So to make this essentially free you have to sign up for Fi service for your phone. The Fi phone plan will probably cost over $10/month (assuming you use data) but it will probably be cheaper than whatever phone plan you are currently using (Mint Mobile is cheaper, and T-Mobile is coming …
So to make this essentially free you have to sign up for Fi service for your phone. The Fi phone plan will probably cost over $10/month (assuming you use data) but it will probably be cheaper than whatever phone plan you are currently using (Mint Mobile is cheaper, and T-Mobile is coming out with a new $15/month plan that will likely also be cheaper). Once you have Google Fi service on your phone you can order a free data only sim card from them. They’ll ship it to you for free and it has no monthly fee, it only charges you for data and the charge is 1 penny per MB.
Having run this for a few months now the data usage is a bit higher than I was expecting. My data only sim card uses 90-150 MB of data per month so it costs $0.90-$1.50 each month. Pretty cheap but not free. Most of this data is used by android system services and not checking on the GPS location, but I’ve disabled as much as I’m comfortable disabling on the phone and am fine paying a buck a month for it.
Profit Greenly (Post author)
2020-03-25 at 11:55 am
So to make this essentially free you have to sign up for Fi service for your phone. The Fi phone plan will probably cost over $10/month (assuming you use data) but it will probably be cheaper than whatever phone plan you are currently using (Mint Mobile is cheaper, and T-Mobile is coming out with a new $15/month plan that will likely also be cheaper). Once you have Google Fi service on your phone you can order a free data only sim card from them. They’ll ship it to you for free and it has no monthly fee, it only charges you for data and the charge is 1 penny per MB.
Having run this for a few months now the data usage is a bit higher than I was expecting. My data only sim card uses 90-150 MB of data per month so it costs $0.90-$1.50 each month. Pretty cheap but not free. Most of this data is used by android system services and not checking on the GPS location, but I’ve disabled as much as I’m comfortable disabling on the phone and am fine paying a buck a month for it.