Want to save money on your phone bill? How about switching to an MVNO?
I have never understood why (contract free) people pay 100s of dollars on their phone bills being on of the Big 4 cellular networks in the US, namely: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint . Talking to some of those people, I realize they don't even know they have an option, namely an MVNO. MVNO stands for Mobile Virtual Network Operator. These are carriers who supply their own plans to customers but use one (or more) of the Big 4 networks I listed. In other words, you do stand to save money on your monthly bill and that too, without losing the network you love! Sounds too good to be true, so what is the catch? Well, the catch is that customers using one of these MVNO plans may be deprioritized by the Big 4 in moments of network congestion or their data may be throttled when they reach a specific threshold in comparison to customers who are directly using the Big 4 . But, for all practical purposes, you won't feel a difference. I can say that having tried almost 10 o