What Are the Trade-Offs with Cheap Cell Phone Service?

Keith D. Wilson
4 min readMar 8, 2021
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Is it worth it to pay big bucks to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile when you can save hundreds of dollars a year by using an MVNO?

First of all, what is an MVNO? MVNO stands for Mobile Virtual Network Operator. Basically, it’s a company that buys phone and data service wholesale from one or more of the Big Three (AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile) cell phone providers and resells that…

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Keith D. Wilson

I’m just a tech-minded guy with a wicked sense of humor and curiosity about tech, science, sci-fi, politics, and other stuff.