think you are more than good with the 20gb plan. If you were to exceed it, the mint mobile service after you use the allotted is enough to use GPS, maybe not a lot else but gps will work regardless
@@evertonsway. Really appreciate your reply. Have a nice day.
You as well!
Good info. Thanks.
Welcome bro!
Hello Everton! Can you tether with Mint Mobile? In other words, can I connect my laptop from my phone by simply using the mint phone WiFi's username and password?
Yes you can, you can use all of your plans data for tethering except the unlimited and unnecessary plans
@@evertonsway Thank you!
Communication is and interesting journey....I interpreted Mint mobile stealing data as, personal phone data that we store on our tech, not data/streaming-online usage. I just switched to Mint from Ting for the unlimited pricing. It's been about 28 hours and I've had some issues with Mint already with not receiving SMS/MMS or being shockingly slow. But I anticipated some hurdles during the transfer of service. Ting does have more areas of connectivity for me over Mint. Which is strange considering Ting and Mint both use T-Mobile towers. I also know that switching to LTE over 5G/5G auto gives me a stronger signal overall at times. Is it based upon usage surges? If thousands of Mint users are using a lot of data doesn't that effect the speed available. Does anyone know if the Mint app has daily graph or measurement showing slow and peak hour collective usage. It could be helpful in strategizing the best time, or use case to get the most out of the connectivity. Thanks for the video and I wish everyone well!
I had Mint for 2 years. They got bought by T-Mobile and my service just recently started going down. I don’t have 5G too much mostly LTE so I just switched to Metro by T-Mobile now I have 5G UC so much faster.
The purchase hasn't gone through yet. If Metro by T-Mobile is better, then that's definitely good you have a better solution. Mint for me has remained relatively same.
Do they slow KZhead/video services on ANY plan or only on the unlimited plan after you've hit the 40GB? SO if I get the 5GB plan, but only use like 3GB a month, would my KZhead videos still be downgraded to 480p? Thanks
All plans will optimize down to 480p unfortunately. But a VPN solves that. Check out Google One-cheap and I pay for it with Google Rewards surveys
@@evertonsway Sounds good, I already have Google one, but I just read they are shutting down the VPN, but I also have PIA VPN so should be able to do something with that, appreciate the reply!
I just read that after your post. Sigh another google feature bites the dust
Also.. ? Seems may not be switching back to wifi automatically? Therefore using more cellular?🤔
No signals (4g) and too mmbad 5g. No one responding. But same expected from other vendors
Give Tello a shot, their plans are very customizable and your data will roll over if you renew your plan before the due date.
Thank you. I'm shopping around and Tello seems to be the only provider that has a cheap option for people who don't need data for a smartphone and don't want to pay for more minutes than they need. 🤔 Very customizable.
Did not know about the data rollover.
We've had problems with Tello. Me, my mom and sister moved from Cricket for cheaper/customizable plans. Two separate months my mom's phone disconnected from Wi-fi and accidently used up her data at home. Not Tello's fault by any means, but when her data was gone, it was GONE. Not slowed down, just no internet AT ALL without Wi-fi. The 1st time this happened they also cut off her text messaging even though its supposed to be unlimited. She could literally only make phone calls for 3 weeks. We've also had problems with calls connecting. Not dropping, just connecting. Text messaging is also very un-reliable. I'll text my sister when I get off work, asking if she wants me to pick something up for supper, with no response, because she won't get my text. Since I know this happens so often now, I'll call her. Then the call won't f*cking connect. So, I'll drive home and magically when I walk through the door, her phone goes off, finally receiving my text. The first couple of months, we didn't have any issues, but then all of these came about. I'm just sick of it, which is why I'm thinking about Mint Mobile.
Mint also charges an extra 'recovery fee' that other providers don't. Their advertised plan does not include the recovery fee. Makes the $75 fee for three months actually cost $91.
Hey yeah they do. I hate fees. The recovery fee is $6.86 for 3 months for the $75 5gb plan
@@evertonswayall networks charge recovery fee. No customer likes fees. Those Fees are there with another name. Thats the trick.
Major carriers charge a lot more fees.
But other no-contract carriers (like Cricket or Visible) don't. When they advertise a plan is $30 per month, it's $30 per month.
@PsychoPhil42 Have you tried cricket and that other one you mentioned? How are they? We're paying almost $200 a month for 2 phones. We're so broke. I've had to turn off satellite, get on gov programs, call and call for help to pay utilities, etc. Husband worked at Schwan's for 24 years, and diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2018 and it's been exhausting and our soul's need big solace and help. I've always been the advocate for others and I'm too tired now, no energy. So now I need one, because my husband still needs help... it doesn't end.
So I may go with either T-Mobile or AT&T phone carrier instead.
You gotta make the best choice for you!
What about getting phone insurance through mint?
DONT DO THE INSURANCE FROM MINT!! it’s awful… that’s the only negative from mint! I had to switch to Apple care. Other the. That MINT IS AMAZING!!
@@teddyriefke4740 Buy a phone you can afford to replace. Insurance on a phone that MIGHT be expected to work for 5 years is a terrible investment. Put $10 a month into a piggy bank add $150 to that stash when you need a new phone and insure yourself
Insurance for a phone is a scam no matter who you get it through. The price is never worth it.
@@andrewr7982 I'd rather spend a couple hundred bucks to replace my phone than have to buy a whole new $1300 phone
@@andrewr7982all insurance is a scam! Unless someone actually has special needs or circumstances. Government requiring it is overstep and more double taxation w/o representation, but We should be Use to that by now....
I use my gps for driving and stuff will that hurt my phone data when using it for gps
If you use offline maps then no usage of data but also map media uses very data in general
@@evertonsway thanks
maps uses very little data
@@JEK oh ok
The commercials are only to Target new customers if you are a customer and you've had it for 3 months now you pay full price that $15 is just to get you in the door bud
I had mint mobile but I need unlimited data so now I have metro and my speed stays about half of the speed of T-Mobile premium data
We don't have 3g anymore so is it 2g speeds?
They don’t use 3g towers, it’s the equivalent of 3g speeds
I had ATT for many, many years. It was pretty good till maybe 3-4 years ago. It got shit st work. I work in a factory with metal building. And I'm rural on KY and it even started being bad at home. Lot of people around me had Verizon and got because they would work in very rural spots. I switched over. It was amazing but only able to do unlimited. But more expensive
Sounds lame too
It's beyond insane to me, it's 2024, and we're still talking about limited/unlimited plans. It should be unlimited by default, it costs virtually nothing to send data.
I wonder if the data is good for rideshare drivers? 🤔
It's actually great! The midband data penetratea through buildings better. So parking garages and other places with building structures it works EXCELLENTLY!
Ppl need to realize that "stealing" data might just be you using speedtest apps to check your mobile speed. 500mbps speed test for 30seconds is gonna take a huge chunk out of your data.
That's a valid point!
That's what happened to me on seven day trail. But I gave them another chance and loved them. The only thing I don't like I can't use built in visual voice mail on my Nokia XR 21. But like pixels the mail is dependent on carrier
I had Mint Mobile and loved it. I only changed to AT&T cause I moved to a different state.
It's a cool service if the coverage works out
Yoo bro I need your help with something I want to buy airtime for my bro using mint mobile but what am seeing is T mobile
T Mobile bought Mint last year. Mint hasn't changed, so far. I just renewed for 2024. Same price for last 3-4 yrs.
@@kenjordan5750 The deal was announced last year, but the FCC just approved the sale.
I have a question about the esim , so every time I get a new phone, I have to get a new number??
With eSIM you keep the number the sim is digital but you keep your #
@@evertonsway ok and then so if I switch from e sim to physical that dosnt change the number Right also?
@@thaguy7732 you can still keep your number if you switch from esim to physical sim. I did it and kept my number.
I have been with Mint Mobile for 5 years now and I am not about to change carriers unless T-Mobile screws it up.
I doubt T-Mobile will make it worse. It's already gotten better!
That’s not the best way to test if they are stealing your data. If the tablet is broken they have no data to access. Also your devices use data in the background while your phone is on. Basically all apps use data to send you random notifications and harvest data. So I wouldn’t say people are getting data stolen. But not fully understanding how smart devices have to always be connected to the internet to give you all the features you enjoy. Which will use up your data.
What ive noticed with mint is it constantly disconects service when you have plenty of high speed data but once you run out and get slower service it never randomly disconnects. Thinking the better option is U.S cellular. Mint uses t mobile towers that are not strong in my area. The solution mint staff says is to buy more data😂. Rather moot point if the service is poor.
Wow, give them more $ for service that not performing well in your area. Wow. Yeah I always test drive a service before I commit nowadays. All about location!
Ive been with mint for going on 4 or 5 years now. The service is great. I never run out of data on my 15gb plan. And about the only place i dont get solid 5g coverage is in the bathroom stall at my work 😂
That's a wild place to be trying to use 5G 😂
Cannot even get a hold of a person there and every time my phone in I get a whole bunch of medical crap sales pitches sending my way that I can't get past I'm not going back with them that's it
1GB for $10 extra a month? How do you run out of unlimited?
Unlimited for Mint is 40gb and Mint did update advising for $15 you get 5gb and for $20 you get 10gb additional
Cricket is stealing data HEAVY, I'm about to switch.
Yesssss that’s why I’m leaving
very good review. thank you
Very Welcome!
So you have to pay 3 months ahead?
Minimum. They only sell plans in bulk
I thought after the initial three months I could sign up monthly as long as it was automatic with my debit card on their App?
@@lanceburke6236 Three months, six months, or one year renewals. You can't do just one month with Mint, automatic renewal or not.
The quality of the product connection and overall speed. Not that good. I am returning back to Cricket.. the moral of this story, You get what you pay for. ⚡️⚡️
Cricket sucks in my area. Used to be great. But than went bad. Apparently they only have one tower now up here.
I'm using it for now cuz quite frankly it's cheap. But for my area, the internet doesn't work in a lot of places. But where I live, we are mostly surrounded by Verizon towers, so that's why.
Yeah location is so important! Have you looked into Visible? It’s a great deal and you don’t have to bulk pay
if you use free wifi hotspots at the coffee shops and airports etc. then definitely use a vpn as there are some fake hotspots that prey on people.
From Mint Mobile CSR March 11, 2024 "I'm sorry to say, just had checked with the technical team that there is a changes in the visual voicemal that now mint is supported only in the apple phones and its not supporting for the android & google phone."
I use an app called "My Visual Voicemail"-by T-Mobile USA in the playstore, on my Galaxy s23 and it works for me
7:06 I'm happy with 360p or 480p... 👀
Then this is PERFECT or you
Don’t you use WiFi tho?
I do use WiFi sometimes
Worst carrier ever. It's my 4th month with them and the service is terrible. I live in NYC and the signal is poor all the time. I keep turning plane mode on and off between 10 and 20 times a day for make it work. Contacted them twice. Told me to do this and that, but never solved the problems. I can't use zelle neither. At my bank they told me it's because of my carrier (mint). Too bad because i enjoy the branding with the green fox...
Wow I’m sorry that’s occurring. I know when you transfer carriers you sometimes have to reregister Zelle but after that it should work. I use Zelle as well with mint. I do think the service in your location does suffer. I would definitely look at changing carriers if the service is that bad.
Just switched to US Mobile. Transferred 3 lines, very pleased.
Oh ok, did you got with WARP or GSM 5G?
Verizon works better in my area so I went with the warp 5g @@evertonsway
Verizon works better in my area so I went with the warp 5g.
Rick James!
Since the merge i never have service on mint
That sucks! The buy-out hasn't officially taken place yet though
@@evertonsway no, what I have noticed is when I am in congested locations now. I have no data service practically I have nothing and I haven't even used up all my data to even to beat de prioritized
I noticed that as well! Same situation! My data is practically unusable when I am in a high traffic area. They really need prioritized data! I'm glad you said that I thought it was local to where I am.
if you travel overseas Mint's roaming is bullshit. i paid twenty bucks, it worked for exactly five cents (basically connected then immediately disconnected and never reconnected) putting me in some really fukced up situations, including in alaska!! (almost stranded in portugal and almost stuck at the alaska airport and had to borrow a stranger's phone). i called to get my money back and they wouldn't even credit it to my account because they said five cents got used (as if it's fuckin milk i opened and tried to return SMFH). it's been alright otherwise but i was put in such precarious situations in places i didn't know anybody at times when i seriously could've been stuck overnight, i pretty much hate em.
5:50 customer service in general is... 🤷🏿♂️ 😂
You're not lying 😂
I think telling people that there's an unlimited plan been telling them once they reached 20,000 no longer unlimited is false advertisement that's what I think
It's unlimited when it comes to slower speeds. That's how they hook customers. Because they truly think it's unlimited high speed data
It's unlimited when it comes to slower speeds. That's how they hook customers. Because they truly think it's unlimited high speed data
It's unlimited when it comes to slower speeds. That's how they hook customers. Because they truly think it's unlimited high speed data
Mint mobile is xlnt! Coverage everywhere. They don't steal data. Customer for 3-4 yrs. I buy an unlocked Moto phone from Amazon and just switch the Sim card. EZ
They make it so easy
@@evertonsway I just ported my landline over to Mint last week. Saved $70/mo. Was paying $43 for local and $43 for long distance on the landline. The only service I lost was ability to fax. Now I scan the doc and attach the jpg to an email, instead.
Mint was just hacked recently. Im glad i didn't get it.
Yeah they did. Thankfully no socials or non public information was exposed. only name phone email and IMEI was exposed. A lot of companies have suffered some form of a breach
@@evertonswayyes IMEI. If you ever give out your IMEI or if someone has it, they can easily remote hack you just by having it and have access to your phone.
They can track you, but they can't do much else. They can attempt to upgrade but they'd have to have an abundance of additional information to attempt to execute a sim swap etc., but just to be clear, they can't hack your device. Control it in any way etc
$10 for ONE additional GB of usable data??? GTFOOH
Don't do it they get kicked back for talking good about the cell phone service the cell phone service is good for calling but the unlimited plan is not unlimited the unlimited plan data slows down to 2G after 40 gigabytes
Well this comment needs so much correction, so already disclosed I'm an affiliate of mint, so yeah... Secondly the plan explicitly states unlimited gives 40gb of high speed data and then slows down to 3g speeds (not 2g) and fyi, a lot of carriers reduce speed after a certain allotment. But thanks for the comment!
They use T-Mobile's Network so it's not that good
Mine works amazing
If I had to have a tmobile based carrier, it would be Tello, because I wouldn't need to buy 1 year worth of service to get a good price. But then why Tello when US Mobile exists.
Thumb says "TRASH" and "THIS is why people eventually leave" but conclusion says mint has very good service overall. Pure clickbait 👎
It’s a captivating title and thumbnail … notice the “?!” In the thumbnail…punctuation matters 😂
Mint runs on tmobile, all i needed to know. Tmobile wont even attempt to offer decent service, they'll have whole regions out for hours.
And att towers
Lies
Mint mobile is garbage
(In your experience), gotta add that disclaimer
Mint Mobile home internet data is the slowest I've ever experienced but not as bad as Visible, which should be called INVISIBLE. I use the 3 month plan for phone usage but purchased a 29.00 home internet service from another service and still save more than the other carriers.
Yeah this shit is good aslong as you NEVER GO OVER DATAA HAHA THEY ARE DOING THAT SHIT ON PURPOSE BUT IF U AWARE OF IT U GET A NICE BANG FOR UR BUCK
The right plan will work wonders!
Doing what shit? Mint is not for data beasts simple as that. I work from home so the 5gb plan is more than enough for me. Even if I needed more data would have a different service
I use wifi calling while at home. Saves data for grocery store, vacation, etc.
Great job, good explanation
Thank you!