Might be a good idea not to port your main phone number with this trial sim.

The trial package is a great idea, but to offer 100mb for a trial is terrible

Great idea to use as a trial plan, then if all is well, make the switch

Smart idea to give you the trial Sim to see if you get service where you work Live and play

Works great, great innovative idea to give you an idea of how the service works

The trial kit's allotted data of 100MB is not sufficient to do a proper speed test.(I performed a Google speed test: 0.11 Mbps Down/ 5.13 Mbps Up)In accessing different news webpages on its LTE newtork (T-Moible throttled tiered speed), the pages would not finish loading for 10+ seconds; some pages never finished loading (I used an unlocked Samsung Note 5 with all system updates completed, near LAX, on a Friday late afternoon).The setup was easy

I used phone for 2 days before deciding to switch to permanent plan - and get my $5 trial fee credited to the 1-year plan!I simply installed the second, "permanent" sim, entered some information, paid the required monthly or annual fee, and in 5 minutes, I was up-and-running on Mint Mobile with my current T-mobile number ported to Mint Mobile

I got this for a G5 Plus, installed it, did the setup and it worked perfectly.

I prepaid 300 for the full-year plan after trying out the test SIM card, and the coverage is just as good as T-Mobile (same network, I believe).

If you are able to do some light research/googling, don't mind rolling up your sleeves a little bit during the trial and activation process, are in a good T-Mobile coverage area and the trial SIM works well for you, this might be a good bet

Again I called tech support, and they answered promptly, and informed me that my SIM card could not be ported to my number, since a new number had already been generated.

I called tech support (again, they answered very quickly), and they said I'd used all 100 MB of LTE data on that SIM...

A call to Mint tech support - they ask for the SIM number and say, sorry, the SIM isn't in their system right, but they can't fix it - has to be escalated

I used phone for 2 days before deciding to switch to permanent plan - and get my $5 trial fee credited to the 1-year plan!I simply installed the second, "permanent" sim, entered some information, paid the required monthly or annual fee, and in 5 minutes, I was up-and-running on Mint Mobile with my current T-mobile number ported to Mint Mobile

At least when you call Tech Support, in my case, they actually answered the phone...

Wasted $5 and 5 days of my time

But once I decided that it wasn't for me, had to push, push, push mint to honor their 7 Day refund policy

Until the day comes that this improves, I will NOT recommend this service and will NOT change my review

every day the wireless data disconnects (text and talk still work)

Plus they gave a 7-day refund guarantee (I think only on the 3-month plan?) if it doesn't work out

but once I got a T-Mobile phone to be able to hook into the Wi-Fi in the house, it is awesome and the price is definitely right at $180 a year for service

So far after 30 days I am really liking the service and the much cheaper prices below the other companies

If I could sum up the Mint Mobile experience in one concise phrase it would be that - great price, terrible service

Lots of data, LTE coverage and a great price for prepaid

I am not sure if I will bother with another trial pack, I am nearly ready to go back to the criminals (ATT, Verizon etc.) and their outrageously priced plans and their HARD credit checks.

This is a great way to test if Mint Mobile works for your phone and your location

The $5 starter kit was a great way to test out the coverage in my area

Everything else about the service has been wonderful, but the way you treat your customers when YOU have made a mistake (that you acknowledged!) is downright disrespectful and a disgrace

This is a great way to test a network before you pulled the trigger!

This starter kit was a great way to get me interested in their program

We tried the starter kit first and it worked perfectly.

A cheap SIM kit and credit for the cost if you choose to sub.

If your lucky and your number ports, this kit is great.

This starter kit is great, but it only leads to something greater, which is Mint Mobile

Great starter kit to make sure you have a good coverage in your

love the service, only thing is that if you want to keep your number you have to purchase at least a 3 month membership..no free trial if you want to keep your number.

, there's no way I'm going to risk using this service, even if it's a free trial

I used phone for 2 days before deciding to switch to permanent plan - and get my $5 trial fee credited to the 1-year plan!I simply installed the second, "permanent" sim, entered some information, paid the required monthly or annual fee, and in 5 minutes, I was up-and-running on Mint Mobile with my current T-mobile number ported to Mint Mobile

The trial worked very well and she was happy with the service

I used it a little bit, but since the trial gives you a trial-specific number I did not use it much

Overall: If you have good T-Mobile coverage in your area, you consider yourself to be comfortable changing some settings on your phone, and you like saving serious money... then this is a good way to go

Great starter kit to make sure you have a good coverage in your

Very poor coverage, despite being in the area showed in their map coverage, the signal was very poor, 1 or 2 bars, and no coverage for some large moments

It allowed my girlfriend to find out that switching from the AT&T network to the T-Mobile network is not good for her, as the coverage in the area where she needs it most isn't as good

Thus far I would recommend this to anyone who does not need a lot of data who also does not travel to rural areas much as I know T-Mobile's coverage is hit or miss in those places once you deviate away from major highways (but even then coverage in my experience is highly subjective to the area, many are fine but on occasion random ones will be abysmal).

I have Metro PCS in San Francisco and Mint had much slower data

No more worries about a rogue app eating your monthly data allocation on carriers with a hard data cutoff.

After using up 2GB data, you get switched to slower speed data

If you're looking for a seamless experience, good data speeds, and consistently working features, however, you may want to consider looking elsewhere.

Getting good data service and happy with the price point.

HORRIBLE PRODUCT!

awesome deal, works off of T-Mobile, reliable and cheap!!

If you are able to do some light research/googling, don't mind rolling up your sleeves a little bit during the trial and activation process, are in a good T-Mobile coverage area and the trial SIM works well for you, this might be a good bet

product works for the trial period, but not after that.

I used phone for 2 days before deciding to switch to permanent plan - and get my $5 trial fee credited to the 1-year plan!I simply installed the second, "permanent" sim, entered some information, paid the required monthly or annual fee, and in 5 minutes, I was up-and-running on Mint Mobile with my current T-mobile number ported to Mint Mobile

I used phone for 2 days before deciding to switch to permanent plan - and get my $5 trial fee credited to the 1-year plan!I simply installed the second, "permanent" sim, entered some information, paid the required monthly or annual fee, and in 5 minutes, I was up-and-running on Mint Mobile with my current T-mobile number ported to Mint Mobile

I am giving it 4 stars for the service NOT their customer support

In short, trial sim works, porting number doesn't work, customer support is slow to respond and helpless

I prepaid 300 for the full-year plan after trying out the test SIM card, and the coverage is just as good as T-Mobile (same network, I believe).

I used phone for 2 days before deciding to switch to permanent plan - and get my $5 trial fee credited to the 1-year plan!I simply installed the second, "permanent" sim, entered some information, paid the required monthly or annual fee, and in 5 minutes, I was up-and-running on Mint Mobile with my current T-mobile number ported to Mint Mobile

Just need to provide my previous cell plan's account number and password (of course, also the cell phone number to be ported) directly through the mint apps

awesome deal, works off of T-Mobile, reliable and cheap!!

All I needed for the port in was my Account number and PIN

I asked for my account number and PIN and will be switching back to a reputable carrier

If you are able to do some light research/googling, don't mind rolling up your sleeves a little bit during the trial and activation process, are in a good T-Mobile coverage area and the trial SIM works well for you, this might be a good bet

Easy to install and port number, customer service was very helpful and it was activated in no time

The most scary part is porting number to mint, because we saw many negative experiences here and other forums

awesome deal, works off of T-Mobile, reliable and cheap!!

n’t sound like much, but before, I could hear people perfectly, but they couldn’t hear me half the time

We was expecting it could take days to port number, but surprisingly A

Maybe they are fine if all goes flawlessly, but if not, you are in for a horrible experience.

If you're looking for a seamless experience, good data speeds, and consistently working features, however, you may want to consider looking elsewhere.

This is the worst experience I've ever had on a prepaid phone service

The most scary part is porting number to mint, because we saw many negative experiences here and other forums

I hated my experience elsewhere and the funny part is that I was half expecting poor customer service from Mint Mobile because they don't charge anything for phone service however they are amazing to work with

was a bit tricky, because you require a phone number to activate the

When all checks out, just activate the second sim as you buy one of Mint's plans and port your previous phone number from your old carrier.

If you want to use an old phone number with Mint, you port the number as you activate your service

great bargain, why pay $60 a month when you can pay $15 a month for compatible service, please give this service a try you have nothing to loose, and you can keep your same phone number if you like.

In the meantime, I had no data and my phone number was stuck and unuseable