New SIM card arrived in two days. Phone works just fine. $20/month.

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Originally posted by MRMATT:
New SIM card arrived in two days. Phone works just fine. $20/month.

How hard is it to replace the SIM card in an iphone?

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Originally posted by smlsig:

How hard is it to replace the SIM card in an iphone?

Trivial. Maybe 15 seconds, more if you have to remove the phone from a case.

An unbent paper clip to poke into the release hole on the side of the phone and the SIM tray slides out. Take out the old SIM, put the new one in, and close the tray.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by TexasScrub:
I've been on Mint for a while. Just re-upped for $240 for the year ($20/month) for 10gigs. Its actually faster than my old ATT, and it has much better coverage in my small town. The only drawback is that you have to own the phone, and so many folks get tied into purchase contracts with the big guys.

I highly recommend!

Solution for owning the phone....buy directly from Samsung or Apple. Both offer financing deals on new phones if you don't have the coin to buy it outright. Going that route means you can transfer between networks at will given the network company doesn't own or control the phone. That's how I bought my new Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G before I moved to Mint from T-Mobile.

Or buy any unlocked phone. Midrange phones are seriously viable now.

My current 2020 midrange-hardware phone is a better phone than my previous 2016 flagship-hardware phone.

I'm telling you guys, if the T-Mobile network offers good coverage where you live, you seriously need to give Mint a hard look. I went from paying $70/month for an unlimited T-Mobile plan (that I never used more than 3gb of data/month on, and usually averaged around 2gb) to paying $17/month for a 4gb Mint plan. That's $600+/year in savings for simply swapping a SIM card, with no differences noted in my service quality.