A long while ago, many have suggested folks trying to leverage low cost/no cost MVNOs to sign up and xfer their number to Google Voice. This way, you have a stable entity holding your numbers and you are free to utilize any service to maintain use of your primary phone number (now GV).
I guess many have gone to low cost paid service and are doing fine. Those who continue to try and get freemium service, like CN, are a small minority, have ignored that recommendation, and are the few who are complaining now.
Then there are those of us who've had & used GV for years & years - merely attaching & detaching cellular numbers as things come & go - as we have done here.
FP has changed things around so much as to be confusing; we have 1 or 2 of the older FP SIMs but have gotten about zero usage out of them.
Whilst thinking about this I even ran across the 'global SIM' cards we got from FP & never even used.
Which of their services are still data/VOIP/app dependent - can anyone tell me ??
(Their data/VOIP/app dependent stuff didn't work around here for us at all is why I ask.)
I find that I am reluctant to try anything new with them even to get 100% free GSM services, what with the confusion of services offered, needing to change stuff, maybe the need of signing up again - trial period - avoiding the monthly charge, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Mostly what using the 'free' services has taught this user so far is that though they may use little or no $, they end up 'costing' in other ways which end up making this user rather twitchy !!
As far as I understand, you must have premium voice addon to get non data/VOIP calls. And that only works with Sprint, not the "LTE" (AT&T) or Global Sims (3G).
But they are fantastic for free data with no muss and no fuss, once you get through the initial signup. Never touch a thing after that. Been with them since almost the beginning of FP.
Thanks for the info.
No real change for us then as cellular data is pretty much non-existent here.
Looking at the very tempting sales page here: https://www.freedompop.com/sim-card
Reveals nothing of whether it is real cellular or VOIP...kind of left that info out, yes ??
(And the title: 'SIM Card Only Service' is rather misleading IMO.)
And if/when I have an unlocked GSM device that can use it, it may be useful over wifi only here at home, but every time I tried using it out & about the call quality was so bad as to not be worth even trying to use it.
Its too bad they don't offer real GSM (non-app & non-VOIP based) free services at some minimal level.
THAT would be very useful !!