thats right, if it did have LTE would be a lot more competetive

The issue is the bandwith and throughput. 3g is being used to describe the speeds, but it could be easily delivered over LTE.

I get LTE when I roam with Fi... but I'm still capped at 256kbps, so I don't know if it really makes much of a difference.

Anyways I have unlimited AT&T roaming, so I don't really use my Fi much, but it works great everywhere and I don't get charged excessively.

The results I've seen for Fi in China and Hong Kong are seriously below the 256k cited.

I figure I'll still bring a mifi hotspot and get a local sim when I go anywhere, but having at least a little FI data when I arrive will help me find a local sim and how to get there.

I'm curious about using the app Speedify (or equivalent for a little channel bonding). Say you ordered an extra GoogleFi data SIM and put it in an unlocked Hotspot and bonded it with your iPhone or better yet bonded your Google Nexus, hotspot, and LTE Surface together. 512 up/down or 756 up/down could start getting tolerable.

Im having an issue with my Nexus and Fi..is anyone else having this problem:

When someone calls my phone, it rings their end, and goes to answer phone. Only time I know about this is when I get a voice mail. My phone is not on Do Not Disturb....happens when Im in plane mode and running wifi....this is a new thing...only started to happen last week. Had the phone since November and it worked fine.

The odd thing is that this does not happen with all calls...but most of them.

Anyone have any ideas?

^

I have a Nexus 6 and Fi. Most of my voice calls go to my other phone but my buddy has expressed frustration that I'm avoiding him or that I leave my phone in airplane mode too much as he gets sent to voice mail since my Fi number is the one he uses. No one else has given me feedback about that but they may not be as anxious to contact me so a voice mail is enough for them.

2 of the situations I know that I was not in airplane mode but was using bluetooth. Another time I had bluetooth on but the phone was in my locker in the gym. I'm not saying that bluetooth is the culprit but that was the common occurrence in those 3 instances but my buddy implies that it happens more often. We tried to replicate it but to no avail.

Thanks for the reply. I didnt even think of the bluetooth as the issue. Looking back it started when I turned that on...however I just checked and its off. I'll monitor it for next few days and see what happens.

Cheers for the heaeds up ^

My first international data impression from Fi was not positive. Was in puerto vallarata, mexico, and data was essentially unusable. Phone showed 5 bars of signal and sometimes indicated a data connection was in use, but trying to even pull up the main google search page only worked about 1 out of 10 times. I would occasionally get emails that were automatically synced in the background, but a simple search or google maps use just timed out most of the time.

Didn't matter much as the resort had surprisingly awesome wifi (both speed and coverage were excellent), but had I needed it, I would have been very disappointed.

what carrier and was it a supported device?

I am in Bermuda and it is working great. VOIP over 3g is working. The data is HSPA and serviceable. The funny thing is that Google thinks that I am in Jamaica.

PS: My Speedify idea worked.

Not sure what carrier it was hooking into, I didn't bother looking. The device was a nexus 6p, so basically the flagship phone for Fi.

Who really want to use Fi Spy or one of the equivalent programs to see what carriers you are hooking onto. Otherwise, the phone hides this from you with a custom alpha tag, eg "Fi Network"

Project Fi is now invite-free and you can get the Nexus 5x for $199/$249 if you purchase and activate service between now and April 7th:

http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/...o-invites.html