The best part about the flexible $10/GB model from Project Fi? It works just about everywhere. This capability was very handy for me at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas when the Wi-Fi at the keynote events was unreliable but I could use my phone for fast and reliable LTE connection for my laptop. Project Fi also provides the ability to turn a smartphone into a mobile hotspot that can be tethered to other devices. For public Wi-Fi, Project Fi has an intelligent assistant to connect people and protect them with a built-in VPN. Google actively pushes Project Fi users to Wi-Fi when it is available. On the flip side, if I used 3.53 GB of data, I would pay an extra $5.30 on my next bill. So Google credited my account $17.07 for unused data and my monthly bill was only $60.73. But I only used 1.293 GB of data (I was mostly at home on Wi-Fi during the month). For instance, I paid for 3 GB of data in my January/February billing cycle. Project Fi calculates how much data you use that month and then rolls over the difference from your pre-payment to the next month. Instead of paying $10 per GB, I am paying $1 for every 0.1 GB of data. The ingenuity of Project Fi is that you pay for exactly what you use. So my baseline cellular bill for the month is going to be $50 before applicable taxes and device payments. So, if I think I am going to use 3 GB of data, I am going to pay Google $30 for the data. At the beginning of the month you estimate how many GB of data you are going to use and pre-pay that amount. You then pay $10 for every gigabyte of cellular data you use from there on out. For $20 a month Project Fi provides unlimited domestic calls and texts (domestic and international). Project Fi has you covered here.” How Project Fi Works When I got off the plane in Dublin on my way to Barcelona to attend Mobile World Congress, Project Fi had a message for me: “Welcome to Ireland. Google operates as an MVNO-mobile virtual network operator-and leases spectrum from the likes of T-Mobile and Sprint to provide one of the most unique and flexible cell services in the world. I have been using Project Fi on a Nexus 6P from Google since mid-December. cellular carriers have been prohibitive for years … and you never quite know what your phone is downloading in the background.īut I don’t have a normal cellular carrier. Normally, you wouldn’t dare getting off a plane in a foreign country and flipping on your cellular data. I spent two weeks touring southern Europe testing Google’s Project Fi.