• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago
    1. SMS and classic calls are dying. Things moved to Discord, Instagram, Snapchat, or whatever else for the most part
    2. Burner SIM, or better yet, burner eSIM. Maybe VoIP would suffice.

    And the original SIM could still be used in some cheap older phone.

    Although it seems everything in the US is a plan, meaning monthly payments. But perhaps I haven’t looked far enough.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 day ago

        Well, probably my mistake calling it a plan, but it seems all of them are subscriptions at least. Even “pay as you go” cards I found have monthly payments.
        It seems the cheapest was T-Mobile PayGo, but that got sold to Ultra Mobile. I don’t know what they offer though because there’s an infinite captcha on their website for me. But from Google preview it seems they still offer the $3/month PayGo.

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          56 minutes ago

          Not seen any with required monthly payments here in the UK. But there are optional ones.