Using Project Fi in China: The secret to ditching the VPN

noth­ing worse than Chi­na south­ern econ ugh

Google Fi makes sense for peo­ple who don’t use a lot of data. I’m one that that had a plan which costs $60 per month. The plan had unlim­it­ed data, which I thought was a good deal. Well, I noticed that I was­n’t using a lot of data because I have WiFi at home and at work. My nor­mal data usage was less than a 1 Gig per month.

Now, I use Google Fi, which costs $20 dol­lars per mouth. I’m only billed for the data that I use. So, for my needs it cuts my bill in half. Now, Imag­ine if I could get my wife on board which would drop our 120 month­ly cel­lu­lar bill down to $60, theoretically.

You should def­i­nite­ly try it, there is not con­tract and you can bring any unlocked phone. If you want to take advan­tage of the seam­less pow­er of Google use of 3 net­works, which ever has the strongest sig­nal, you would have to use one of the phone mod­els that is ful­ly com­pat­i­ble with Google Fi. I like Google Fi, so I may by a com­pat­i­ble phone later.

If you decide you want to try it, we can both save $20 if you use my code when you sign up. Once signed up, you will also have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to save $20 off your bill for each per­son sign up under your code.

My code is: https://g.co/fi/r/5K5D4H

while you are roam­ing how do you call local num­bers. when you are in chi­na for exam­ple can you call local peo­ple are locals able to call you. danke

What about Sin­ga­pore and Malaysia?

jknew?

I’m in the UK and we have loads of deals on our mobile net­works. Three often has deals that give you either unlim­it­ed or 100gb of data. We also have Gif­f­gaff that give you unlim­it­ed data for £25 a month.

In Ser­bia I’m pay­ing like 50 US dol­lars for one month but unlim­it­ed data with high speeds and my whole fam­i­ly is using (3 per­sons) and no restrictions.

I use a bud­get US car­ri­er (Vis­i­ble) who offers unlim­it­ed data but ZERO inter­na­tion­al ser­vice. I often trav­el to Cana­da and decid­ed to try Google Fi to have some phone and data ser­vice. I works well for me. Phone calls cost $0.20/min which is a bit expen­sive but for me cel­lu­lar calls are a last resort. Most of my calls would be thru What­sApp any­way. And tex­ting is my pri­ma­ry way to com­mu­ni­cate. At $10/GB Google Fi ser­vice is dirt cheap and plen­ty fast.

My trips often last about a week and use ~1GB of data. Google bills me less than $30 but then refunds a sub­stan­tial por­tion of that back to me when I pause my phone ser­vice after that week of travelling.

Chi­na 5G lmao

google fi is a way to get all your data with­out being a real provider

I’ve had Fi from day one and con­sid­er it to be the best ser­vice, hands own. In the US I do what you sug­gest­ed, using WiFi most of the time. My month­ly bill is about $25. I’ve only used it in Cana­da, out of the US and it works great there. The per­son I was trav­el­ing with had Ver­i­zon and it went away when we crossed the bor­der, while Fi said Wel­come to Cana­da. I par­tic­u­lar­ly like that you only pay for what you use, and there a no con­tracts. Get in and out when­ev­er you want, but since I’ve had Fi I have nev­er changed ser­vices. I used it with a Nexus 6 orig­i­nal­ly, and now have a Pix­el 3, which I bought when Google offered it at half price for Fi users. I use the free hotspot fea­ture in my camper­van where I have a large TV and and YouTube TV ser­vice. Every­thing I have at home I take with me on the road. Thanks for point­ing out that using roam­ing allows con­nec­tion on Ver­i­zon. I haven’t tried that because I usu­al­ly have LTE wher­ev­er I go anyway.

Thanks for these great info. I want to hear your opin­ion on this: I need to con­nect to comp­nay’s VPN for work, so if I am using the FI in Chi­na and using their “Built-in VPN” that should be able to hide my ip address as in Chi­na, do you think I can still con­nect the comp­nay’s VPN with­out show­ing IP in address? Also did you guys use the FI data on the lap­top with­out any prob­lem? Thanks!

Watch­ing this in 2023 sheesh

Does this work in 2023? Any­one know?