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I noticed when the Z Fold8s launched that Verizon was offering some deals on new devices. Interestingly, they're even offering these discounts when you buy the device outright and activate it on Simplicity. They added new deals for the Pixels today.

Current offers:

S25 Edge: $284 off - $815.99 outright, $22.66/mo if choosing to finance for 36 months.

S26: $180 off - $719.99 outright, $19.99/mo if choosing to finance for 36 months.

S26 Ultra: $340 off - $959.99 outright, $26.66/mo if choosing to finance for 36 months.

Z Fold8: $460 off - $1439.99 outright, $39.99/mo if choosing to finance for 36 months.

Z Fold8 Ultra: $420 off - $1679.99 outright, $46.66/mo if choosing to finance for 36 months.

Pixel 11 Pro: $380 off - $839.99 outright, $23.33/mo if choosing to finance for 36 months.

Pixel 11 Pro XL: $340 off - $959.99 outright, $26.66/mo if choosing to finance for 36 months.

Simplicity is also unique in that you aren't fixed to just 36 month financing. You can choose between 12, 24, 36, and 48 months. For a 256GB Pixel 11 Pro XL this means a range of $79.99 for 12 months to $19.99/mo for 48 months. As the device is locked to Verizon until it's paid in full, this gives a lot more flexibility than myPlan. I don't know what happens if you try to pay off the rest of the device to leave early. I would imagine since Verizon is actually discounting the retail price, you wouldn't forfeit anything, but I don't want to assume that either. We will have to wait and see what people report.

If buying outright, you should be eligible to have the device unlocked, which means you can leave any time after you get that done.

We will have to see if Verizon continues this with the new iPhones but with them allowing the option to just pay the discounted full retail price instead of financing, it makes Simplicity pretty competitive. Google wants $1419 for a 512GB Pixel 11 Pro XL while Verizon wants $1079.99 on Simplicity. If you're porting in a number you get the plan for $30 (you may have to fight them for it if you're on a Verizon Value brand as the FAQ on the website says you're eligible but internally employees are being told not to honor it, which means you should be prepared to send Verizon a Notice of Dispute to let them know they can honor it or pay thousands to go to arbitration over it if you're going this route). A year of Simplicity, assuming $7 of taxes and fees, is $444, which when you take into account the price of the phone makes your total $1523.99. That's paying $104.99 more than just buying the phone from Google and you have a year of service included.

That said, US Mobile has a better deal on the 11 Pro XL. The new Pixel 11 Pro XL 512GB is $899 when purchasing a plan and the annual Unlimited Premium is $299, for a total of $1198, which saves you $325.99 over going with Simplicity. You can save another $100 if you don't need Premium and go for Starter instead. Still though, it's crazy to see Verizon coming within striking distance of MVNO offerings and if you plan to finance with Verizon and don't mind being locked until it's paid, it's a good deal.

PS: If you're going to buy a new Pixel 11, make sure you get a 512GB Pro/XL, as Google cut the RAM from 16GB to 12GB on the base Pro models this year and the regular 11 is 12GB no matter the storage configuration.

I banned someone today and tried the purge user tool to purge them but it doesn't appear to have done anything at all.

Is there an easy way to just do it myself? The user doesn't have a ton of post history.

EDIT: For anyone else who has this issue down the line, it was because I attempted the purge from a comment I already removed. I went and found one I didn't remove and the tool worked as it should.

This should be obvious but personal attacks on people that work at or run companies with no foundational basis are unacceptable. They bring nothing positive to the conversation. If you have a problem with your service, great, feel free to post. Leave out the personal attacks on the people who work there. No more leveling accusations like scammer, calling out where they're from, digging into their social media and attacking them based on that, etc. If you have a problem with that person, this is not the place to air that grievance. We have let a lot of things slide under the radar as far as the be respectful rule goes but now we have people leveling scammer accusations without even knowing the product or anything about the person. This is ridiculous.

And now this person is going and disrupting every other wireless subreddit because they got banned.

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So apparently a company having fans is a problem that rises to the level that the CEO should be called a scammer based on that alone. It's not funny. These sorts of comments hurt small business owners and they're also still humans who have feelings. I've seen it with US Mobile here, both with the CEO and the people who work for him, and I've also seen it with the CEO of Lexvor, to give some specific examples (but they're not the only ones). You guys should see the disgusting reports that come in. People are so brazen when they can report anonymously. Enough is enough. If you can't post without attacking someone on a personal level, you will be banned.

Our city subsidizes these so they're everywhere and it would be cool to get to use them. I'm 228 pounds without my clothes on, which puts me around 235 with clothes and a backpack. Their terms say 220 but they have many models and I know that there are scooter models with 265 pound capacities, just curious if any of the Spin models fit that. Like I would probably be fine to ride any of them as long as I'm not trying to jump curbs and crap (which I wouldn't do) but my partner is 250 and would like to ride with me.

With the website and service plan refresh of 5/13/2026 Total Wireless has become plagued with problems.

New customers porting in their beloved numbers have been left without service. Their numbers picked from the previous carrier and no longer working, yet also not working on Total either. DO NOT PORT IN UNTIL THEY GET THIS RESOLVED!

Some existing customers have been unable to log into the website, but can log into the App.

Some existing customers have had new astronomical renewal rates appear in their accounts, usually because of multiple renewals appearing scheduled for the same renewal date.

Some existing customers on post 7/11/2024 Total Wireless plans have lost their promotion 50% off BYOD rate or ByeBye Promotional rates and/or have lost their multi-line discounts with every line set to renew at full fare.

Some existing customer have had all lines in their account gone missing from the My Lines page (previously called Manage My Lines) with no resolution in site. This means you can not unlock your line so that you can port out if you wanted to, and it means you can not renew your plan from the website or app if you wanted to.

The Total Rewards system is a mess with referral points maturing at double the earned amount and pending points removed at double the pending amount leaving folks with negative pending balances. Also new referral codes have appeared in some account rewards page that yield an 'invalid' error message when used.

Existing customers, regardless of legacy Total Wireless, Total by Verizon, or post 7/1/2024 Total Wireless plans are unable to purchase renewal plans with reward points. Legacy customers simply have teh option greyed out on the website and app. Post 7/11/2024 Total Wireless customers only see renewal with reward points offered per line, not the multi-line group rate, and only at the full plan rate, not any multi-line discounted rates. In fact buying a plan with points on post 7/11/2024 rate plans yeilds in the transaction happily going through, your points being deducted, and no plan being added to your account.

BBB and FCC complaints yield call backs that are nothing but lip service, not resulting in solutions but kicking the problem down the road with not estimated completion date or firm call back date. Email to VZValueNOD@verizon.com are not responded to.

There has been no acknowledgement from Total/Tracfone/VerizonValue about these ongoing problems, what is being done about it, and when we should expect things to get resolved.

Anyone can make mistakes, but making a mistake as broad as this, impacting so many customers, and not announcing that there are ongoing issue they are presumably working to resolve, speaks volumes about the credibility of a company and you needs to decide if it is the sort of company you can trust to do business with.

Hope this helps somebody from making a mistake of porting in and loosing their number, or having existing customers refrain from making any changes on their account while Total struggles to fix the problems they created for their customers.

Please post comments describing other issues you may have encountered as a result of the 5/13/2026 website update.

Thank you.

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If you haven’t heard the news, Helium Mobile has been acquired by Noble Mobile, led by Andrew Yang.

First, credit where it’s due. Helium took a real swing at reimagining wireless with a decentralized network powered by customers. That’s the kind of ambition this industry needs more of. Over time, they evolved into a more traditional MVNO, but the willingness to experiment deserves respect.

Noble Mobile, the acquiring company, is bringing its own twist to the market with a “data deductible” model: pay $50/month and earn money back for unused data. It’s an interesting idea and I genuinely love seeing companies challenge industry assumptions.

But when you run the math, even customers who maximize the rebate can end up paying more for a few gigabytes of data than what our customers pay on US Mobile’s Unlimited Starter plan.

Innovation is important. Value matters too.

At US Mobile, we’ve spent years building something different: A best-in-class customer experience. Access to all three major networks on one plan. Integration with Starlink. Industry-leading flexibility. And international features building toward One Global Plan.

All of this has been built with constant feedback from the best customers in the world.

We’re grateful to everyone who keeps pushing the industry forward. If you’re a Helium or Noble customer looking for a plan that simply works — with more choice, more control, and more network flexibility than ever before — we’d love to welcome you to US Mobile.

We’ve put together exclusive offers just for you, only until June 11:
usmobile.com/helium-mobile-plans-alternative 

Just upgraded the Xfinity from 120/24 to 1170/117 today and decided to see what WireGuard looked like.

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I have to say, I'm shocked. When I had fiber I only saw over 1Gbps on the browser proxy extension. This is like 95% of my downstream and 97% of my upstream being available when using WireGuard. Absolutely nuts.

Just got the email today that my AMEX Business Amazon Prime card is going to US Bank today and what the final rewards are going to be. I am not sure if I'm going to keep it. AMEX didn't care one bit about personal spend so it was a nice secondary Amazon card but 99% of any spend I'll put on it will be personal so I'll just axe it now if US Bank is going to hassle me over it.