Unsponsored Review of Mint Mobile: 4 Years Later

[@MultiTelan]

I've been on Mint since...jeez...19? I think? I can't switch. I just can't. After paying $240 a year for service, everyone else is a FRICKIN RIPOFF.

[@gabrielcastaneda9700]

My friend and his partner do the 30 dollar plan for them and the 15 dollar plan for their kids

[@Gabri3lRocha]

Drew I signed up for mint mobile maybe 4 years ago because of your video and have been super happy with it. I might pay for 5 gig for a year for my mom to convince to transition. Some people hate the Haggle of having to switch carriers but my mom is on a budget and this is a no brainer

[@S3XYdriver]

Prepaid plans are so underrated. Paid for a year of mint, never been happier

[@cupidok2768]

is 40gb enough for one month

[@GFK1804]

@@cupidok2768if you have wifi ina house and you don’t use lots of data daily you’ll be straight 👍🏽

[@DailyThingsInLife]

@@cupidok2768 Depends on how often you use your phone outdoor. I barely use 5G and I have the 15GB plan. $22 a month with annual plan

[@darkkforest]

​@@cupidok2768Depends on how much data you use. If you have Wi-Fi everywhere you go, that plan is not even necessary, if you don't and consume a lot of streaming then yeah you should definitely consider that plan.

[@MR-pw2dc]

Visible is best for us in our region. We pay $70 total for two unlimited lines on phones we own outright. It’s very cheap. We pay $35 for our internet and each phone line. It’s great (for us).

[@Jimbonj]

The major carriers no longer waiving activation or upgrade dcc charges, not even for employees as policy but there's always exceptions. This has changed since you last switched.

[@JamesLauricia7]

Correct they don’t waive them anymore. It’s usually $35 per line.

[@BaconFaceMcGee]

Wow. I forgot about them. I’m pretty impressed with their billing and data. I wish AT&T would do something similar.

[@rafael4matos]

Maybe in portugal is different but I dont use 5G on my 15pm because the speed boost is not reliable or noticeable, so i prefer to use 4G and keep a little bit more of battery

[@lol-lo4dt]

I love your skits so much

[@cella630]

I had Mint for a while. However, I must say that if you live in a congested metro area, skip Mint. It becomes unusable in many congested urban environments, because of deprioritization on the T-Mobile network. Otherwise, you should be good.

[@TomBabula]

Yeah I noticed the same when I am in downtown area of my local town, that sometimes speed is barely usable , though I can’t tell if it’s due to weak signal or deprioritization because in many areas of my town except commercial/retail I get only 2 bars except when I was in airport and knew for sure it was deprioritization because I had full bar.

[@cella630]

@@TomBabula well it happens in other congested situations like heavy traffic. I have had T Mobile and now Verizon, and i have none of those issues where it almost becomes unusable.

[@full_metal2452]

Mint Mobile: (You will own nothing and be happy) Next up: :Why Dollar General is our one stop shop for everything:

[@alexhartle]

My Xfinity mobile is $110 for 3 lines and my 400 mbps internet is $10. Seems like a good deal to me

[@NickDaltonYT]

Best skit thus far

[@jbarajasp]

U.S. Mobile is better. Its unlimited plan is $23/m if paid yearly. They let you pick VZW or T-Mobile networks. They have priority data and include international calling with the plans. Way better than mint.

[@TailosiveTech]

Sounds good if you use a ton of data, most don’t

[@nathanross4036]

US mobile has slower speeds than Mint on the same network

[@jbarajasp]

@@nathanross4036 you have not used USM lately, that is clear… They are the same priority as mint on T-Mobile network… and out perform visible on Verizon network

[@jbarajasp]

@@TailosiveTech they also offer 5gb of premium data for $14/m on their light plan.. and $6/m for 1gb…. Also they offer $2/gb top ups… way cheaper than mint 😇.

[@jbarajasp]

@@nathanross4036 they are equal priority, and the offer premium data on Verizon

[@curlytop242923]

Mint mobile,Now my second year plan has gone up in price ? Used to be $ 190.00 plus tax for The year (1st year only ) Second year for the year of coverage is is now 201.00 plus tax ?? So its only $15.00 for the first year of service !!

[@Gabri3lRocha]

Also the mint mobile UI is so simple and practical. It’s a huge reason I’m still with them

[@sunbhattacharjee]

I am so surprised to know how expensive the US carriers are. I am paying $17 a year in India. And getting ~900mbps almost everywhere in Kolkata.

[@Gabri3lRocha]

Wages in India are also way lower

[@imonyahoo87]

And it's close to 40 usd now reaching 50 soon

[@maluminse6013]

Service is comparitively expensive in the US but there's no way any private company in the West could offer cell service for $17/yr without massive government subsidies

[@karenpff2010]

UK here, I'm with Smarty MVNO and pay £5.40/ $6.73 USD per month for unlimited calls/ texts with 5gb of data. For my home router, I have the Unlimited Data plan which comes in at £18/$22 USD a month. IMO we have some brilliant pricing and competition with our networks over here. The Big Four MNOs are quite pricey, but the MVNOs that piggyback off of them are pretty affordable and competitive and there's a bunch to choose from. I'm pretty happy with Smarty, they're reliable, affordable, no hidden charges, WYSIWYG, VfM, and decent coverage of the UK for 4G (and 5G in urban areas.) I always feel the USA are being screwed over, price wise.

[@mikecrabtree8200]

Yah, cell service in the states has always been a rip.

[@keco185]

Mint Mobile was great until it came to leaving them. They are the worst to leave. I spent all day with every form of customer support trying to get a port out pin

[@darkkforest]

I don't know which channel you might have use, but on their website it was easy peasy. I asked the agent for my account and pin number, and after a security question, I had all my info.

[@keco185]

@@darkkforest this was a while ago but I believe I waited hours to get an agent. Pretty sure I tried using the website first.

[@estebanhenriquez3491]

I’ve been with Cricket Wireless for over 6 years paying $60/mo for their Unlimited Plan. However, I’m entertaining moving to Mint Mobile if it means I can cut my bill in half for their $30/mo Unlimited Plan. I just want to know if their service is any good. I reside in Central FL.

[@mikem4432]

T-Mobile owns Mint Mobile.. so.. who chares.. they still suck dropped calls.... hello? eh.. eh.. hello?? shoot dropped again...

[@jazzenberg]

Have you tried getting a newer Sim card? I’ve heard newer Sim cards could potentially speed up priority than older Sim cards.

[@Cumputers]

I switched from AT&T to Verizon 2 year contract so I can not switch again to Mint Mobile sadly.

[@RaraAvis1138]

I'm waiting for sim to arrive tomorrow. I'm really hoping it works for me because I use so little and hate paying for stuff I don't use.

[@HeyNickJ]

I just switched to Mint Mobile both my wife and I line. Her line switched over fine and activated porting in a number. During my port process somehow when they assigned the EM and didn’t have my number on it. Talk with technical support several times had me do all these things that I knew wouldn’t work. Finally, they agreed to re-issue a new eSIM. Little did I know, though it would take them 7:30 PM when we initiated that till noon the next day for them to have a ticket created and somebody press the button send me a new eSIM. that was completely unacceptable. What a horrific experience. Now that I finally got it activated it’s working all right. I just really wish there. Support was better in instances like that. Doesn’t make me have very much confidence in setting up a new phone when it comes out.

[@Denise54321]

I had a similar experience. Switched to Mint yesterday. Spent most of the day stressing that I wasn’t going to be able to keep my number, but it ended up working out. They gave me a temporary number which made me think I had lost my old number. Also had a huge issue with eSIM. Chat tech support was pretty useless. I waited hours for them to send a new eSIM via email and had no service. Finally used my husband’s phone and spoke with a real person who was helpful and immediately sent a new eSIM and then finally all activated and good to go! If anyone is serious about switching just try to be patient with the eSIM process and call them if you have a problem (you’ll have to have another line you can use of course) instead of using their chat feature.

[@frankallen3634]

I pay 15 a month with t mobile and have for quite a while. Live in the woods so if you get a bar with any service you are lucky.

[@jokulhaups309]

I have mint and actually their deprioritized number for unlimited is actually 40 GB . They changed it in Nov of last year in which it was 30

[@wickedlygravitational]

Just switched to Visible after paying off my 13 PM and I love it, if I used less data I would have gone back to Mint

[@cameraman655]

Mint simply ROCKS!

[@FJB827]

I've had mint mobile long enough to see a pattern now. You have very little service at 8:00 a.m. in the morning 1:00 in the afternoon 5:00 p.m. in the afternoon and around 10:00 at night. That's when everybody else is using the data. When you purchase 3 months in advance the first 2 months are mediocre the third month before you re-up you get very good service. I don't like deception like this. Most of the time when I run a speed test it is somewhere down around 2 G service

[@PeterVangAdventures]

What phone do you have?

[@Gabri3lRocha]

Gosh I hope T-Mobile deal doesn’t go through but it almost likely will eventually. For sure they will ruin the whole appeal of mint mobile

[@xChuckNasty88x]

Yea right now i got a new pixel 9 pro XL for 699 and 180 for 12 months.. so got a new phone and a year of service for less then the retail price of the phone anywhere else. Pretty incredible

[@MelissaBillias]

The term you are looking for, with your old devices, is "planned obsolescence"

[@erodriguezbronx]

Their customer support is atrocious to say the least. Lost my phone had to replace with new SIM card and to active that was a nightmare. Couldn’t because the code they text you to activate could not be emailed only texted 🤯. What part of lost phone don’t they get why not have it active because I did order it through their site on my account not worth the headache. It’s like you are applying to the FBI just to validate you.

[@FlashthePreacherGuy]

I have been using Visible for personal phone and mint is used for my work phone. Both do well.

[@sparky6757]

My only two complaints, and they're minor ones: - my phone seems to get throttled at random, for like 30 seconds to a few minutes at a time. Which makes sense, I'm a Mint user on T Mobile's network, of course I'm deprioritized when there's heavy traffic, but makes sense or not that's still a downside - since it's paying by the year, there's no ability to switch your plan if you decide the one you got isn't enough. My year of 5gb has been enough *most* months, but sometimes it isn't, the throttled unlimited speeds aren't good on the 5gb high speed plan, and I do miss when I could do big downloads over cellular or watch HD videos without worrying about my data - and I don't have an opportunity to pay the extra $5/month to bump up my limit until June.

[@robertallan4489]

I suggest you consider Tello which allows you to bump up whenever you want.

[@JamesLauricia7]

Tried to switch to US Mobile twice and they couldn’t get the number transferred over both times I had to get a refund 😅

[@maluminse6013]

Which carrier were you trying to port out of? It took me 5 minutes to port in from Mint.

[@JamesLauricia7]

@@maluminse6013 metro

[@jasond2333]

Its T mobiles fault for slower LTE speeds. They are switching spectrum over to 5g. Quicker then At&t, and Verizon. B71 is mostly on 5g now. Same with the other spectrum they have.

[@minicooper2002]

Mint changed their international roaming system lately. So disappointed ! I am thinking to switch to other carrier...

[@jacksonburger2081]

Same issue on Verizon. Seems like they're slowing down lte just to make "5g" seem faster.

[@katrinabryce]

They are moving their existing bandwidth allocation over from 4g to 5g.

[@jacksonburger2081]

​@@katrinabryce so... Essentially making 4G slower.

[@jcm973]

I saw the complaint with mint and the service not good, slow internet service and horrible customer service , for 15 you gonna get junk service

[@Justmylukc]

now they just have expensive phones

[@halotubb1110]

I just abandoned Sprint/Tmobile after 4 years with them. Porting over was simple. Works just fine, calls, text, and data (for my needs). Wish I left sooner

[@BreadFred3]

Wow! 4 years with Mint... I had Mint on a 3-month promo (Oct 2021 - Jan 2022) after discovering my "mobile-consumer" self and tired of paying $50+ monthly. It wasn't bad. I liked it. But I did a little research and ended with Visible after the 3 month promo was up.

[@darkkforest]

1- Yea Deadpool 3 delivered hard 2- T-Mobile sadly acquired Mint, BUT so far it's still very nice with also few added Scam protection features from T-Mobile. Time will tell

[@Cumputers]

I switched from AT&T to Verizon 2 year contract so I can not switch again to Mint Mobile sadly

[@kunichiwax3]

I used mint mobile for a few months. It was fine, but i ended up switching to vision

[@JoeUnknown-xh6qo]

lol I'm still rocking the S9+ I've thought about upgrading but don't wanna spend the $$$$. Doing my research from Metro to Mint

[@aaZhan]

Renewed with Mint for the 5th year! Really happy about the service and would highly recommend them for anyone looking for saving on phone plans!

[@hmike4]

Can anyone here talk to the 12 month 16gb data through ATT prepaid? I’ve been using that service for a few years. $300 for 12 months (I.e $25/month). Just trying to figure out if it’s worth hopping over to Mint. Thanks in advance!

[@darlenepaul2918]

I have 20 gb a month .I believe it's deprioritized at 30 gb. I pay only $15 a month. I got it on a buy 3 months get 3 months free for $89. So only $180 a year for 20 gb a month.Its a great deal and works great!

[@michaelrobb9708]

On my 3rd month of Mint, my data speed is slower, constant problems, less reliable overall. My 8 plus still has 3D Touch, LTE, and Touch ID, why would I get a iPhone 5G. I hope Straight Talk accepts me back.

[@TomBabula]

Some older phones lack newer 4Glte bands that were added after their release, so that can hurt you even more on top of loosing to 5g shift spectrum reallocation/ lack of access to 5g.

[@kinkykylie7210]

How come the prices of data be so high in the us? In Danmark you can get unlimited data for just 19 usd, and that is 1000 gb before you get deprioritized

[@TailosiveTech]

More people that travel a lot further. Requires more towers and more infrastructure

[@robertallan4489]

I believe I read somewhere that Mint is now owned by Verizon. Is iths oorrect? If so has it switched to Verizon towers?

[@TailosiveTech]

That’s not true at all

[@COgirl394]

T-Mobile bought Mint Mobile.

[@sebconscious842]

Mint good 👍🏿🗿

[@papa_woody]

I remember the days when they were Mint Sim.

[@Karim-vt1xb]

The new Mint mobile international roaming plans are a real rip off! $10 for a day for 1GB and 60 mins !! I'm currently in France and you can get a full month of unlimited calls and 150 GB of data with Syma, for that price. Similarly, you can get much cheaper plans in other countries I've been to recently such as China and Malaysia. So if you travel abroad regularly, take this into account and forget about Mint Mobile, it's a pain!

[@lol-lo4dt]

First

[@JamesLauricia7]

1st comment on your comment 😅

[@Shumittsu]

I’m surprised how expensive data still is in the US. Even here in Germany you get at least 1GB per €

[@UnSlayd]

That’s expensive… 25$ unlimited data @ visible

[@trevyn95]

Drew I’ve been on Mint for almost 5 years now and zero issues, it works great and it’s cheap, not changing anytime soon.

[@britchin]

the least interesting tech topic

[@XCampX]

Visible is way better

[@TomBabula]

Why?

[@eladnudd1895]

😮 with mint mobil, customers are the deprioritized, dropped calls over and over, also must keep wifi on because it's trying to connect mostly through wifi networks instead of cell towers networks, roaming! Forget it!, connectivity speed? Again, customers will be deprioritized. Bandwidth, if your a gamer, forget it, Cricket, boost moble, patriot, ect, piggy back on the main carriers, bit all are deprioritized. Slow speed, bump off, drop calls hardly any roaming, you do not get top service. But they are better then no phone, I can afford to pay for reliability, my work realize on so. Im an ex boost-moble, and mint-mobil customer.