The "Ting" MVNO is owned/run by the Tucows people (remember them!) and runs on either Sprint or T-Mobile's network depending on where you are.
For very low data rate OOB access type things it can be as low as $10/mo for an active LTE SIM card. https://ting.com/rates?ab=1 On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:51 AM, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > >Then I went into a t-mobile store and bought a few $25/mo SIM cards, put > credit card on file to auto renew each month, slapped them in, and pointed > our NMS’s at them. > > Since this comes up from time to time, here's the cheapest US SIM plans I > know of. > > Tracfone BYOD runs on AT&T or Verizon (the latter is LTE only) and the > cheapest plan is $18 for 90 days if you sign up and autorenew. That > gives you 180 SMS. and if you want them 180 mins of voice and 180MB of > data, unused rolls over. Customer service is OK, seems to be in the > US, aimed at a bilingual Spanish/English market. > > Airvoice Wireless runs on AT&T. Their $10/mo plan is good for 500 > SMS/mo, no rollover. Their $20/mo plan has unmetered SMS and voice. > They have very good US-based customer service. > > R's, > John >
