Google Launches Project Fi Mobile Phone Service

An anonymous reader writes: Google unveiled today a new cell phone service called Project Fi. It offers the same basic functionality as traditional wireless carriers, such as voice, text and Internet access, but at a lower price than most common plans. From the article: "Google hopes to stand out by changing the way it charges customers. Typically, smartphone owners pay wireless carriers like AT&T and Verizon a bulk rate for a certain amount of data. Google says it will let customers pay for only what data they use on their phones, from doing things like making calls, listening to music and using apps, potentially saving them significant amounts of money. For now, the program is invite-only and will only be available on Google's Nexus 6 smartphone."

Comments

$10/GB is a bit pricey

[slinches]

This plan is reasonable for calling and texts, but the data prices are way too high.

If I were to switch to this plan I'd be paying 4x as much per month than I am currently (@30GB/mo T-mobile unlimited everything = $80, Google fi = $320). The wifi hotspot thing wouldn't help much either since I don't spend much time in range of any publicly accessible networks.

Re: $10/GB is a bit pricey

[jratcliffe]

You only get billed for cellular data, not Wifi. From the official announcement:

"and then it's a flat $10 per GB for cellular data while in the U.S. and abroad"

http://googleblog.blogspot.com...

Re:Too expensive.

[squiggleslash]

5GB is not unlimited, but 5GB High speed + unlimited lower speed is unlimited. The GP is referring to a plan of the latter type.

Being speed throttled sucks, but it's still good enough access for most web-on-phone tasks.