It's for people that still trust Google in terms of long term reliability for whatever reason. They think Google won't randomly shut down the service, offering a bland support page for help porting their number to a new carrier (with a gift card thrown in possibly).
As good as Fi sounds, I just can't see it lasting.
I think Google Fi will stick around because it really doesn't sound that good. I don't mean that it sounds bad or anything. It's just that a 22GB plan for $30/mo on a family plan isn't a deal. I can get $25 from Visible/Verizon and it's actually unlimited. I can get $30 (or $26 for 4 lines) from T-Mobile with 50GB of premium data and then unlimited deprioritized data rather than 256kbps throttled data.
I can see it lasting simply because they are charging a lot of money for it.
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It's for people that still trust Google in terms of long term reliability for whatever reason. They think Google won't randomly shut down the service, offering a bland support page for help porting their number to a new carrier (with a gift card thrown in possibly).
As good as Fi sounds, I just can't see it lasting.
I think Google Fi will stick around because it really doesn't sound that good. I don't mean that it sounds bad or anything. It's just that a 22GB plan for $30/mo on a family plan isn't a deal. I can get $25 from Visible/Verizon and it's actually unlimited. I can get $30 (or $26 for 4 lines) from T-Mobile with 50GB of premium data and then unlimited deprioritized data rather than 256kbps throttled data.
I can see it lasting simply because they are charging a lot of money for it.
Nothing is forever, but Google Fi has been available for 6 years now.