Tello Mobile - US Prepaid SIM Card (3 in 1) | Bring Your Own Phone Kit | Phone Plans Starting at $5/mo up to $25/mo | Nation-Wide 4G LTE/5G Coverage

This tello $3 purchase has been a game changer for my family. My wife, 18 year old child, and I had previously been customers of another pay as you cell service. Honestly the service was great but with our family of 6 we didn't always have the resources to pay for a year at a time to get the benefit of the cheaper price. Enter tello! We can pay by the month. I started first and have since purchased two more cards for my wife and 18 year old child. We are more than pleased. They use the same towers as our last plan, T-Mobile, so we notice no difference in service, and since we are pay as you go monthly, we can afford the $45 unlimited internet for the summer (truthfully though there was a feature of 3 months of unlimited for $45, regularly $25). We needed the extra data because our littles burn it up on their tablets while we traveled and camped. Since it is pay as you go, we can tone down the data and save tons of money using one phone's hotspot as we will soon get back into our back to school vibe. And...they have visual voicemail! We love it! My wife and I use Android, and our 18 year old iOS, and there is no problems at all to report and we have been happy customers all summer. Don't cancel your service but try it out for a month and see what you think? It's only $3 for the SIM, what have you got to lose but ties to Big Data!!

That was the easiest cell phone activation I have ever done and I have had a mobil phone since they 1st started in Dallas back in 1984. Up and working within 10 minutes of activating the sim card, porting my old number and phone to Tello. Works great!! No issues with data speed or quality of voice when calling.

I've just set this up with the TCL Go Flip 2 4058G 8GB Factory Unlocked 4G LTE GSM Smart Flip Phone (also purchased on Amazon), and it works perfectly! Time will tell how good the coverage truly is. I bought the phone for my kids, who are now a little older and may need to make a quick call to me from one of their activities after school. This was the perfect solution for a cheap phone and service that will likely only be used once or twice a month.

This is a legit review, and I am giving it 5 stars.Easy to install & activate, the Tello plan options are great. I got this to activate a new (to me, used Samsung) tablet to have as a 2nd option and a backup if my phone is lost or dies while I'm RV'ing as I depend on Google Maps access.I've got a minimal Tello plan, $10 per month, I'll bump it up when I hit the road in November.Changing plans couldn't be easier, canceling two days before autobilling rollover is simple, they send a reminder.Tello uses the T-mobile network, the only downside might be that Tello does not share the T-mobile "partner" carriers when traveling for roaming.

All these reviews are hilarious.5-stars: like someone said, "what's up with all the 5-star reviews?" I agree.....2-star and 1-star: I these people don't know how cell phones and cell networks work.Here's my experience. I'm very pro-privacy so I know a thing or two about how the phones work, how the operating systems work, and how the networks work.I have 4 Tello cards. Long story short, I was only able to activate the first card (as a test). My intentions for this service is to have cellular backup, using cellular routers instead of cellular phones for when we have ISP outages, which we have experienced more frequently in the last couple years: slow is better than none.I had no issues with the first card. The card costed me $2 to my door, then a $10 plan for 2GB and a phone number, for testing. One of my kids is currently using it as a backup phone, so it is currently working. About the phone, it is an eBay special Motorola G7, blah blah blah, unlocked, I flashed LineageOS 21 on it. It's working fine.The next card I tried activating without a phone number, 2GB data-only. This card showed "Pending" for 24 hours, then dropped off my history. Keep in mind, there is no phone involved at this point. The third card, same issue. I even set up a new account to activate, since Amazon will only sell you one card (per purchase), so I thought maybe Tello only allows one card per household. Long story short, I was only able to activate the original card. The other cards are destined for the rubbish bin.Just some education for those who aren't aware, your old AT&T phone, for example, won't work with Tello unless you unlock it first. They are "carrier-locked", to bind you to the service until the end of your contract. Your old T-Mobile phone will probably work, since Tello works over the T-Mobile network, I've never used T-Mobile so I couldn't say 100%.As far as frequencies, I bought a Xiaomi phone about a year ago, hoping to use a really nice phone, but apparently, the frequencies they use don't match US carriers, so some phones like the Xiaomi phones, none of them will work at all, due to the radios. Yes, check to make sure your phone uses US frequencies. If your bought them in the US, they will probably work.I have a Brax Mototola G7 phone and they reset the IMEI, so as far as I know, all the carriers say the "IMEI is invalid", otherwise, your IMEI should be fine is you haven't messed with it. MOST people are not savvy enough to mess with the IMEI, so "invalid IMEI" is pretty rare.As far as customer service, the activation shows "Pending" for about 24 hours, then drops off my history. The last card I tired said "Pending", then "Refunded". You have to option to call them or email them. When I reached out to them via email, they asked to verify my identity. At face value, this seems reasonable, but having not been able to activate 3 out of 4 cards, already having my name, phone number, address from my first card, what more personal information do they want? Let alone, "they don't know me", what more information can they use to "verify me"? Personal data harvesting much? Back to the "Refunded" comment: their website says you don't get charged until you are successfully activated. The last card I tried was never activated, why would I get a refund, unless they charged me before a successful activation?In conclusion, if you are lucky enough to get one of these cards activated, it is fine as long as you're not doing anything demanding with it. I don't use SMS for privacy-reasons either, so I would only order data-only for these services. Perhaps they don't want to sell you "data-only plans". I'm off to find another service and throw all these cards away.

I had MetroPCS on my Huawei p30 pro international version and now I have Tello on it. I mainly plan to use the service for data. No complaints yet.