It was a hot topic in the first half of the year. Communication operation has been monopolized by the three domestic giants for a long time. The entry of virtual operators has injected a new vitality into the dull operator market. The author was full of expectations for this. As soon as Snail Mobile launched the "999 free card", it immediately bought one“ ”, but there has been no refund.
The slogan of Snail Mobile is very attractive. To be honest, I just saw it promote "free voice all over the country for half a year"（ If you find a girlfriend, you can use it if you want to talk on the phone! ）Just started! Never envy the unlimited voice call duration of AT&T anymore.
But is the reality as beautiful as the propaganda?
Shipment I placed an order for payment on April 11, when the price was 399 yuan. After searching the whole website, I saw the official description:
After the pre purchase money is automatically paid as the purchase money and has passed the real name system review, Within three working days Deliver the goods according to the delivery address you reserved. Please pay attention to the official website announcement and order status.
I thought with joy that I could get it in a week, but I didn't receive any news. I called customer service and was told that the goods would not be delivered until early June! When the goods were delivered in early June, they were transferred to Beijing due to job changes, and the copies of ID cards were required to sign for receipt, which could only be returned at last.
Next... during this period, two snail customer service personnel called me to confirm the new address, and there was no news from them. Finally, I called to complain and got it on the last day of June, which lasted nearly two months!!!
user's experience
Snail Mobile 999 card free supports standard card, Micro SIM card Nano-Sim， No matter it's Xiaomi, Samsung or iPhone, you don't need to cut the card. You can restore it by putting it on. This is more considerate. I believe it will become the standard configuration of Sim card in the future.
Because 399 yuan has been prepaid (the 999 free card price has now risen to 699 yuan), there is no need for monthly rent, so you can rest easy next? too young too simple!
Behind the seemingly cost-effective package, there are pits everywhere!
In order to use No. 170, you must download Snail's "Free Store"（ Endure its daily game advertising push ）：
The slogan of the 999 free card of Snail Mobile is "free voice all over the country for half a year", behind which is Voice call is realized by means of "free voice package". You need to pick up the "free package" in the free store. Please pay attention! The "talk time" claimed each time is random: My personal receipt is from 5 minutes to 135 minutes! What's more, after receiving it once, it will take 120 minutes to receive it again!
Think about it, who has the energy to take out the mobile phone every two hours to get a voice packet. And the voice call time is limited! If it takes more than 500 minutes, you cannot continue to claim it. The so-called "six months of free national voice" was originally implemented in such a way!
There is no SMS package for free card, and I have never planned to use free card to send SMS, but one day I was cheap and didn't take another mobile phone to go out. I sent three SMS messages with free card, and then I received this message:
Your SMS has been overdrawn. If you fail to renew your SMS service package 3 months after the deadline, the system will shut down and cancel your mobile phone number.
So if you don't buy the snail's SMS package within 3 months, you will be cancelled!
There is nothing to say about this. You can get 500M traffic every month, and it will not be cleared within two years. The so-called "quasi 4G" traffic is actually the "H+" network of Unicom's WCDMA network, but it will still fall into "3G" when the signal is bad.
Other packages are as follows:
Although it doesn't look expensive, it's never cheap.
Please note that the 999 card free "Caller ID" is free for 6 months. In fact, the time does not include the caller ID, and of course it will not be forced to open. Anyway, if you want to buy it, it will cost 5 yuan/30 days! This is almost invisible monthly rent!
Finally
In addition to the above charges, the only advantage of free card is that the unused charges will not be cleared within 2 years (who knows what kind of pits will be dug for you after 2 years?).
Because I was the first user to place an order, I bought a 999 free card at the price of 399. Considering the demand for voice calls, the price of 399 was not too expensive even if it was only used for half a year.
However, the price has now risen to 699:
Willing to spend 399 yuan to buy a 170 card from a virtual operator, I believe that it is also a user with very high network activity. As a mobile game company, Snail Mobile's target users of "free card" are very similar to the positioning of the company's products.
The 399 free card for free flash sale launched later, which adopts the flash sale mode of "Hungry Marketing", is actually an opportunity for users.
The "free card" series is a trial for Snail Mobile to use section 170 to partially benefit users. The goal of section 170 is to make users stick to free stores.
Considering that the cards of the current virtual operators are not yet mature, many users should use them as the second card for backup. If you have a lot of voice calls and have the energy to skip the holes set by the virtual operators, you can try.
As an ordinary user, it is recommended to wait and see. After all, 4G has become popular in the second half of the year. I believe you won't miss it.
