Talk:United States/@comment-24682153-20190108235128

To the user who keeps on adding "Mint Mobile" at the bottom of this article:

First of all this is a referral list. So that users can easily find their operator in the different sub-articles. It doesn't make sense to refer to an operator that is not mentioned on the sub-article. Maybe you'd like to suggest to add "Mint Mobile" to the T-Mobile page?.

I've looked into them when they started about 2 or 3 years ago. They are reselling T-Mobile's network with quite competitive prices. But there are there major issues that are against our guidelines here:

1.) they are not real prepaid, but "hybrid prepaid". This means they need to be linked to a credit card. US providers are known to not accept all major credit cards from overseas, but can be very picky about some countries. So this can't be assured and is their only way to pay them (as there are no refill vouchers).

2.) their offer is more like a rolling contract with a minimum term of 3, 6 or 12 months. They don't offer a monthly option. All data add-ons can only be started/terminated on the monthly start date of the plan a.s.o.

3.) they are online-only without the chance to buy them in a store. So a US postal address is required. These online-only providers proved to be inconvenient for travellers on the road.

So please understand that these three criteria make it impossible to be listed here. I can live with a minor offence against our rules, but with three of them, it's an easy call not to list them.