[Novalug] OT - Anybody using TING cell service?

Christopher Jones christopher.donald.jones@gmail.com
Sat Aug 3 18:55:08 EDT 2013


Thanks for the report.

Also

Probable LAS fan detected :)


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver@gmail.com>wrote:

> I'd report back after a while on my use of TING cell service.   My bill
> cycle ends on Tuesday and our charges this month minus the taxes and
> Obamaphone forced charges on us will be about $65.00 instead of the more
> than $120.00 a month we were paying for 2 phones.   We did go over our
> usual less than 500 minutes because we had to go back to Ohio to bury my
> father in law at the end of July but its still $35 for 1000 combined
> minutes where we both had 500 each with Sprint and my wife's share was
> about 650 this time and sharing was the better deal.
>
> TING has worked everywhere Sprint has and its been a good easy cutover
> without issues and more importantly I was able to switch her over without
> her even knowing because they swapped it over so fast. I just had to grab
> her phone out of her purse and reset it once the sent me email it was done
> and was swapped within about 4hours.  And I never had to call and speak to
> a soul or sit on hold.
>
> I've beem very happy. As a former Sprint employee they were even dickng me
> around with charges when I was on a discounted plan and TING is still a
> better bargain.
> On Jul 7, 2013 10:20 AM, "Wayne Dernoncourt" <wayned@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> My wife is looking for a new phone.  I'm trying to convince her to try
>> Ting and other VNO's.  I'd like to hear about your experiences.
>>
>> This clown speaks for himself
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2013, at 5:51 PM, "Miles D. Oliver" <miles.d.oliver@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Well,
>>
>> Signed up, dropped Sprint. Transition over was easy without having to
>> call Sprint to drop and was handled via email.   Ting uses Sprints Network
>> so I should have the same coverage i've had for years.
>>
>> If anyone is interested I'll supply some information after a few weeks on
>> how its working out with Ting.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:33 AM, greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I used Virgin (resells Sprint) for my MiFi a few years back and it was
>>> good. Not Ting, but a reseller. IF you get service, it should be fine. The
>>> issue comes in IF you don't service (I expect) since Ting can't do
>>> anything, they don't own (just resell) the infrastructure.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Miles D. Oliver <
>>> miles.d.oliver@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anybody out there using 'Ting' ??
>>>>
>>>> Even with my 'former employee' perks from Sprint we're still getting
>>>> hit for more than $120 a month for the service.  I have to buy 500 minutes
>>>> a month for my wife and now that she is retired she barely uses 100 mins
>>>> and Spring hits us up with an additional $10 a month for 4G service.
>>>>
>>>> According to the Ting website I could get the same services for about
>>>> $40 a month for BOTH our phones combined 500 minutes which should suit us
>>>> fine.. Ting uses Sprints infrastructure so I shouldn't have coverage issues.
>>>>
>>>> I've started moving my phone over and am now waiting on service
>>>> activation but wondered if anybody else is using them?
>>>>
>>>> Whats been your experience?
>>>>
>>>>
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