I was on AT&T for a long time. Was spending ~$125/mo for 2 iPhone phone lines after taxes and fees.

Now I am on Mint Mobile, and it's honestly been fantastic. I pay about $120/month (pre-paid for 6 months though) for 5 lines now (kids!), with way more cell data per line. Each line can be on a different plan, too! Very occasionally a text message will be a bit delayed, but I mostly use iMessage anyways. Have not had any other issues. Well worth it. I highly recommend the switch. You'll save a ton of money.

> Sure you can go with an MVNO, but they use the same networks as the big three.

The networks are not the issue in my experience with phone companies. Much of the negativity is associated with dealing with the support side of things. To that end, I couldn't be happier with Google Fi. I've moved my whole family over (except for my dad, who just wants to use a dumbphone and doesn't even have a google account). They're the least bad support-wise in my experience.

I keep two lines for better coverage when traveling. A few years back, I switched to Mint and Visible (T-Mobile and Verizon), and haven’t looked back.

Yes, they’re the same networks, but my experience as a customer is significantly better and I’m spending significantly less than I was before. I spend less on both lines combined than I spent with Verizon in the past.

In the years since I made the switch, I’ve often wondered why I didn’t do it sooner.

> Plus I manage my families lines and migrating is just a pain in the ass

It's not that much work.

It's easy enough that I've migrated my number to my own carrier a number of times when they've offered rates only applicable to new customers. (i.e. port my number out to a prepaid carrier, then port it back to my carrier as a "new customer".)

> In the US, you don’t have many options.

The US have three networks, I believe, Denmark has three networks as well. Both have a number of MVNOs. For some reason pricing for service in the US is just crazy.

I pay 119DKK or ~20USD for unlimited talk and SMS, plus 30GB of data (and 30GB of data abroad in pretty much any country) per month. My American colleagues starts pondering getting a local SIM, when travelling, because data is expensive, both at home and when travelling. I see people on websites commenting "Make sure you're on wifi" ... WHY, data costs almost nothing, you can get free data for 35USD. Except you can't, not in the US at least.

Why is cell service so expensive in the US? I get that it's a big country, and it would cost more to build out the network, but there's also more people and you don't exactly need to cover the middle of the desert or random fields with anything but 2G.