r/PopcornMobile

I have seen conflicting information on this and have searched posts trying to decipher it and can’t find anything definitive.

I’m in the U.S. most of the time. But I do travel overseas enough that this could be beneficial.

But while home…do we have access to all three networks or not? I have seen and realize T-Mobile is the primary and the core network behind everything.

Also have seen stuff about a second SIM for roaming. So AT&T? Verizon? Or both?

Would love some clarification before I jump in! Thanks all!

I've got invites that I think I can just use but.

1. I'm on a Pixel 10 Pro - how's the android setup going. I seem to see mostly yes'ish?
2. Sounds like the android app is coming around soon? any risk/impact in joining before or should I just wait. - same on the PLMN 316 060? worth just waiting till it's on it's own esim?
3. I don't think I ever use 50Gig (or rarely) - and I usually have a couple other data esim for data anyways, but I think I saw an other option to pay more for addition data as one offs or part of a higher plan? is that right and just don't go over 50Gigs?
4. does it support multiple lines on an account? there's a few lines I'm taking care of, or is it each line is it's own account?

Thanks!

Hi! Travelling to Tanzania for 3 months. Wanted to ask if anyone has had experience using Popcorn in this region. I've tried local and international esim providers, which provide limited data packages but I end up churning through a lot of data very quickly. Thanks!

Hi guy, Just wanted to share with you my experience and unfortunately, it’s not good. I switched to Popcorn just a few weeks ago. I am in Spain. Set up was fine and quick and I was able to use it. A few days ago, I noticed that I was not getting any data so I checked, both phone and text was disconnected too. Contacted their support and went through the troubleshooting but they couldn’t solve the problem. Eventually, they had to install a new eSIM and it worked again. Today, I had a friend called and said he was trying to call me but couldn’t reach me. And I didn’t have any missed calls. I didn’t think much of it as I was able to talk to him today so the phone was fine. And just now, I noticed there was no signal bar at all. Did some test, data, phone, text all disconnected again. And who knows if this had happened multiple times in the last few days and I just didn’t know it. So far, the service is very unreliable and I won’t recommend it if you have to use it to receive important calls.

My girlfriend and I have been using google fi for a few years. We’re currently on a longer trip abroad and Google Fi is about to kick us off the plan in 5 days.

Is it worth switching over to Popcorn? How long does it take to get set up? We’ll be traveling for the next 4 months so don’t want to get kicked off another plan for not returning to the US…

Sorry if this is already been answered somewhere, but it's the one thing that popcorn mobile seems to be a little bit vague about.

I've been thinking about switching from Google Fi to popcorn mobile. When I saw the 50 GB data cap, I looked through my usage for the last year, and well most months I used about 25 GB in total, there was one month I used about 55 and another I used about 75 because I was in mainland China, and my Google file was the only easy way to get around the great firewall. I tried different VPN on the hotels Wi-Fi, and it just didn't work.

So, what happens if a loyal customer is using about 25 GB per month, but then goes over 50 GB once or twice per year? Is their data suspended for the rest of the month? Is the connection throttle for the rest of the month (and if so, what is the throttled speed)? Is your plan canceled?

I'm guessing the policy is a little bit vague so they can decide what to do on a case by case basis. But not knowing what the consequences would be is the one thing keeping me from switching.

Full time digital nomad here. My last phone plan is set to expire within the next two days. I mostly travel throughout Europe, Asia and South America. I don’t make a ton of calls, but I need reliable text and data and have a few questions:

1. Anyone have issues connecting to local networks? I’ve experienced that with Tello.

2. Is there a list of covered countries?

3. If I join popcorn is there any reason to keep my Tello plan?

4. Anyone have a referral code?

TIA 🙏

I’m on Mint right now but I don’t need any of its benefits and would like to keep my phone number open, probably just sms and calls if anyone’s going to call me

Should I use popcorn mobile or tello?

I have Popcorn Mobile and live in Canada. I roam to other countries a fair bit too. It seems Popcorn routes all traffic via the US, so any geolocation detection thinks I'm in Texas.

This was quite unexpected to me, and it didn't seem like on signing that it was so US-centric.

By routing all data via the, not only does that interfere with location blocking (there are many services I can't access from Canada due to geolocation blocking), but also there's a performance penalty / added latency.

It seems Popcorn thinks this is a "feature", because it's "like you're at home when abroad", but I don't consider my home to be the US! I can imagine this is similar for a lot of others too... I don't know if this is something Popcorn could make an option for, or if it's baked into their infrastructure to do so.

Hello, I'm currently in Germany on an international plan from US Mobile and I'm wondering how long the wait list is ( I'm on an Android), I'm not going to have access to Internet for the next couple weeks and need to know if I'm still going to go with popcorn or not based on the wait-list time.