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cheap SMS, was Email to text -
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 <johnl at 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
>