Ting GSM SIM card – Average monthly bill is $23. No contract, Universal SIM, Nationwide coverage, Only pay for what you use.

Ting is one of those rare really awesome ideas that managed to succeed and become a really awesome company. The concept is simple: pay $6 a month for each line you want or need (you can have one, two, four, ten, or twenty—there's no artificial limit). You pay for a fairly granular bucket of minutes, messages, and megabytes up to a certain point. Those little buckets start at $3 for a hundred minutes, $3 for a hundred messages, and $3 for a hundred megabytes and step up gradually from there. If you happen to go over 2100 minutes, 4800 messages, or 2 gigabytes of data, your pricing switches to a simple per minute (1.9¢), per message (¼¢), and per megabyte (1.5¢) pricing.If you did the subtle math there (unlimited number of devices plus super granular pricing), you might have figured out Ting's magic: it can be an especially amazing deal once you get beyond a line or two, because the big carriers pack in so much of their profit in per-line and unlimited talk/text fees. Stick to WiFi wherever possible and give Google Hangouts a try (which is also available for iOS, or just use FaceTime and iMessage on iPhone) to keep your usage even lower (and save even more!).Full disclosure: I used to work with the fine folks at Ting (but now work for a friendly competitor). Which brings me to my last point: the customer service is phenomenal. Ting doesn't outsource its customer service, so everyone on the support team is passionate about Ting. When you call, you speak with one person who can help get your question answered. No being transferred and bounced around. No "sorry, my department doesn't handle that." It's a model for awesome customer service, and it's honestly worth the cost of the SIM and the $6 monthly fee for at least one month just to experience how awesome customer service can be...Grab your current wireless bill. Use the calculator on Ting's site to figure out how much your bill would be there. Most folks would save, even with just one line. If the math works for your usage patterns, give Ting a try. I promise you won't regret it!

The change from AT&T to Ting has been an interesting transiton. I understand that this is a review of the SIM, but I would want someone to review the service as well, so I will. First off, the SIM arrived when it was expected to. Activation and porting was simple, considering I was dealing with AT$T. I expected a charge to transfer my number. There was a delay in activation, but that was due to lack of cell signal in my area. Keep in mind that I've had Ting for nearly a month, so not an entire billing cycle yet. I will update this after my first bill.PROS:The most important thing is that Ting is a great company. They are living, breathing, human beings. There is no robot answering machine. I've called and spoke with them twice now. They picked up by the third or fourth ring, and were very pleasant and expedient.The next best thing is the price. You control the price through usage and by implementing alerts/limits. I was paying AT&T around $110.00 for 1 phone on the mobile share value plan. I had to remove a line and lower my data, as well as pay off a device to get that price. I was paying nearly $175.00 before that. So, all in all, I'm paying about $140.00 less after the change. With apples to apples though, my savings are between $70-$80 a month. So, my anticipated bill is $37.00 a month.I know there are other post-paid usage based plans out there, but Ting stood out proudly among them. They were the only ones that I found that offered both GSM and CDMA reception.CONS:It would be unfair not to include cons, so I will.First (and this is probably lack of due diligence on my part), I don't have simultaneous access to talk AND data. I'm used to being able to check my email while dealing with someone on the phone, or map something while talking with my wife. This is probably possible if I'm connected to wifi while talking, but my situation is such that I'm never talking on the phone while connected to wifi, unless I'm using Hangouts, which for obvious reasons, I'm not using Ting minutes at the time.The second negative is much more annoying, but for the price and customer service compared to my other options, this is far from being a deal breaker. I was under the impression that my reception with Ting would be comparable to or exceed AT&T considering Ting accesses other providers. I have found however that it is worse. Mind you, AT&T is horrendous in my area as it is. So again, I'm getting exactly what I pay for.It all works out in the end though. I was paying a flat amount for unlimited calling and texting, but not using enough to justify it. Also the data was overpriced, and I wasn't using it all. So with Ting, you literally get what you pay for, or rather you pay for what you get. That's usually used in a negative sense, but in this case the saying is on the money.

I never write reviews but I just had to point out this absurdity.I am not a resident of the USA but had to travel there for 6 months for work. I wanted to obtain a US phone number for verification processes related to my bank.So I bought a Ting sim card.Turns out that the activation of the sim card requires you to make an account on their website. Fine for me.However what blows my mind is that they require a contact number to create the account, and that contact number doesn't accept any other format than US numbers.So I need an already working US number to activate my sim card that I bought precisely to get a US number.I contacted customer support about the situation. Long story short, they suggested me to first get a US contact number through other means (friends, other messaging apps) then modify my account information (contact number) once the account is created.So as of now, I still can't activate my sim card, I wasted my time and money and all activation guides on the official help.ting website fail to mention this required "contact number". Even the screenshots on the website from the "Activating with a new Ting number" page, updated January 31 2019, do not have that "contact number" box, even though it is clearly there if you open a new tab.

Best for travel to the USOnly works in US for now, use T-mobile network, check your spectrum before you buyno cancelation, no plan, pay for what you used, no pre-bundled data/talk