I was reading up on Bill Protection and noticed the following:

Note: The data you use outside of the U.S. is charged separately from your monthly data budget, which covers data use only within the U.S.

Does this imply that international data use isn't covered? Or are there effectively two "buckets" that are both capped at $60 (depending on number of lines) each? Any experience with that?

I "assume" int'l data is included within Bill Protection.. based on
what I read below..

Quote below was taken from Google's own website regarding
Bill Protection:

https://www.blog.google/products/pro...ll-protection/

"Finally, Bill Protection still applies to all of the Project Fi
goodies you love, including high speed data in 135+ countries"

:)

Cell coverage
 

Hey, I've seen some mention that if when you're travelling with the sim, if you wanted to get a local sim you can pause your google Fi service, and not even pay the $20 a month. Is that correct?

I'm actually based in London for the most part, but have a vacation home in the US. So my idea is to use Project Fi when I'm in the US and travelling internationally, but when I'm in the UK/Europe, just to use my regular service and totally pause Fi. Is that doable? (I dont really care about calls coming through from my US number).

Secondly, I only have an iphone X, are there any recent reports of issues with them using a Fi sim?

Edit: Thirdly. I see you can only get a data only sim with an account sign up. Can I sign up, and pause the $20/month calling, but keep a data sim active? that I could put into a wifi hotspot or ipad...

You can pause fi service at any time. It automatically restarts I think at 60 days but you can repause it again and they do send you email reminds that it will be happening.

You have to activate Fi service on a Nexus, Moto or Pixel phone. You can then put it in an iPhone with limited network connections and some limited reports of problems.

When you pause the service you pause all of it.

I have a cellspot in rural texas, when our OTA all you can eat internet slows down, the cell spot will provide similar speeds to our optimal OTA speeds. I have never seen cellspot speeds better than our wireless rural OTA internet. Can't wait for 5G.

I was in Marrakesh last week and service was strong and fast. I had my Pixel 2 setup as a hotspot for my family and there were no issues with coverage or speed.

Just as a follow up to my prior post about customer service - they charged me for a device I never received $812! and then did nothing when I asked for a refund. I disputed the charge and they suspended my account. Made me send a copy of my photo ID and credit card to get it reinstated. So much for customer service.

Our household has T-Mo and Project FI, so I can answer this:

T-Mobile's Cellspot marketing is very confusing as they essentially have 3 models.

1. The Wifi Cell Spot you have is basically just an Asus router that has the QOS setting adjusted to optimize T-Mobile's Wifi Calling. Google FI doesn't use this wifi calling method and this will have no effect on your cellular reception. The unit you have is ONLY helpful to t-mobile customers who use wifi calling. Even then, the improvement is marginal vs other modern routers.
2. There is a "repeater"... which I forget what is called. Basically you put one end in a part of the house with reception, then it repeats the cellular signal. This never worked for me as I have crappy reception all over the house.
3. The BEST option is the 4G LTE cellspot. This option is essentially a mini cell tower in your house (about the size of a router). It uses a wired ethernet connection to your home wired internet as backhaul. This tower can be used by up to 10 people simultaneously (I think 10)... including other T-Mobile subscribers outside your household but within range. This ALSO works great w/ project fi. We got the 4G LTE cellspot for my wife due to the poor reception for her t-mo phone in our house... it benefits my Project FI as well (when I'm roaming on t-mo not sprint).

Someone on Reddit asked this same question and several people told them that the bill protection seems to kick in overseas as well. That thread actually made me re-sign up for FI after having been on T-Mo for 6 months.

According to TMo they provide the 4G LTE cellspot to "qualified customers". Does this include Google Fi customers? I had to cancel and move to AT&T because I couldn't get Fi service in my apartment. I would transfer back if I could and perhaps this device would allow me to? But can I get it?

As far as I know, you have to be a T-Mobile proper customer. Like I said, we have the device due to the fact my wife is on T-Mo

Reading conflicting info here, I've read that if you buy a second hand phone that has previously been used to activate Fi you wont be able to activate your own service.

However, I'm also reading that if you activate you should keep the phone because if someone else activates with that handset you'll get cut off. So which is it?

I'm torn between buying a very cheap used handset (recommendations for the cheapest basic one to activate with?) and just running it in my iphone X

or buying something like the Moto X4 and using and keeping that.

Does anyone know of any way for me to foward calls to my Fi number to a uk cell phone? -my uk company now has free roaming in the states, so while I'm there I'd rather use that and just have Fi as a local number for people to get me on the uk handset to avoid carrying 2 phones.

The intention is to use Fi when I'm travelling.

Last time I checked no way to forward to a foreign number. Don't know why. separately I just got back from Paris where the service was so-so. No LTE anywhere.

A Fi phone cannot be active on 2 accounts at once. This is a Reddit thread with an answer from the Dev for Signal Spy app, which is super useful on an Android Fi phone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/c...ect_fi_before/