innerspaceboy has this crazy idea...
It looks like I avg 11-15GB a month and peak at 120GB of data usage on my cell.
Thus far keeping my grandfathered-in unlimited data plan has been the clear choice. But after the last price hike, I'm paying $117 a month for one phone.
I'm thinking about Project Fi. $20 per month for unlimited talk and text, and you buy whatever data you want at $10 per gigabyte. Unused GBs are credited back to the user. It's only available on a few Nexus devices but I'm a big fan of the series.
Considerations:
I spend 99% of my life in a one-mile radius of my village. Every day. At home, I've got 65kbps FiOS so I'd just hop on my WiFi every time I walk in the door.
The cafe I visit on weekends for research/writing also has free and reliable Wi-Fi, as do most of the places I frequent in the city.
The Test:
I'm going to spend a few weeks living off Wi-Fi to see what impact it has on my data usage. On paper, if I hit 9GB I still come out ahead. I'm going to try to keep it around 3GB which would effectively cut my bill in half after taxes and fees.
Potential annual savings at 3GB = $684. Worth looking into!
Are there any Fi customers on MB? I'd love to hear about your experience with the service!
