FreedomPop phone service

[silvarios]

FreedomPop announces phone service.

• Free: 200 Voice Minutes, 500 Texts, 500MB 4G/3G Data.
  
• $7.99: 500 Voice Minutes, Unlimited Texts, 500MB 4G/3G Data.
  
• $10.99: Unlimited Voice Minutes, Unlimited Texts, 500MB 4G/3G Data
  

Service is VOIP over Sprint EVDO or WiMAX. One phone available at launch, HTC Evo Design 4G, which costs $99. Seems interesting.

[silvarios]

Who's the first MacResourcer going to bite?

I doubt I'll switch since I just upgraded all three of my lines with new phones. To be fair, my old Nokia e72 went to my mom, so not really a new phone in that case. My partner got the Huawei Prism II I just bought a couple months back since it can't tether without a third party app (limited to USB tethering with PdaNet+). Leaves me with a "new to me" Xperia ION that does tether natively (thank goodness) and is a pretty solid phone all things considered. Unfortunately, non of those fine devices will ever hope to be compatible with Sprint's CDMA, WiMAX, or LTE networks. Alas, phones just don't work that way.

Which leaves me in a quandary. I pay $125 for unlimited everything for three lines. FreedomPop gives me unlimited calling/text and 500MB per line for $33/month plus any fees/taxes. Pretty big difference in price. Then again, switching will incur a $300 up front expenditure that eats into the savings for the first three months. Hmmmm…

[Bill in NC]

I signed up for the free plan (+$107 for the phone)

Since I already use Clear I knew we had decent WiMax coverage here.

[clay]

I'd sign up for it in a heartbeat if we had coverage here.

[kj4btkljv]

clay wrote:
I'd sign up for it in a heartbeat if we had coverage here.

Where do you find the coverage map, anybody know?

Jeff

[timg]

Are the phones only good in 4G WiMax areas?

My house is on the edge of a WiMax coverage, and most of where I would want
to use it is 3G coverage only.

[timg]

kj4btkljv wrote:
[quote=clay]
I'd sign up for it in a heartbeat if we had coverage here.

Where do you find the coverage map, anybody know?

Jeff
you can look here: https://www.freedompop.com/coverage.htm

[silvarios]

clay wrote:
I'd sign up for it in a heartbeat if we had coverage here.

You don't have Sprint CDMA coverage nor WiMAX?

[silvarios]

timg wrote:
Are the phones only good in 4G WiMax areas?

My house is on the edge of a WiMax coverage, and most of where I would want
to use it is 3G coverage only.

Supposed to work with Sprint CDMA as well. How well VOIP will work with EVDO speeds remains to be seen, but it could work in theory.

[clay]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=clay]
I'd sign up for it in a heartbeat if we had coverage here.

You don't have Sprint CDMA coverage nor WiMAX?
hmmm... I just assumed since it's never shown me coverage for any of their internet options that phone wouldn't work for me. they let me add the phone/plan to a cart after inputting my address, so maybe I'm good?