Fleeing the Plantation

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A $30 Android phone does perform better than the free gubmint fone though. Lol

Absolutely. The 'smart' phone that the providers offer are complete garbage. Luckily, you don't have to use that one. 
The sim can be put into any phone you have. I have one and use it in my iphone. 

Another 'freegubmint' thing they have now is free internet based on income or assistance in your state. 
I think it's called ACP or something (affordable connection program). https://www.fcc.gov/acp

Went from paying almost 80 a month to zero. Speed is decent (3Mbps/30mbps), streams without buffering, no lag if I decide 
to play a game (rarely) and a 2gigabyte (compressed) 1080p movie takes about 20 minutes to download I think, so it's free and
I'm not too proud to beg, ha... The other day I prepared and ate petit filet mignon courtesy of our local food pantry (which also
gave me 2lbs of ground meat). 

I bet there's a decent phone that's unlocked for resale you can get the sim, call your provider and switch the sim over
to the phone you get. I'm still using a 4g iphone. I don't use the data that much in public except for using gps to find a 
location. In the house it's always connected to wifi. If I run out of minutes, I just use wifi to make a google voice call, or
if I have a contact with an iphone, facetime is the clearest VOIP I've come across. 

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Used-Unlocked...hbdg=L1600 This one's $75 (used)
I don't like apple products but I dislike android operating system even more. Iphone are terrible if you're running a windows pc and want to
transfer pictures/data. That's one thing I liked about androids; easy to transfer any file type to or from the phone.