I thought the gotcha was that the texts and phone calls go through their app. It is sent to your phone as data. when I used the app a year or two ago, it had accessibility problems with unlabeled buttons and misreading contacts.
Kelly On 6/3/16, Donald L. Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > My iPhone 6 is doing fine on Verizon, but I wanted a free or very low > cost backup phone service exclusively for phone calls and text messages. > > > I keep getting promotional announcements from Freepop. In the past, I > had ignored these because I thought that Freepop ran exclusively on the > Sprint network which I think is a variant of CDMA. But now Freepop is > offering a low cost sim and states it will run on most GSM phones, so > they must have purchased space on either A T and T or on T Mobile. > > > I guess what I want to know is whether their free service is truly > free. If not, what are the gotchas? I have an old Nokia N82 which I > intend to use for this backup phone service. this is for backup, not my > primary phone service. > > > Feedback is much appreciated. > > > Don Roberts > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
