<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thank you everybody for your input.<br></div>We went with Golan. One phone the 59 NIS a month unlimited plan, the other the 10 NIS a month plan.<br></div>On the 10 NIS phone I'm trying to keep track of dropped and garbled calls, as well as good calls. Not exactly scientific, since I forget a few and I don't always know the carrier on the other end. But maybe it will help somebody in the future.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beni.cherniavsky@gmail.com" target="_blank">beni.cherniavsky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">+ Golan also have the nice property that they throttle you if you exceed 3G instead of charging huge overage fees.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">I guess throttling = 2G speed, which is barely usable, but I'm more concerned with paying a predictable bill — an option to hard-limit data usage would also be acceptable.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">e.g. Rami Levi told me they don't have a have a hard-limit option, I have to monitor my usage (and they'll send me SMSes when I approach the limit). It's easy enough to set up a limit in android, just made me a little annoyed as an approach.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- What annoyed me more with Rami Levi was when I upgraded the data plan in the middle of the month (1G->5G IIRC) and they charged me some overage at that moment because my usage since the start of the month exceeded 1G * <portion of the month>.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Pre-paid plans guarantee a predictable bill, of course. But these cost more at all providers.</div></div>
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