OT: Cell phone service providers

[geoffrey mendelson]

On 2/11/2014 7:50 PM, Ari Becker wrote:
>
> Yeah, by "true unlimited" I was talking about Internet, not voice. I 
> meant unlimited data without throttling for going over an arbitrary 3G 
> limit.
>
> Because of the nature of my job, I only have access to a landline on 
> weekends so I have to watch my usage very carefully not to go over the 
> limit and have my main source of Internet access slow to a crawl. I 
> currently pay 100 shekels a month, I could easily be persuaded to up 
> that to 200 or 300 shekels a month for a never-throttle plan so that I 
> can watch YouTube and listen to Internet radio in peace.
>
>
Back when I was using USB sticks for cellular internet, I got an Orange 
pay as you go SIM with it. 149 NIS a month gave me 20gig. I don't know 
if they still offer it or another similar plan.

The competition from Cell-Com was truely unlimted, BUT if you went over 
what 80% of their users used that month, the next month you were in 
cellular data hell, around 56k bits per second. Pelephone had a similar 
plan. The way around that was buy two SIMs, and when one was limited, 
use the other.  I had a friend who dropped her landline in favor of a 
Cell-Com unlimited data plan. No one told her about the limit and she 
was back to a landline in a month.

BTW, if you are using Golan, it's only 59 NIS a month. They are having a 
sale for 2014, and the price will hold until the end of the year.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.