Official Tello Mobile thread

[PaulCrawhorne]

UltraMobile PAYGO is $3/mo for a working line

including for overseas 2FA

but pSIM only, must get WiFi Calling working before you leave the US

[SlowLoris]

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.

Thank you! I did not realize that was an option. I will have to investigate, but you are correct, it is probably worth the extra $2 to get the data accumulation and the two factor authorization if she ever needs it. I assume she would also lose her PayGo balance, unless the Park Plan counts for the service requirement.

I was able to get her another referral, so she has another 2 months until I have to reevaluate.

[SlowLoris]

UltraMobile PAYGO is $3/mo for a working line

including for overseas 2FA

but pSIM only, must get WiFi Calling working before you leave the US

Thank you. I will mention this to her as well. It might be more complicated than she wants though, because she would have to move her Vodafone line from physical sim to e-sim while abroad, then do the port from Tello e-sim to UltraMobile physical sim over Christmas. But I will investigate!

[jet1000]

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.

It's hard to tell if that's a Tello issue or just the T-Mobile sites being overwhelmed. If a different T-Mobile MVNO was used with better results, then that would be a Tello issue.

[PaulCrawhorne]

gFi is a great service to test that

especially if you can just join an an existing Flex plan, only 50¢/day plus 1¢/MB ($10/GB) for what you use testing, no minimums

[SmilingBob]

It's hard to tell if that's a Tello issue or just the T-Mobile sites being overwhelmed. If a different T-Mobile MVNO was used with better results, then that would be a Tello issue.

Anecdotally, I had Mint Mobile for a brief time awhile ago as well as Red Pocket GSMT, and they were deprioritized exactly the same as my Tello service in the areas I frequent. I didn't have another TMO MVNO phone to test at Renfest, but my money is on the TMO MVNOs being deprioritized equally bad, maybe worse than their MVNO counterparts on V & ATT.

[PaulCrawhorne]

Sorry I was not more clear

Google Fi is the only TMO MVNO with the same priority level as T-mobile postpaid.

Simple plans customers have lower priority than gFi customers.

[pitflyer]

Are there any promo codes (not referral) that still work on new lines..I used to use 15offaff but no longer and newer codes such as 30new switch or tp70 doesn't seem to work.

[SlowLoris]

Are there any promo codes (not referral) that still work on new lines..I used to use 15offaff but no longer and newer codes such as 30new switch or tp70 doesn't seem to work.

I believe 10OFFAFF will work on a new account (but not on a new line on an existing account).

[pitflyer]

Can confirm 10 works. Thanks SlowLoris