1 Year with Mint Mobile - 4GB/5GB, $15 a month, Is it worth it?

I have spent the last year using Mint Mobile's $15 a month plan and I am excited to report all of the positives and negatives of making the switch from large cellular providers. Today, I break down what is Mint Mobile, how does family plans and discounted plans work, how is the service itself, and how does international travel work! Oh, and a bonus all of your questions from my first video that I did of 1 month with mint mobile.

Update! It is now 5GB of data!!!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Why I moved to Mint Mobile
01:10 - What is Mint Mobile? How does it operate?
02:35 - $15 a month plan + my savings
07:05 - Family plan on mint mobile
09:35 - Is mint mobile service any good (domestic)?
14:05 - International data on mint mobile
18:30 - eSim instead for international
20:20 - Recap - 1 Year of Mint Mobile
22:05 - Wireless hotspot with mint mobile
23:25 - What happens when you run out of data?
24:30 - Mint mobile in Alaska?
25:25 - Does wifi calling drain battery?
25:50 - Wrap-up

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[dford]

As a guy who grew up with a phone hanging on the wall it feels ridiculous to pay a big cellphone bill

[philliprhinehardt]

People are tired of playing expensive cellphone bills.

[MccTube]

When you run out of data you can stick with slow speeds or you can buy 1 GB for $10 or 3 GB for $20

[Alien_at_Large]

My son just moved to Mint because Straight Talk conned him into switching to a SIM that's incompatible with his phone. He's pretty happy with the service so far.

[jwatts]

Long video in length but definitely didn’t feel long since it was so comprehensive compared to other reviewers and answered some questions only you seem to bring up. I’m trying to switch from Verizon to Mint since I WFH and am on wifi about 95% of the time. Great review and definitely will be giving them a shot!

[wrmmachne]

I definitely don’t regret signing up for Mint Mobile when they first came out. I saved so much $$$ every year since then! 😁

[paulgettinger]

A great fair review. I am a Mint Mobile user for three years. My daughter, wife, and I have different plans.

[guyincognito]

The next Ryan Reynolds / Mint Mobile ad I see on Youtube better have a cameo from James!

[steviedream]

They have a new international plan now. Just did an 8 day Tokyo trip. Got their 10 day pass with 500 minutes, 500 texts and 10gb of data for 20 bucks. They also have a 1 and 3 day pass for 5 or 10 bucks respectively.

[Gmommy]

Thank you, sir. Struggling out here... this is so helpful.

[jakestyles]

Great work, I love the thorough discussion and quality in the details. Well done, thank you.

[toddwerther]

Mint is adding more data FOR FREE
4GB will be 5GB 10GB will be 15GB 15GB will be 20GB Believe there is an upgrade to unlimited as well.

[mariezito]

I went to a Mint Mobile plan for my husband who does not use a cell phone very much. At $15 a month it turned out to be a good deal and easy to set up, except when we went to renew the plan I was told that it was $25 a month. No amount of talking to customer service reps (they follow a script, no matter what you ask) changed the fact that if I wanted to renew for the next 3 months, it would have to be at the $25 rate. We were very upset and discouraged because all of the ads stressed the $15 a month.

[LookingTravelingWelderJob]

I've been using metro pcs for 5 years. I'm switching. I pay 120 for 3 lines now unlimited. Soon il be paying for 6 months what I did each month

[bgszcfm]

I find it absolutely mad how expensive mobile plans are in the US, even Mint feels expensive to me - in the UK, I pay £28 per month for 4 SIM's; 2 are unlimited data only and the other 2 are unlimited text, minutes and data. Thats about $35!

[teddyriefke]

This is awesome!!! I watched the entire video and defiantly will be switching to MINT! I have att right now and I personally think mint is a way better deal with better coverage!

[CricketThomas]

T-Mobile has a 55+ unlimited plan, where it’s $30 per line for unlimited data and we’re still eligible for the free upgrade every year too with 0 dollars out of pocket.

Caveat, you have to know someone 55+ to be the account holder.

[mulletsquirrel]

Just switching over now to Mint from Verizon. Our cost (2 lines) should go from about $130 -> 30 for 4GB! I'm a bit nervous about running out of data, but rarely used our 4GB on Verizon and now we will each have that much data! Should be good to go.

[toai]

my experience is if you come to certain areas, google map can't even load. and that is frustrating. My guess is deprioritization kicks in and it affects the signal

[makzamillion]

Thanks for your video review. You helped me to decide to try out Mint! 👍