• sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org
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    9 hours ago

    cell (mobile) service is just way, way more expensive in the states. no justifiable reason, just cause they can and all do.

    I pay €8 monthly for unlimited everything except international calls (its my work phone) and I think €20 for the other one.

    I was just in the US for christmas and wanted data etc but my phone doesnt support eSim and the cheapest sim only plan was at&t and it was $40, it had a data cap of some kind and required a $15 activation fee. I used a lot of wifi during this trip.

    my wife’s phone can do eSim so she had unlimited everything for €25 or something for the ten days I believe, with Holafly.

    In a past life I worked at the biggest telecoms company in the states and we’d be encouraged to sell people $89.99 a month and that still had a limit to “minutes”. We also learned that the towers emit radiation 24 hours a day, and modulating said radiation costs the company essentially nothing at all, so the “minutes” thing is just pure profit

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      4 hours ago

      Team Mobile Connect offers five gigabytes of data, unlimited talk and text for $15 per month. That’s what I’ve been using for years now.

      • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org
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        3 hours ago

        is that like a microsoft teams esim?

        if so, I mentioned in a previous comment here my old phone cant use esims

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          2 hours ago

          Sorry, dictation. T-Mobile supports TOTP authentication, which you might know better as Google Authenticator, but the actual name of it is TOTP, or time-based One-Time Pads.