Official Tello Mobile thread

[rpz1]

You can just use paygo but it expires in 90 days without another paygo topup. Minimum manual top up is$20 but if you can draw down your balance automatic paygo top up can be as low as $10.

Reddit folks have figured out that magic. Instead I just pay $6 every month for one more gig of data and use a paygo balance for occasional phone calls as texts are always free with active tello service.

Thanks. In hide site I figured $72 a year on my current 100/500 plan vs $40 a year on Paygo isn't a show stopper. In your case it would be $112 ($72+40) a year if I'm following. I really don't have the usage need. Just wanted the cheapest TMO option with carry over, TTD and hotspot if I ever needed an emergency second backup network to my Verizon.

[PL1]

I think the base plan requires at least a $5 per month investment. But the minutes & data balances can accumulate if you renew one day before the plan auto-renews.

I pay a minimum of $6 per month and that allows me to accumulate both minutes and data that I do not use. For $6, I get 100 minutes and 500 MB added to my balances. And I can buy more whenever I need it.

I'm thinking of going there when my TF sub expires. I was curious, you said you can rollover by renewing a day early. Could you pay a year in advance?

[jet1000]

I'm thinking of going there when my TF sub expires. I was curious, you said you can rollover by renewing a day early. Could you pay a year in advance?

Not that I know of.

The day-early rollover means you select the Change Plan option from your account, one day early. You don't have to actually change the plan (amount of minutes or data) in order to renew but you can. Then when you do, all current balances carry over to the next month and combine with the amount rewnewed. If you don't renew early, your past balance gets wiped out and your renew is just the plan that is purchased for the month.

[PL1]

Not that I know of.

The day-early rollover means you select the Change Plan option from your account, one day early. You don't have to actually change the plan (amount of minutes or data) in order to renew but you can. Then when you do, all current balances carry over to the next month and combine with the amount rewnewed. If you don't renew early, your past balance gets wiped out and your renew is just the plan that is purchased for the month.

Ok, Thanks.

[Tello Mobile]

We can confirm that Tello does accept PayPal for payment.

[Tello Mobile]

Thanks for that. It's looking like Tello may be one of the places I go after my TracFone service expires. I need a service that allows hotspottable data on my cells.

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[power_book]

I'm thinking of going there when my TF sub expires. I was curious, you said you can rollover by renewing a day early. Could you pay a year in advance?

Rollover with 3, 6 or 12 month prepay would be great!
I've been doing rollover for a while but might switch to US mobile when I deplete my balance. Their $5/month plan looks better.

[SlowLoris]

That's what I have now. Just wondering about going to only the PayGo. thx

Only PayGo used to be a viable option back when Tello only required some usage periodically. Once they switched to the requirement to purchase a plan/PayGo every 90 days, it's no longer really works on its own. On one line, we still have PayGo and combine it with the $5 data plan that I roll over. It's for my daughter who lives abroad, so it is a way to keep her US number alive, and the accumulated data is enough to get her through her visits to the US. Texts are free and calls come off her balance. I've been using Tello Dollars for the $5 each month, but I just ran out so will have to actually pay for her next renewal. I guess it might be time to investigate other options to essentially park a number.

[power_book]

No tax was charged for Tello dollar payment. But I ran out of Tello dollar. Now, I get $1.53 tax for $6 plan (Socal).

Only PayGo used to be a viable option back when Tello only required some usage periodically. Once they switched to the requirement to purchase a plan/PayGo every 90 days, it's no longer really works on its own. On one line, we still have PayGo and combine it with the $5 data plan that I roll over. It's for my daughter who lives abroad, so it is a way to keep her US number alive, and the accumulated data is enough to get her through her visits to the US. Texts are free and calls come off her balance. I've been using Tello Dollars for the $5 each month, but I just ran out so will have to actually pay for her next renewal. I guess it might be time to investigate other options to essentially park a number.

[SlowLoris]

No tax was charged for Tello dollar payment. But I ran out of Tello dollar. Now, I get $1.53 tax for $6 plan (Socal).

Thanks! I think I will still be able to avoid tax because I will not be purchasing minutes, but I will report back on her next renewal.

[SmilingBob]

Rollover with 3, 6 or 12 month prepay would be great!
I've been doing rollover for a while but might switch to US mobile when I deplete my balance. Their $5/month plan looks better.

I'd be sure you don't need the unlimited "slow data" at 2G that Tello provides after the data cap, because I'm pretty sure US Mobile plans that aren't unlimited are hard-capped data.

[Boz1]

I'd be sure you don't need the unlimited "slow data" at 2G that Tello provides after the data cap, because I'm pretty sure US Mobile plans that aren't unlimited are hard-capped data.

Sadly, Tello provides the industry's slowest unlimited throttled speed at 64Kbps.

[SmilingBob]

Sadly, Tello provides the industry's slowest unlimited throttled speed at 64Kbps.

It's true! But it's enough to track my kids and they can still imessage when they run out of fast data. And you can stream very-low bitrate podcasts and music. That's about it though, pretty much useless I agree for any real activity. Hard to argue for the entry-level price, as most of these cut-rate MVNO's for $10 or less have hard cut off.

[SmilingBob]

Something else worth mentioning is just how deprioritized Tello data is. In a word, very. We were at Texas Renfest today, and it's one of the largest of it's kind in the world. I couldn't get any type of data throughput with the tens of thousands of people there overloading the towers, but my Red Pocket GSMA (AT&T) and Visible (Verizon) worked just fine. I had to get on my wife's hotspot to do anything, but hey - it's $10/month. So, yeah.

[greenhandle]

... I guess it might be time to investigate other options to essentially park a number.

I believe Tello now allows parking a number, at $3/mo. It might work out for some people who are living overseas part time, since it can be restarted on demand when returning for a visit. For your daughter, the tradeoff would be losing data accumulation, and the possibility of using WiFi calling via Tello while out of the country.