I switched to U.S. Mobile several years ago and loved it so much that I convinced my son and his family to switch, and also my girlfriend to switch too. We're all so happy with the service and the price. I can recommend it without reservation. I've traveled extensively and camped in parks away from urban areas and seldom have any problem with the phone connection or the hotspot.
My family and I switched to US Mobile in December 2023 (7 lines) and we have 9 lines with them now. I've been very happy. The fact that you can use any of the big 3 carriers (Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T) for your lines is awesome. Any of our lines can use any of the networks. So, our daughter lives in an area where Verizon or AT&T is best, but T-Mobile is best for 7 of the 9 lines. If you are traveling to an area where your normal network doesn't work well, just switch to a different network. We don't use a lot of cellular data since we are often at home on Wi-Fi. So, in our case, all 9 lines cost us less than $150/month, even with some data top-ups each month.
We use shared data plan pools and have from the beginning. The only problem is there isn't a way yet (supposedly US Mobile is working on it) to set hard limits on lines to prevent them from using more of the data pool than you might like. So, instead of having one big pool with all 7 lines (now 9 lines) sharing the data, we now have 4 pools (6 lines on one pool and the other 3 lines on their own pool). The first line on a pool is free and every line after that is $8. So, doing this saves $24 (for the 3 lines that are on their own pool), but it also is a work around so that the those lines can only use the data in their pool. The trick is setting the base data plan for each pool to about what you need/want to use each month. Sure, you can always do data top-ups (manually or automated) if you need to, but those are a bit more expensive than the base data plans are. You used to be able to buy 1GB data top-ups, but it looks like they changed the minimum to 2GB in the last month or so. I should add that your base data does NOT roll over to the next month, but data top-ups do roll over.
If one wants/needs unlimited data plans, US Mobile seems to have some really good ones. It still might be cheaper to simply have a set data plan if you really only need X amount of data per month. When I researched the priority levels available for US Mobile's Warp (Verizon), Dark Star (AT&T), and Light Speed (T-Mobile) networks, they were getting if I remember correctly the top priority level for AT&T and Verizon and the 2nd highest priority level on T-Mobile.
That is also a benefit of the using a data pool. All data on US Mobile's data pools are at the highest priority level. This isn't true with the unlimited plans.
Correction (on 12-05-2025) --
I revisited the QCI/5QI data priority levels. I was correct in my memory that US Mobile's Light Speed is getting the 2nd fastest priority level (QCI 7). However, Dark Star (AT&T) and Warp (Verizon) are getting the lowest data priority level by default for most plans. So, if T-Mobile works well in one's usual area, then US Mobile's Light Speed network is the one to maybe go with.
Granted, it is important to remember that the QCI/5QI data priority level really only comes into play when the network congestion reaches a certain level. If a network is not that congested, then everyone might see very high speeds since nobody is necessarily having their data de-prioritized.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I just have a few unlimited lines.
What I saw in terms of priority seemed pretty good -- I suspect my old grandfathered T-Mobile plan wasn't top priority on T-Mobile's network either, despite how much I was paying!
For anyone that wants to research the priority levels a bit more, you can go to https://www.usmobile.com/plans and then scroll down and you will see a big blue "Get started" button, but below that is a link "*Varies by network. More plan details ->”.
Click on that link and you'll see what the Quality of Service Class Identifier (QCI) priority levels are for Dark Star, Warp, and Light Speed based on the various plans.
I switched to U.S. Mobile several years ago and loved it so much that I convinced my son and his family to switch, and also my girlfriend to switch too. We're all so happy with the service and the price. I can recommend it without reservation. I've traveled extensively and camped in parks away from urban areas and seldom have any problem with the phone connection or the hotspot.
My family and I switched to US Mobile in December 2023 (7 lines) and we have 9 lines with them now. I've been very happy. The fact that you can use any of the big 3 carriers (Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T) for your lines is awesome. Any of our lines can use any of the networks. So, our daughter lives in an area where Verizon or AT&T is best, but T-Mobile is best for 7 of the 9 lines. If you are traveling to an area where your normal network doesn't work well, just switch to a different network. We don't use a lot of cellular data since we are often at home on Wi-Fi. So, in our case, all 9 lines cost us less than $150/month, even with some data top-ups each month.
We use shared data plan pools and have from the beginning. The only problem is there isn't a way yet (supposedly US Mobile is working on it) to set hard limits on lines to prevent them from using more of the data pool than you might like. So, instead of having one big pool with all 7 lines (now 9 lines) sharing the data, we now have 4 pools (6 lines on one pool and the other 3 lines on their own pool). The first line on a pool is free and every line after that is $8. So, doing this saves $24 (for the 3 lines that are on their own pool), but it also is a work around so that the those lines can only use the data in their pool. The trick is setting the base data plan for each pool to about what you need/want to use each month. Sure, you can always do data top-ups (manually or automated) if you need to, but those are a bit more expensive than the base data plans are. You used to be able to buy 1GB data top-ups, but it looks like they changed the minimum to 2GB in the last month or so. I should add that your base data does NOT roll over to the next month, but data top-ups do roll over.
If one wants/needs unlimited data plans, US Mobile seems to have some really good ones. It still might be cheaper to simply have a set data plan if you really only need X amount of data per month. When I researched the priority levels available for US Mobile's Warp (Verizon), Dark Star (AT&T), and Light Speed (T-Mobile) networks, they were getting if I remember correctly the top priority level for AT&T and Verizon and the 2nd highest priority level on T-Mobile.
That is also a benefit of the using a data pool. All data on US Mobile's data pools are at the highest priority level. This isn't true with the unlimited plans.
Correction (on 12-05-2025) --
I revisited the QCI/5QI data priority levels. I was correct in my memory that US Mobile's Light Speed is getting the 2nd fastest priority level (QCI 7). However, Dark Star (AT&T) and Warp (Verizon) are getting the lowest data priority level by default for most plans. So, if T-Mobile works well in one's usual area, then US Mobile's Light Speed network is the one to maybe go with.
Granted, it is important to remember that the QCI/5QI data priority level really only comes into play when the network congestion reaches a certain level. If a network is not that congested, then everyone might see very high speeds since nobody is necessarily having their data de-prioritized.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I just have a few unlimited lines.
What I saw in terms of priority seemed pretty good -- I suspect my old grandfathered T-Mobile plan wasn't top priority on T-Mobile's network either, despite how much I was paying!
For anyone that wants to research the priority levels a bit more, you can go to https://www.usmobile.com/plans and then scroll down and you will see a big blue "Get started" button, but below that is a link "*Varies by network. More plan details ->”.
Click on that link and you'll see what the Quality of Service Class Identifier (QCI) priority levels are for Dark Star, Warp, and Light Speed based on the various plans.