I've been really happy with the performance of my XT data stick, which sees occasional use when I'm away from home. I bought one for my parents as well, to get them off dialup, and it's been great.
Both of us are sporadic users -- we have a burst of activity one month, and then nothing for 2 or 3 months. XT's prepaid data plan suits that kind of user perfectly as we only get charged @ 10c per MB when we use it.
I have just resigned again with XT and upgraded to a new samsung smartphone. I am not happy with the plans on offer though. I got the $80 plan so i could get the heavy new phone subsidy, BUT what is the use of 200 minutes, 300 txts and 1 gig data when the battery life of the phone is nothing short of a joke and makes it impossible to use what is on offer unless you are permanently tethered to a charger? I would have prefered more txts and less minutes with the same amount of data.
This is my third XT phone and is spite of the above, I have no intention of moving networks, although I must admit the $19 degree offer did start to sway me!
mxpress: I have just resigned again with XT and upgraded to a new samsung smartphone. I am not happy with the plans on offer though. I got the $80 plan so i could get the heavy new phone subsidy, BUT what is the use of 200 minutes, 300 txts and 1 gig data when the battery life of the phone is nothing short of a joke and makes it impossible to use what is on offer unless you are permanently tethered to a charger? I would have prefered more txts and less minutes with the same amount of data.
This is my third XT phone and is spite of the above, I have no intention of moving networks, although I must admit the $19 degree offer did start to sway me!
sounds like your phone is faulty. you shouldn;t need to be connected to a charger to use your phone.
You could have taken a cheaper plan and taken a text boost with it. i.e. you got the $80 plan which gives 200 mins, 300txts and 1GB. If you had taken the $60 plan with a text boost it would only have cost you $70 total, and given you 100 minutes, 2500 txts and 1GB of national data. So you could get what you want for less than you are paying now.
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