r/NoContract

Edit: Thanks a lot for all the helpful and insightful replies. I truly appreciate it. I upvoted all of you 🙏

I'm in the UK and I need to change my mobile plan and I saw a very good deal on the money saving expert website but the mobile plan uses esim.

I want to know the pros and cons of this as I never relied on esim as the main mobile sim, I've only used esim once for a one week trip. I also rely on using the phone as a hotspot a lot for work.

The esim deal is provided by idmobile that uses the Three network

Looking for unlimited data w/hotspot that can be used for gaming, listening to spotify, youtube etc at once for my PC. Currently on T-Mobile Go5G plan. I've heard about Visible, but heard they can terminate you for using it as a replacement for home internet. I only plan to use the hotspot maybe 20-30 hours/week. Any recommendations?

Ergen acquires MobileX

Most of the carriers I am looking at lock you to one network, but a couple let you choose at signup and I cannot work out how to make that call sensibly. Asking the neighbours seems to be the standard advice and every one of them has told me a different network is fine. The coverage maps all claim everything everywhere. For those of you who have picked, what did you actually go on, and did you get it right?

I got my Sim in the mail yesterday and followed the instructions and it wouldn't work.

I called today and waited 2 hours on hold and they told me my Sim was active but when I tried changing the APN settings it wouldn't work. Then they cut me off and I couldn't get support again.

For some reason I decided to move my Sim card to a different slot and it actually worked to a degree. I can text and call but no data. I also tried to change the APN settings and it still didn't help.

Will it take longer for the data to come back? I think I'll try to call tomorrow early and see if they can help.

if anyone has any advice it would be appreciated. I have been thinking about porting out if this doesn't work fully soon.

Thanks!

I need to simulate backup calling when i go to india and plan to use secondary lines data for primary line calling. i can not change network selection for primary line no matter what i do - on either iphone 15 or pixel 9a
how do i go about? I tried pixel IMS but i am unable to simulate this in the US as I can not change network selection for primary line

Just wanted to update in case someone is in the same boat.

TL;DR: After losing service on G2G Mobile on 8/11 right after renewing my annual plan, I reached customer support after a 2-hour wait. They submitted an eSIM tech support ticket and said they'd mail a pSIM. The next morning, I manually ordered the free pSIM through my account portal, and a few hours later received the eSIM activation email. Converting to eSIM took about 5 minutes and fully restored my voice and data.

I lost service completely without warning on my g2g mobile $60/annual plan.

I had just renewed at the beginning of August, so I did not want to jump ship and port out fearing that I'd lose out on the service I had just paid for.

I lost service about a week ago 08/11/2026.
I called the 800 number multiple times, waited as long as 2hrs 45min before giving up.
Yesterday (08/17/2026) I called after work, probably around 5:45PM CST.

After about 2 hours someone answered. They were very nice and I told them I'd like service restored ASAP. I said my phone had a pSIM, but that it was capable of doing eSIM so if that would expedite getting service back then I'd like to switch to eSIM.

She told me the best she could do was generate a service ticket with tech support to process the eSIM change request and that in the mean time she'd send me a pSIM in the mail.

She said I could activate whichever one became available to me first or whichever my preference was.

She was honest with me and told me that she could not give me a timeline for when the eSIM would be available, but she told me to check the next day on my account.

I checked my account page this morning and it gave me the option to ORDER a pSIM with no mention of the service agent ordering me one already, so I proceeded to order it. It was just a simple confirmation of my address and selecting shipping tier, the slowest being free, the fastest being $20. I opt'd for the free shipping and went about my day.

I got an email a few hours later telling me my phone was ready to activate with eSIM.

I was busy so when I got home today around 7PM I started the process of activating the eSIM.

It took about 5 minutes for data and voice to work completely. As of now it's working completely normally on an iphone SE 3rd gen.

I'm assuming I'm still going to be sent a pSIM, but I will just hold onto that incase I downgrade to a dumb phone or an older iphone.

Good luck to all the people like me who held out for g2g to clean up this mess. I'm hoping it's smooth sailing moving forward.

I can see on the website the admin section is on. But still not able to download the QR or able to port out of Bad2Go. It gives me error while getting QR. New esim free of charge does the same. Does anyone have same issue.

Anyone having issues with Verizon? My friend on US Mobile Warp (Verizon network) is unable to make or receive calls, and looks like quite a few people are having problems according to Down Detector.

Hey all,
Recently i upgraded to the iOS 27 beta while on USMobile and have run into an issue i’m wondering if anyone else is experiencing. the iOS27 beta seems
to have enabled some 5g SA features, but since USMobile doesn’t have the provisioning for the IMS set up correctly (i’m assuming), i lose access to RCS and SMS whenever i’m on band n41 SA. If it drops back to NSA it works again. The problem is, there’s no toggle in the carrier profile to stop the SA connection. They say that 5g SA currently isn’t supported, which is fine, but why am i receiving an SA connection, then?

If anyone would like to confirm this behavior for me, dial 3001#12345# surrounded by 2 * and then when connected to SA 5g band check IMS under About in settings.

If anyone has any advice, i’d appreciate it!!

Thank you

Coming very soon. Hopefully with much needed improvements.

https://prontomobile.com/help/august-2026-esim-upgrade-instructions

Good day everyone!!! Been with Visible for over 3 years now. On annual. Love it. However I couldn’t get the promos new customers get. So I took a leap… ported to Tello for $9.00 then ported back to Visible and used the same email but added @googlemail.com since I have Gmail. It worked so I didn’t have to use another email. Yay!!! So for example if you use Gmail and your email is johndoe@gmail.com you would do johndoe@googlemail.com and it still gets delivered.

It’s so hard to beat $225 a year. It is totally worth the time as you save $225. This looking to take advantage I would recommend it.

There are some hoops to jump through, but it’s worth it.

Make sure you enable HD video for 4K and enable global pass as you get 24 days. Plus if you have a smartwatch you get free service for the entire year. You will need to be someone who is somewhat tech savvy to execute this. Pace yourself and take your time.

Let’s go to saving money!
Good luck to all. You all are beautiful.

He’s sometimes homeless. He does have autism in addition to substance abuse issues. Often loses phone. What is the cheapest way locally to get a phone to add cellular to? He does not live me. In a metro area in US

So currenty I see 2 different companies that offer offers for the iPhone 16e. Metro is offering it for $99 with port-in on their $50 plan and after 3 months they'll send you a $100 prepaid debit card. (Thats nice!) (So i'd be looking at $150 out the door/web-browser lol)

On the other hand Straight Talk is offering their iPhone 16e for $149 with the purchase of a 1 month plan of $45 or more. Therefore i'd be looking at $192? out the browser.

What is the pro/con of one or the other? Thank you! And if you have a better option to get an iPhone 16e or even a similar iPhone, PLEASE let me know!