Xfinity Mobile service is a hybrid wireless service owned and operated by Comcast, which combines the use of Verizon's cellular network with a network of 18 million Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots. The data service automatically switches between whichever is available.
Plan Information
Xfinity Mobile is available to all Xfinity customers with a postpaid subscription to a residential XFINITY Internet service. So if you do not have Comcast cables in a stationary neighborhood, this service is not available to you.
However, you can cancel the home cable and internet portion and keep Xfinity mobile, but a "$20 per line monthly charge applies if at least one of the following post-pay subscriptions are not maintained on the account: Xfinity TV, Internet or Voice service."
Unlimited talk and text are included on all plans.
Xfinity mobile also allows tablets and smartwatches for an additional $10/month plus the plan fee.
Currently Available Plans:
- By the Gig Plan - 10 GB, $60/mo
- Unlimited (20GB high-speed data) - $45/month
Plan Specifications:
- Carrier Networks Used: Verizon & Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots
- Carrier Relationship: MVNO + Direct Wi-Fi hotspots
- Plan Types Available: Smartphones, tablets, watches
- Device Types Permitted: Smartphones, tablets, watches
- Unlimited: Yes, but with high-speed data cap at 20GB
- High-Speed Mobile Hotspot Use: Yes
- By the Gig: All data on plan
- Unlimited: None. Mobile hotspot data always throttled to 600kbps.
- Throttling: On all plans, after 20 GB of monthly data use, speeds are reduced to a maximum of 1.5 Mbps download/750 kbps upload, determined and applied on a per-line basis.
- Network Management: Always ($20/month upgrade option to remove this is available)
- Video Streaming Resolution:
- By-The-Gig plans: 720p phones; 1080p tablets
- Unlimited plan: 480p
- 5G Access: Yes, where 5G is available and with a 5G capable device
- Device Purchase Required: zmp
- Plan Period: Monthly
- International Roaming: The plans and devices are internationally capable, and Comcast offers international roaming rates for talk, text, and data-based upon the country. Customers must call Xfinity to activate international roaming.
- Domestic Roaming: None, use is limited to native Verizon towers (not roaming partners) and the network of Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots.
- Data Roll Over: No
- Overage Charges: None. If you are not on the unlimited plan, data is $12/GB.
- Lines permitted per account: 5
- Extras:
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