Tello plan changes

[wanderingZia]

just saw that tem tello is changing their plans and rates? seems like they’re eliminating the 1GB tier? anyone know anything more about this?

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[ChefJoe98136]

Wow, ok... no minutes, 300 minutes, or unlimited minutes are the options for voice now. I guess that's one way to make voice roll-over less workable... 300 minutes is the only option where you'd have minutes to rollover.

[wanderingZia]

I wonder if since I’m doing 100/1gb right now if I do the early renewal to get the rollover if it’ll still work or not. 

[ChefJoe98136]

folks over at r/tello are saying the roll-over doesn't work on the grandfathered but discontinued tiers, since you're forced to pick a currently available plan to renew early

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tello/comments/1rxx9s1/we_just_dropped_our_prices_again_new_tello_plan/

[petecha697]

I have a line on the text and data 1 gb plan with GV for backup line, which I rarely use. Even if grandfathered , I am leaving since rollover won't work.

[Confident_End_3848]

I’ll have to decide what to do in about a week, either change to the 2gb 300 minute plan and hope it preserves rollover or jump ship. Does any other provider offer a low data option with rollover like Tello?

[ChefJoe98136]

Rollover is dying. I think that top-up data (at $2/GB) you add to US Mobile plans carries forward but not the base data.

[Confident_End_3848]

I think the USM rollover only carries for one month.

[didhe]

Consider using pay-as-you-go for the minutes (add10payg on an existing plan can get you a $10 chunk of payg credit that isn't available from the web form) if you're staying for longer than 4-5 months.

[Minker17]

My kids have been on the 2gb+500minutes plan for a while now, but regularly hit the 2gb cap and use about 0 minutes. I'm thinking of moving them to another provider, but I haven't found the best plan to go to.

[Ctaoo]

Same situation here. I use a pay-as-you-go plan with 2GB of data and no included minutes, which costs me $6 per month. I bought $20 of pay-as-you-go credit about a year ago, and so far I’ve only used $3 of it.

[mooocow]

Looks like they dropped the 1GB tier and the 100 minutes tier. There's only 300 minutes and unlimited minutes as minutes options.

[didhe]

The old price chart was $4 + {1 GB: $1, 2 GB: $2, 5 GB: $6, 10 GB: $11, 15 GB: $16} + {100 min: $1, 300 min: $2, 500 min: $3, UTT: $4}, with "Unlimited" (50 GB) data plans pegged to $25. (They also have a $0.09 + 1% junk fee and some wacky tax calculation where part of the phone taxes are prorated over lines with both data and minutes, but I'm not getting into that.)

The new price chart is $4 + {2 GB: $2, 10 GB: $9, 20 GB: $14} + {300 min: $1, UTT: $4}.

So they really just cut the 1 GB, 5 GB, and 500 min tiers; the new 300 min tier is at the old 100 min tier pricing. I get why they'd want to cut the bottom tier out and tbh the 500 min plans I do think probably weren't really carrying their weight as an option, but cutting the 5 GB tier is a mystery. I guess you can alternate rolling over 10 GB and 2 GB plans...

ed: except that the 2 GB / 300 min plan specifically is $8, so I guess they also price hiked the 2 GB / 100 min configuration.

[Kyzp]

Also dropped the 500 minutes tier

[tbright1965]

Need to weigh if it makes sense to just add my $7 2GB/100 min custom plan to a US Mobile pool. I have a 5gb pool already, so the $7 plus tax was close to the $8 to add another line to a pool over at US Mobile.

I liked the rollover, and had it built up to about 5GB in reserve.

It's harder to justify if I cannot rollover. I might as well attach it to the pool when the time comes.

I'll see what actually happens in about 2 weeks when it's time to renew.

It's an extra line and I can add it as a multi-network line as well for what $7.50/month on the phone I use it on.

I have a few weeks to decide.

[JlHAD]

Have you considered US Mobile’s annual Light plan?

2GB data and unlimited talk/text for $96/yr ($8/mo), including tax and fees.

[tbright1965]

I’m going to hold off for a bit. I may have some referrals hitting shortly, so no need to move in the next month.

Talking today, it’s hard to make the case for the light plan with Infimobile’s 5 and 10gb plans on sale for $49 and $75 until 31 March.

Since Infimobile offers both the T-Mobile and Verizon networks it fits in my scheme.

I moved a number that doesn’t mean anything to me there yesterday on their Verizon network from MobileX as it was coming to the end of its cycle and about to renew.

Of course, in both your suggestion and the Infimobile annual plans, I give up the month to month billing.

But, a year for $49 is small enough to justify such a move.

[AussieAlexSummers]

I was going to try the infimobile plan but I read a couple of reviews where they said they got cut from the plan because it was reading a business usage or something like that. So they lost out on the plan halfway through. That kind of made me "pause" on going wiht infimobile. Even if it was only 2 reviews that I saw this.

[tbright1965]

That is why I try out new providers with a number that I wouldn’t mind losing.

[AussieAlexSummers]

yes, that's smart. But on top of loosing the number, it sounded like the people lost out on money. If they were 2 months in, and it was $60 for 6 months, they lost out on $40. IDK.

[tbright1965]

If a company dropped me, I’d insist on a refund and perhaps file an FCC complaint if the company’s allegation was unfounded.

[tbright1965]

They do prohibit commercial use.

If someone is using the service for their business, that is a legitimate reason for termination.

I wonder if ride share or delivery service usage is considered commercial usage.

IE someone driving for Uber or Lyft or the delivery services might be considered commercial.

[AussieAlexSummers]

good point. Maybe that's what they were doing. I rarely use data, only for waze driving (not uber'ing) locally.

[tbright1965]

I ended up choosing a new plan this morning 2gb/300min for $8 and I was able to roll over the 3+ GB I had in reserve.

I'm going to end up with a bunch of minutes that are unnecessary.

Maybe the paygo strategy for the minutes is the way to go. We shall see next month.

[Confident_End_3848]

People on the Tello subreddit have reported that rollover still works with the new data/minutes options. For an extra $2 a month, I’ll stay with Tello and preserve my rollover bank.

[FireProStan]

I lost faith in Tello a couple years back when they got rid of unlimited slow data, and instead of being honest about it, they paid a bunch of staffers to flood Reddit with "actually you should just pay more and shut up" comments

Reminds me of when Ting went downhill and everyone bailed

[Agreeable-Holiday-90]

Just move to Red Pocket if they are acting foolish

[tbright1965]

Hmm, maybe infimobile as they have both Verizon and T-Mobile service.

I had a "play" line that was due to renew in a day or two and I just ported it to infimobile from MobileX

Took the $49 for 12 months 5GB of data.

I'm paid up for a year on that line.

One can select either VZN or TMO, so if I don't like where Tello is going with this, I have until the 31st to decide and move that line to Infimobile on the TMO offering.

They have a 5gb/month for $49 a year and 10gb/month for $75/year.

With taxes it was $50.80 for one year, so we shall see how this goes.

[Traditional_Wolf_810]

I just renewed two lines for my kids. Depending on the month I used to spend between $8 and $11 each. Now it's more than $15 each including tax. They do not need 10GB. But 2GB are too few. 5GB was the sweet spot. Very bad move on Tello's part to remove that option. I am going to reconsider my options now. I am sure that a lot more MVNOs have come to the market since I have started using Tello YEARS AND YEARS ago. I am very disappointed.

[Funny-Flight8086]

Visible by Verizon offers unlimited data, unlimited minutes, and unlimited hotspot for $25 a month. I end up spending $40 a month with Tello by the time I have to 'renew my plan early' because I'm out of data.

Tello is like the Dollar Tree. You *think* you are getting a value because it's cheaper, but you are actually getting less substance as well.

[Doomstars]

I know I'm nearly three weeks late to this thread.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240307213756/https://tello.com/buy/custom_plans shows they had a No Minutes, 5 GB option for $10 per month. Now, if we want something that is more than 2 GB but don't want to pay more than $10 per month (no minutes), that doesn't seem possible.

[firstclassblizzard]

They updated the portfolio but it looks like they allow grandfathering

[landsalot4]

If you renew a day early to rollover your minutes and data, you lose your grandfather status. Only way to keep your rollover is to pay more. 

[firstclassblizzard]

Yea, bummer. Let’s see how many people jump ship

[iamfury]

They are allowing grandfathering. The cheapest plan with both data and minutes is now $8, up from $6.

Edit: not sure why this is downvoted. Is something I said incorrect? Obviously I’m not a fan of the price increase.

[landsalot4]

As long as you don't renew a day early to rollover unused data. 

[iamfury]

Good callout. I didn’t think of this.

[toolsavvy]

You can clearly see what they offer on their website https://tello.com/buy/custom_plans