Since these promotion deadlines are starting to approach everyone should check their special promotions page https://fi.google.com/account#specialpromo to verify their account is qualifying. My initial phone got lost by FedEx and a second was shipped to me so the fi system shows that I didn't activate my phone by the deadline. It's been a bit of an easy but drawn-out resolution so far.

Youtube works fine now (and the ads are in Thai - sort of useless for me ;) ) Yes definitely a google ban

They could have said that the credit would appear on the 3rd month rather than after 1 month of service - would have avoided hours of my time with cs - and I'm sure multiplied by many - maybe the cs numbers wouldn't have been so tied up if they just did what they said :(

Thanks for this link. It's the first place I've seen where I have confirmation of 3 travel cards shown on one page.

But it does not have the $200 for my BYOD phone. Hmmm. I do have a chat log where an agent says I'll get the credit on Day 60, so there's that...

The $200 promo didn't show up on my promotions screen either but i did get it in email and actual credit on my account along with a few other credits.

I can't even get to that link... it just redirect me back to my account page when I click it. Maybe because I got the $200 already and the page is gone??

I've used Fi sporadically, and it works. I'm using a flagship carrier for my main service, with Fi on second SIM slot as secondary/backup service.

Roaming in EU is virtually free with my carrier by regulation, so I don't turn on the 2nd SIM often. But sometimes I don't get good strength even in home country, such as 2G/EDGE (=virtually useless), and there Fi usually grabs 4G/LTE signal from TMobile.

Sustained bandwidth is usually decent at 5, 10, 20, 40mbps....but ping is ALWAYS at 200ms+ maybe do do extra switching and hopping and routing....

Huh, other than a half day where I couldn't get data, I've had good Fi service in Singapore. Hopefully it's just a transient blip.

The whole deal of having to put the sim in the pixel to get it to work in a "compatible" phone is SO weird (as well as some of the stuff you helped me with in Thailand- thanks).
IME fi support is pretty useless - can't work out any problem - for example I have a problem with vm (among many others) - they don't have a clue and seem to have no mechanism for working out anything on a 'compatible" phone. By contrast when I had issues with tmo they had a record every time I called of what I had reported and whether or not they had feedback from whoever it had been escalated to - fi assigns a new case # for every contact AND THEY ARE NOT CROSS LINKED so they have no idea what has been done for a particular problem
People with pixels seem to have great service - but with a "compatible" I'm going to use up my credit (if I can stand it) then switch to a service that works - eg lets me use my phone as a phone - vm, text, able to make and receive calls, oh and use wifi calling when out of the country (and no hangouts is not the substitute b/c it is blocked in many of the countries I frequent)

Now that iPhones are basically allowed by Fi, why should you have to put a SIM in a Pixel to reset it?

Compatible phones are still in beta so there are going to be problems, glitches and network conflicts. The pixel phones & fi network were designed to work together.

One of my Fi lines is on an iPhone 7. We haven't had any problems. If we're missing any of the automatic network-switching functionality, it hasn't impacted the user experience for us. Data speed is fine. Texts/calls work fine.

Google Fi SIM cards now available at Best Buy:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/google-...?skuId=6325631