Dear Savvy Senior: A few months ago I read a column you wrote on extremely cheap smartphone plans for budget-conscious seniors. Can you do a similar column for those of us who still use basic flip phones? My old 3G flip phone is about to become obsolete, so I’m looking for the cheapest possible replacement. I only need a simple cellphone (no data) for emergency calls when I’m away from home. — Penny Pincher
Dear Penny: For seniors who want a simple, basic cellphone for emergency purposes and occasional calls, there are a number of super-cheap plans available from small wireless providers you may have never heard of. Here are some of the best deals available right now.
Inexpensive plans
For extremely light cellphone users, the cheapest wireless plan available is through US Mobile (USMobile.com), which has a “build your own plan” that starts at only $2 per month for 75 minutes of talk time. If you want text messaging capabilities, an extra $1.50 will buy you 50 texts a month.
US Mobile runs on Verizon’s and T-Mobile’s networks and gives you the option to bring your existing phone (if compatible or unlocked) or purchase a new device while keeping your same phone number, if you wish.
If your flip phone is becoming obsolete, as you mentioned in your question, you’ll need to buy a new device. US Mobile offers new customers the “NUU F4L” flip phone for $39, or you can purchase an unlocked phone through retail stores such as Walmart or Best Buy, or online. One of the best values in flip phones right now is the (unlocked) “Alcatel GO FLIP 4044 4G LTE,” available at Amazon.com for $80.
Other deals in wireless plans are Ultra Mobile’s “PayGo” plan (UltraMobile.com/PayGo), which provides 100 talk minutes and 100 texts for only $3 per month; and Tello’s (Tello.com) “build your own plan” that starts at $5 per month for 100 talk minutes and unlimited texting.
Both Ultra Mobile PayGo and Tello also run on T-Mobile’s network and will let you use your existing phone (if compatible or unlocked) or buy a new one.
Targeted providers
In addition to these super-cheap plans, there are several other wireless companies that cater to older customers and offer low-cost basic plans and simple flip phones. One of the least expensive is TracFone (Tracfone.com), which offers a 60-minute talk, text and web plan for $20 that lasts for 90 days. That averages out to $6.66 per month.
Three other providers that are popular among seniors are Snapfon (Snapfon .com), which offers a monthly plan with 100 minutes and unlimited texting for $10. Consumer Cellular (ConsumerCellular.com) provides an unlimited talk plan for $15 per month as well as 5% discounts to AARP members. And Lively (Lively.com), maker of the popular Jitterbug Flip2 senior-friendly flip phone, offers 300 minutes of talk for $15 (plus 10 cents per text).
Subsidized plans
The federal Lifeline program, which offers free or subsidized wireless plans, is available to some on a government program such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income or food stamps/SNAP; and to some whose annual household income is at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines — $21,101 for one person or $28,431 for two.
Find out whether you qualify for the Lifeline program or apply at LifelineSupport.org.
Jim Miller is a contributor to NBC-TV’s “Today” program and author of “The Savvy Senior.” Send your questions to Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070; or visit savvysenior.org.
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New Jersey, N.J., July 21, 2022 The Submarine Optical Fiber Cables Market research report provides all the information related to the industry. It gives the outlook of the market by giving authentic data to its client which helps to make essential decisions. It gives an overview of the market which includes its definition, applications and developments, and manufacturing technology. This Submarine Optical Fiber Cables market research report tracks all the recent developments and innovations in the market. It gives the data regarding the obstacles while establishing the business and guides to overcome the upcoming challenges and obstacles.
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New Jersey, N.J., July 21, 2022 The Ethernet Access Device Market research report provides all the information related to the industry. It gives the outlook of the market by giving authentic data to its client which helps to make essential decisions. It gives an overview of the market which includes its definition, applications and developments, and manufacturing technology. This Ethernet Access Device market research report tracks all the recent developments and innovations in the market. It gives the data regarding the obstacles while establishing the business and guides to overcome the upcoming challenges and obstacles.
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A few months ago, I read a column you wrote on extremely cheap smartphone plans for budget-conscious seniors. Can you do a similar column for those of us who still use basic flip phones? My old 3G flip phone is about to become obsolete, so I’m looking for the cheapest possible replacement. I only need a simple cell phone (no data) for emergency calls when I’m away from home.
Penny Pincher
Dear Penny,
For many seniors, like yourself, who only want a simple basic cell phone for emergency purposes and occasional calls, there are a number of super cheap plans available from small wireless providers you may have never heard of. Here are some of the best deals available right now.
Cheapest basic plans
For extremely light cell phone users, the cheapest wireless plan available is through US Mobile (USMobile.com), which has a “build your own plan” that starts at only $2 per month for 75 minutes of talk time. If you want text messaging capabilities, an extra $1.50/month will buy you 50 texts per month.
US Mobile runs on Verizon’s and T-Mobile’s networks and gives you the option to bring your existing phone (if compatible or unlocked) or purchase a new device, while keeping your same phone number if you wish.
If your flip phone is becoming obsolete, as you mentioned in your question, you’ll need to buy a new device, which you can do through US Mobile if you choose their plan. They offer the “NUU F4L” flip phone for $39 for new customers. Or you can purchase an unlocked phone through retail stores like Walmart or Best Buy, or online. One of the best value flip phones right now is the (unlocked) “Alcatel GO FLIP 4044 4G LTE,” available at Amazon.com for $80.
Some other super cheap wireless plans worth a look are Ultra Mobile’s “PayGo” plan (UltraMobile.com/PayGo), which provides 100 talk minutes, 100 texts for only $3 per month. And Tello’s (Tello.com) “build your own plan” that starts at $5 per month for 100 talk minutes and unlimited texting.
Both Ultra Mobile PayGo and Tello also run on T-Mobile’s network and will let you use your existing phone (if compatible or unlocked) or buy a new one.
Senior targeted providers
In addition to these super cheap plans, there are several other wireless companies that cater to older customers and offer low-cost basic plans and simple flip phones. One of the least expensive is through TracFone (Tracfone.com), which offers a 60-minute talk, text and web plan for $20 that lasts for 90 days. That averages out to $6.66 per month.
Three other providers that are popular among seniors are Snapfon (Snapfon.com), which offers a 100 minutes and unlimited texting plan for $10. Consumer Cellular (ConsumerCellular.com), which provides an unlimited talk plan or $15 per month. They also give 5% discounts to AARP members. And Lively (Lively.com), maker of the popular Jitterbug Flip2 senior-friendly flip phone. Their cheapest monthly plan is 300 minutes of talk and text for $15.
Subsidized plans
You also need to know that if you’re on a government program such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income or food stamps/SNAP. Or, if your annual household income is at or below 135% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines – $18,347 for one person, or $24,719 for two – you might also qualify for free or subsidized wireless plans from various carriers via the federal Lifeline program. To find out if you’re eligibility or apply, visit LifelineSupport.org.
Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) announced the coming availability of its Arm-based instance, the Tau T2A, last week (currently available in preview) to address the ever-expanding needs of customers developing and deploying scale-out, cloud-native workloads. What does this announcement mean for enterprise IT? Does landing this final major cloud player fully validate Arm in the enterprise? And what motivated Google to jump on the Arm bandwagon? We'll address this a little more in the following paragraphs.
What was announced
The T2A virtual machine (VM) is part of the GCP Tau scale-out instance family. Tau is targeted at those cloud-native applications that run containerized or in VMs that don't require extreme compute resources. The Tau family was deployed initially with AMD EPYC (T2D) with fixed configurations to offer this instance type optimized for cost and scale-out performance.
The Tau T2A VM is based on Ampere Computing’s Altra CPU. It’s important to note that Azure announced Ampere and instances are GA at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as well as several Chinese clouds (including TikTok parent, ByteDance).
Google Tau T2A VM value proposition
GoogleTo motivate developers and customers, GCP offers a free 8-core, 32G RAM instance of T2A through general availability.
How Google is positioning T2A
One of the things I find with Arm announcements is that sometimes the "why would I use this?' question isn't fully answered. It's almost as if an assumption is made that enterprise IT professionals would fully understand the price-performance benefits of Arm and workload affinity.
Through the briefings Moor Insights & Strategy Patrick Moorhead and I received, as well as the various public statements from Google, it is refreshing to see the company is helping guide its customers. As mentioned, T2A is a VM targeting those scale-out workloads that don't require maximum compute resources at the individual instance level. Unsurprisingly, one of the supporting blogs from Google discusses optimizations for the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google's container environment.
A valuable capability of GKE is its multi-architecture support. So, containerized workloads can run in an x86 and Arm environment simultaneously. While this has many practical benefits, it also makes it easier for IT organizations to dip their collective toes in the “Arm” water, so to speak. It is capabilities such as this (not unique to GCP) that allow for organizations to deploy on Arm seamlessly.
It should be noted that T2A also runs the Google Container-optimized OS. So, organizations utilizing the popular Docker containers can expect full support.
Google has also enabled its Batch and Dataflow cloud services to run on T2A. These two services that target batch processing and streaming analytics respectively benefit from the Tau family's scale-out nature and T2A in particular.
While Google provides good guidance for its customers considering exploring or deploying on Arm, the use of T2A can be far broader. Independent of Google, Ampere has developed a robust ecosystem of partners, spanning the operating system to the workload. Functions like serverless caching via Momento, SLURM workload scheduling via SchedMD, and HPC through Rescale – are all optimized workloads for Ampere. And there are many more.
A few more details on T2A
Google is careful in how it positions its VM instances. When the company released its Tau VM family last year, it was very clear in positioning these as cost-effective, scale-out VMs. As one would expect with “cost-effective,” some options customers may prefer are lacking, such as local SSD support and higher bandwidth networking (32G supported in T2A v. 100G in other instances). Further, once a customer is locked into a T2A VM size (vCPU and RAM), they cannot dynamically add more resources.
Tau T2A VM configurations
GoogleGiven the workloads targeted, the above makes sense, as customers look to distribute applications across many "good enough" performing VMs that don’t require maximum network throughput.
I like that GCP drives all of its specialized value into the Tau family, including T2A. The security measures, optimizations around memory (NUMA), network optimizations, etc.. that GCP has developed are all lit up in T2A. This level of support should assures customers utilizing T2A that these instances enjoy the same level of support as the highest performing compute engines.
Has Arm arrived in the enterprise?
The quick and simple answer is yes, though not for every workload. GCP announcing Arm-based instances rounds out support from all the major CSPs. This widespread support hasn't happened because Arm is cool or trendy. Nor has it happened as an exercise to drive better pricing from the x86 players. Arm is being deployed because CSPs can deliver equal or better performance for specific workloads at a lower cost and power envelope. Period. This is basic economics.
While Arm is not going to replace x86 to run virtualized infrastructure on VMware anytime soon, there are still use cases where Arm is a good fit. In its blog promoting T2A, one of GCP's reference customers is Harvard University. The school runs several compute-intensive workloads on SLURM VirtualFlow, and T2A allows it to run tens of thousands of VMs in parallel, reducing compute time significantly. But here’s the key to what Harvard had to say – the migration to T2A was done with minimal effort. Such is the beauty of cloud-native development. The cost and time savings will be immediately recognized.
I like this Harvard reference because it reminds us that Arm is not just for the digitally born companies that have never had an on-premises datacenter. It's for any company embarking on a digital transformation or modernization project.
Further proof of Arm's move into the datacenter can be seen in HPE's announcement of the upcoming ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server based on Ampere's Altra CPU. This is the first mainstream server that HPE has announced ahead of its Gen11 launch, and I expect the market will see competitors roll out its servers in time.
Is T2A just a competitive response from Google?
I don’t believe that Google is interested in investing in and rolling out an Arm-based instance to be like every other cloud provider. GCP is run by many intelligent people who firmly understand its customers' wants and needs.
As a company, Google has deep roots in silicon design, development, and optimizations. It's no secret that the company works with CPU vendors to deliver Google compute-optimized platforms. I think GCP has done its due diligence in ensuring the Ampere CPU could and would meet its particular and the needs of its customers.
I believe my only question is around the longer-term strategy for Google and Arm. There are two camps in the CSP space: those that design its silicon (i.e., AWS Graviton) and those that deploy Ampere. Given Google's history in silicon development, could we see a custom chip in the future? It is a scenario that is entirely plausible.
Final thoughts
Google rounds out support for Arm from the major CSPs with its Tau T2A VM offering, based on Ampere Computing’s Altra CPU. While the company is last to market in this regard, it has done a thorough job of positioning Arm relative to x86 and target workloads.
I believe this is just the beginning for Arm at GCP and suspect the company will eventually roll Arm offerings into other compute engine offerings over time. But I think it will do this in a very measured way, looking for areas where Arm can offer a differentiated experience for customers.
It's a good time to be a proponent of Arm. And a better day to be an investor of Ampere Computing. There is no doubt that Arm is here to stay. Not as a cheap alternative to x86, but as an architecture that can be optimized for many workloads, with the ability to lead in raw performance, price-performance, and performance-per-watt, at a time when each of these measures are so critical.
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Hey, it’s a double-advergame, plugging both Monty Python’s Spamalot (the musical) and Spam with Stinky French Garlic (the marginal foodstuff). It’s another catapult game, but I’ll give them a pass on this one, because Monty Python was into catapults before catapults were hip. Plus, you get to throw cows at the enemies, who include the […]
