I'd stay so far away from that. If they're using someone else's network for a cheaper price they're cutting somewhere and most likely adding charges somewhere else. When things go down, guess whose the last priority as well. You can see this with many of the cable providers as well piggy backing off big providers systems. Downtimes of days, not hours when they occur.I got an email advertisement from them through the NRA. yes, it sounds like a really great business model, but...
I've been a Sprint customer since 1998, since I got my very first wireless analog phone for work. scares the shit out of me to change up something I've taken for granted for 20 years. that and there is not very much positive feedback out there from Patriot Mobile customers. according to my math, I can literally cut my monthly wireless bill in half (lease payment for phone excluded). sounds too good to be true that I can get the same quality/reliability for half the price and support conservative causes at the same time. admittedly, I'm paying for much more data than we ever come close to using.
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I'd stay so far away from that. If they're using someone else's network for a cheaper price they're cutting somewhere and most likely adding charges somewhere else. When things go down, guess whose the last priority as well. You can see this with many of the cable providers as well piggy backing off big providers systems. Downtimes of days, not hours when they occur.
If you live in a populated area you may never notice a cellular outage, other than the rare major outage that affects multiple services and providers when backbone equipment goes down. Much more noticable in rural areas which the most frequent being closest to dead zones or low service areas as when there is an interruption theres no redundancies close enough to take over. Not directly in the cellular field but IT professional.