@JackQuint wrote:
Will you actually use 1GB a month? For the most part, I would think your tablet would be used on WiFi (eg. home, etc).
If you think you will use less than that, I have a different solution. Buy No Talk/No Text/No Data for $10/month (or $19 for 90 days) and the $30 1GB LTE add-on. For a tablet you might want LTE and not 3G. If you use 500MB/month, it works out to $18/month with Autopay.
Doesn't make sense if you use more than that because $30 for 1GB is actually expensive, but if you don't anticipate consuming much data and need it only for occasional use when WiFi's not available and you don't feel like tethering it works out well.
@JackQuint
This doesn't work the way you described it: You can't have an active plan without any features, you must choose at least one of the three.
Also, your numbers are off... 500Mb/month = $30 divided by 2, not by 3.
If you want to go the add-on route, you better get the $10 50minutes/50texts plan. (It becomes $8 if you enable auto pay.) Adding the $30 1GB data add-on will still not be very economical if you can get 1GB per month with talk and text for $23 (with auto pay) or 250MB, 100 minutes and unlimited text for $13 (with auto pay)...
My vote is for the $15/3GB tablet plan from the competition mentioned earlier.
For what it's worth, small data amounts like this would be used up in minutes for anything that actually benefits from full LTE (HD streaming, real time gaming or transferring huge files). For the average usage pattern, Public Mobile's 3G speed plans are absolutely adequate. E-mail, social media, messaging, VoIP, music streaming and lower resolution videos work flawlessly on Public Mobile's LTE light. I prefer to call them LTE light because you still use LTE where available, it's just throttled to 3Mbps (you potentially get higher speeds if you force your phone to a 3G only connection).
