One of Google Fi’s original appeals was to frequent international travelers, and it’s now running a feedback survey geared at those users.
As a Google Fi customer, we’d love to hear about your experience using Google Fi internationally. Your opinions and feedback are very much appreciated, as involvement in service feedback and improvements is key to better understanding your needs.
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Top comment by thebowelggedone
I've been a Google Fi customer since November 2015 and I love it. It's not necessarily the cheapest plan around, but it's good if you don't need a lot of data and you travel internationally as long as you don't exceed their limits. I'm going out of the country for like 38 days in a few days to do a little digit nomad working abroad from "home". I swapped my plan over to the unlimited plus since I'll have 2 lines and my data only sim I use in a portable hotspot. I know they do limit you to having a max number of days consecutively outside the country, but a lot of services cap things at about 3 months/90 days like most of my credit cards too. The only downside of Google Fi is it's limited if you want to swap to an iPhone which I've never done, but have strongly considered.
The survey starts with the MVNO asking “how satisfied were you with Google Fi while traveling in the past 3 months?” from very satisfied to very dissatisfied. Google later asks you to specify the region/continent, duration, and plan you’re on.
The company then asks about issues you might have encountered, as well as what worked well:
- Call coverage and/or quality (e.g., dropped calls)
- Data speed and/or coverage (e.g., no LTE or 5G)
- International rates
- Sending and/or receiving texts
- Roaming restrictions
- Could not activate internationally
You can leave written feedback later on, with one of Google Fi’s historic pain points relating to having “international capabilities suspended” if a “majority of your usage occurs outside of the United States over a consecutive 90 day period.”
Of Google Fi’s three plans today, all offer “data, calls & texts within the US, Canada & Mexico.” Flexible and Unlimited Plus offer “data while traveling outside US, Canada & Mexico,” and both also provide free texting when traveling outside those three countries.
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