re: Currently a Mobile Phone Free Agent - Who should I pick?

I recently bought the Pixel XL and highly recommend that phone. I am an Android person. For phones, I just prefer Android over iOS. If you are thinking about Android, go with Pixel/Pixel XL.

I was a sprint customer - $60 for unlimited everything/month (had some discounts through work). I switched to Google's Project Fi. I did so for a couple of reasons:

1) I looked at my monthly data usage for last one year. I was using somewhere around 1GB/month. So Project Fi will cost me around $30 for month for unlimited talk/text and 1 GB of data. If I go over that in some months, I will still pay an additional $10. I have never used more than 2GB in any month during the last one year.
2) Project Fi uses Spring/TMobile/Some other career. So I was guaranteed that my new coverage is guaranteed to be at least as good as my current service.
3) This is the big one - I will travel to India this December. My Project Fi phone should work out of the box there without me having to get a local sim (which is a hassle) or pay the international roaming to Sprint.
4) I got an additional data-only sim card for no charge that I am using in my iPad. Both the sim cards share the same data cap/usage. This was feature was just gravy, would have switched to Project Fi if this was not the case.

I have had Google Pixel XL and Project Fi for three weeks now and am very happy with it so far.