Watch out for these types of services. Most times the service is crap unless IN the city and since they dont own their towers (how they get lower prices) they get 3g and low priority. So if you happen to connect to a verizon tower and theres a lot of use you'll get even worse service as verizon post paid (aka contract) get top service. If you talk to most mobile retailers they almost always have post paid big 3 (verizon, at&t, sprint) phones. It really comes down to how you'll use it. If you are connected to wifi 99% of the time you'll probably not notice but if you are even slightly in the country and need gps it might not work well.