Project Fi Opened Up to All G Suite Users in US
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Project Fi Opened Up to All G Suite Users in US

Signing up for Project Fi has been limited to users with “@gmail.com” addresses, but moving forward, Google is opening up the service to all G Suite users in the US. Thanks to this, if you utilize G Suite and have your own domain, you can now sign up to use Project Fi.

With this move, if a small business with less than 6 employees wants to sign up, too, that is also doable. By default, Project Fi is “off,” so just be sure to have the G Suite administrator enable it on the accounts.

Stated by Google in the blog post, “While Project Fi had been available to users with @gmail.com addresses, starting today we’re making G Suite compatible with Project Fi, allowing users (currently US only) to sign up with their G Suite accounts (e.g. you@yourdomain.com).”

According to Google, this support should be available to every single G Suite user in the US within the next 15 days.

Signing yourself or your small business up for Fi?

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  • I think there are some good reasons to join Fi, but cost isn’t one of them. The only (new) phone available for use on the network costs $650, while there are plenty of very good phones for sale for under $300. If you add in the unavoidable extra money for the phone, Fi is not the cheapest service any more. Not much different from what I pay for AT&T. It would be nice if Google would offer a new phone with Nexus-level pricing for use on Fi.

  • Here’s a $20 referral credit for anyone interrested in getting Fi… code: U073R8

    • You need a Pixel/Nexus phone to activate the SIM, but you can move it to any GSM phone. But once you do, you lose the cell switching tech and other benefits, but it will still work.

  • Nope, had it got way too expensive. If you don’t use much data its a decent service. Their “smartSIM” isn’t as smart as they want it to be. My phone very often fought between WifI and cellular calling in my house. Often taking more than 3 min to finish the fight and actually connect a call.

    • “If you don’t use much data its a decent service.”

      If you don’t use more than 1GB of data a month, it’s (I think) the cheapest service. I know T-Mobile has their prepaid plans, but if you don’t use data, your bills are always $25-$27 after taxes.

      I cannot recommend Fi enough for anyone who is around WiFi all day or doesn’t use more than 1GB of data in a month. The cell service is phenomenal and their customer service is one of the best I’ve ever had to deal with.

      • Have you tried traveling internationally with it? That would be the only time I’d want to use fi.

        • My girlfriend just got back from Italy. No service problems over there and data was charged the same. She was on WiFi at her hotels/hostels and video calling via Hangouts was not an issue.

          I haven’t used Fi internationally yet though.

        • I used it all over Ireland last year. Worked great! Made a couple calls over WiFi, but mostly used it to navigate and search for interesting tourist spots while on the road. Verizon wanted to charge me a ridiculous amount of money for inferior coverage and speeds.
          As a ~2GB monthly user, Fi makes good financial sense to me.

        • My girlfriend has it and it worked well in Mexico. I havent had it though because Im on google apps(suite) and am a bit hesitant to give up my Google Voice functionality.

          • You cant have both on your account, it states it. If you google it there is a page from google about what features are supported from Google Voice. Basically its really just having messages in hangouts. No call screening, no ringing to any registered phones, etc.

            I guess I could setup a second account and try running it through that, not sure if you can do that.

        • I used it all over europe and it was a life saver, not having to worry at all about having service (well, mostly) made travel so much easier. Popped a data only sim (free, uses same data) into my wife’s iphone and she was set as well

        • My girlfriend and I used it in Spain for two weeks last December and it worked flawlessly. Streamed Premier League matches while on the train from Madrid to Barcelona with ease, though there were a few pockets in the countryside that didn’t have service.

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