5.0 out of 5 stars Bang for the bucks, supports 5G, with hotspot

K.Y. · December 22, 2018

2024-06 update: years of subscription, mint roaming is awesome!It has been a couple years since I started my trial. I did acknowledge that T-Mobile is/has acquiring/acquired Mint, I do wish there is no further change to the existing plan, but increasing the data allowance would be awesome.I did travel to Canada and Germany this year, and I was able to roam in both countries by purchasing the mint roaming pass. This is rare for prepaid services I have to say.2022-07 update: hotspot also works under 5GHad to make some travels in the past month, I used the hotspot feature, and did a speed test. The hotspot speed tested on my laptop is the same as the one on the phone, which is 5G speed not capped at 4G/LTE or any lower speed. Gotta recommend this. Also I renewed again. Coverage still depends on T-Mobile.2021-12 update: eSIM is available!If you need help to convert to eSIM, navigate to the online portal and request it for free. Takes about 5 minutes.2020-10 update: T-Mobile turned on 5G in my area. I saw 5G on my Samsung Note 20, did a speed test, in the ball park of 200Mbps. Hence, when not congested, performance is indeed rather nice. Latency is in mid 50 ms.2020 - 03 Update: I renewed for another 12 months. I don't see a reason to leave. Need more info? Scroll down!UPDATE: IOS Wi-Fi calling worked. Please update your system to iOS11+.It has been 3 months, I renewed as annual plan. The past 3 months experiences were pleasant. If you need more details, keep scrolling down!I have been using different prepaid services for my personal phone since my business phone from the company handles most of my calls. Hence, I can risk my own device to try out all the possibilities and save a couple dollars.Hereby, let me break down into pros and cons:==============================================================================Pros:1. Big amount of data with hotspot tethering supported!Okay, for under $30 per month excluding the tax and fees, you can't find anything like this. If you purchase this on sale, yes, it will be 5GB (NOW WITH 8GB) per month for you for 3 months.2. Wi-Fi calling on Android actually works! (With supported phones)With Pixel XL and another T-Mobile Samsung phone, I was able to get Wi-Fi calling working, simply by registering online. Do make sure to check your phone compatibility. iPhone from my wife simply can't do it. Please bear that in mind. ( Worked with new iOS update! ) Make sure you update your E911 address on the website after the activation.3. Hassle free activation with no credit card needed for sign up!Well, if you are not sure if you will stick around with it, and worry about auto charge, during the sign up period, you can skip for adding credit card. And activation only requires the ACT CODE on the back of the card, takes about 1 minute to activate.4. Cute and elegant account management interface.My wife likes the sim card and the mascot design, you can't deny it. And the web management interface is WAYYYYYY better than some of those competitors. You can easily get the most you needed from it. But, how often do you need to log in anyway?5. Number good for banks and short-codesYes, your banks and short-code service will go through like a breeze.==================================================================================Now, lets talk about Cons:1. Data de-prioritizationThis thing is prepaid as well. So it is subject to throttling. That is generally known as de-prioritization. Since you are paying for the service with a discount. So you are not in the fast lane always.During the busy time in downtown Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco, this card will speed lower.I saw some posts actually complain about the speed, but most of them didn't factor in this issue. The speed is not painfully slow unless you go to the stadium on a game day. I'd suggest on Game Day, just concentrate on the game and family rather than Instagram, makes you a gentleman. (Well, when you have to, since stuff won't load... Like 0.02 mbps for download...)But yes, off-busy time, I had same fast speed across boards as the speed from postpaid tmobile business plan.2. Customer serviceWell, the customer service waiting time over the phone is... long. So grab a cup of coffee when you call.3. Number poolWell, they must withdraw the number from a pool of prepaid, then depending on your luck. If the previous owner had the number signed up for some ghetto things, you will get spam calls and so.You folks might ask National Do Not Call List... Okay, here is a thing, it takes 30 days for the system to completely register your account.====================================================================================Overall, what do I think?I'll stick around for 3 months, at least. (I mean, I paid for this already, no refund at this point...) Also, if after 3 month, new customer if and only if gets the same $20 for 3 months, then yes.If it would be your primary phone and you need to do your next millionaire job with your service, then I guess no, go postpaid.If you are a person like me, who only uses data for none crazy things, like just social media, email, web browsing, or 9GAG on the go. You'd be fine. Streaming? Not so much...Good luck and have fun folks! Keep the SIM card, cuz it is cute!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent pricing & Easy to Activate

A. · October 5, 2025

I was able to change my provider to Mint, keep my phone number and have it ported, and make a phone call in less than an hour with this package. Activation was super easy and I had zero issues!I bought the unlimited for $15/month @ 3 months. I wish I had more money to invest so I could have gotten the entire year. I was paying four times that with Verizon for 3 years plus more for my tablet. I will never do that again! I always wanted the option to get a discount for paying multiple months which no other company currently offers.The only downside is the data caps, but even they aren't significant. The data speeds are about the same as Verizon at a quarter of the cost. I haven't had issues with dropped calls caused by this provider. The connection issues are local and specific to my local home area and have happened with every major provider.I am happy with my service and look forward to snagging another deal to continue service when my 3 months are over.

5.0 out of 5 stars I should have done this long ago - Updated

A.C. · October 21, 2018

November 19, 2018 update - It's been one month today. Still couldn't be happier. I spent a week on vacation. No problem with service. Wireless internet went out for a couple hours while I was at the resort. I used my phone as a hotspot. It's been a really good experience. I thought my plan month was over tomorrow, so I had planned to run out my data tonight (I only used 2.7GB) by using my phone as a hotspot for my Roku (it eats about 2.3GB/hour) to see how fast the non-4G LTE data is. The phone plan includes unlimited data, you just pay for the 4G LTE data, after that you get slower data. How much slower is the question. That will have to wait until next month because I got a text earlier saying my second month had started. Stay tuned for the answer next month. Mint is great.October 22, 2018 - I was an AT&T customer for ~10 years @ $80/month (unlimited talk & text w/ 2GB/month). I could go into all the details of why I didn’t change before now, but I’ll save you the pain of reading that and me typing it. It’s going to be a long story anyway.I got an offer in the mail from Spectrum Mobile for unlimited talk & text with either unlimited data ($45/month) or pay for what you use ($15/GB). So, I looked at the phones they offered and didn’t like any of them. After a little research, I decided to buy a Moto G6 from Bolo. I got the phone, decided I liked it and then called Spectrum Mobile to send me a SIM card. Only to find out that they only support the phones they offer (I guess they’re more into the business of selling phones). OK, bummer.I then searched for cell phone plans in Bolo. Mint came up. I ordered the starter kit. It came two days later. I put in the first SIM and after a little easy-to-follow setup (I had to manually put in my APN information, but the directions were no problem at all), I was off and running. My house is in an AT&T dead zone (even though I live in Orlando FL). I had T-Mobile before and it was a dead zone too, so I thought that was my fate. Not so. As soon as I had the Mint card up and running, I placed a couple test calls from my house and was told I sounded perfect. Later, I noticed that my phone was saying it was using Wi-Fi calling. I'm not sure if this is a standard feature now, or just the G6, or part of Mint, but I know my old phone didn’t have it (one review that I read talked about having issues setting this up, I didn't it just magically appeared - I didn't even know it was an option). OK, I had to rerun the phone test. So, I turned off my Wi-Fi and did the test calls again. Same result, I sounded totally clear. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but before, I could hear people perfectly, but they couldn’t hear me half the time. MAJOR irritation. OK, on with my story. I then drove around and placed several calls from other areas that had been problem areas. Same result. I sounded perfect. I tried from inside a building where I was totally FUBAR before. No problems. So far so good.I tried out the mobile data. Sites loaded quickly and without any trouble. I decided to run a speed test. It got to about 35MB/s before I stopped it. In the time that I was running the test, it used 35MB of the 100MB on the test card, but I had the information I needed. Plenty of speed.So, the next morning, I got on the AT&T site and reset my phone account PIN (this was a little bit of a pain, but only because the AT&T website instructions were incomplete so I had to search for the reset link). You need this to take your phone number over. So, then I stuck in the second SIM card from the starter kit and followed the instructions. After reading all the legalese, I signed up and purchased the 3 months of 5GB/month plan (there were $3.41 tax and additional charges, so my total was $58.41 after the $5 back from the starter kit refund). This was about noon. At the end, it said it would take up to 48 hours to switch my old number over. My old cell SIM became inactive almost immediately. After a few minutes, my new phone rang to my old number when I called from a land line, but it was on Wi-Fi calling. It took a couple more hours for it to ring with my phone Wi-Fi off. It took a while longer for the mobile data to kick in, but by 6pm it was fully up and running. So far, so good. I played around with the app some. It is very intuitive and easy to use, so much better than the AT&T app that is just a continual struggle. It doesn’t look like it will be any problem to extend my service through the app when the time comes.Summary, Mint gets an A+ so far. Easy to setup and everything seems to work perfectly. If you’re looking for a phone, the Moto G6 also seems very nice. The screen’s not quite as wide as my old LG Optimus Pro (70mm vs. 73mm), but it’s taller (especially when you activate the Moto gestures to eliminate the wasted space associated with the Android on-screen navigation buttons). Battery life is excellent (my LG had replaceable batteries, which was cool, but the longer life of the Moto certainly compensates). Assuming the next 3 months go well, I’ll extend to the 1 year plan so I can keep the low monthly cost. I should have done this long ago. I hope this review was helpful (and not too long).

Cancelado

P.A. · May 16, 2025

Recibí el SIM pero no lo puede activar, contacte a MINT y me comentaron que el SIM está cancelado.

As described.

A.C. · November 19, 2022

As described.

Mint mobile sim card

R. · January 14, 2024

Great product,great company to deal with.Employees are well trained and knowledgeable. Easy set up.Would recommend this product all day long.

Good

d.s.l. · November 14, 2022

Utile

Do NOT buy

S. · November 9, 2021

You have to activate it immediately (I wasn't aware when purchasing). Bought it for an upcoming trip and it wouldn't activate when I needed it. Rip off. Didn't get a replacement either. No other sim card company is this unreasonable.