Google Launches Its Own Wireless Service, Project Fi

@grg / 10:44 am PDT • April 22, 2015

As rumored for months, Google has just announced plans to offer its own wireless cellular service.

Here’s what we know so far:

It’s called “Project Fi”
It’s for Nexus 6 owners only, at first.
It’s invite only right now. You can sign up for an invite here.
It’s built on top of Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks
No contracts
Subscribers pay $20 for unlimited talk/text, and then pay $10 per gig of data. So a 3GB plan would be $30 on top of that $20, coming out to a total of $50.
You only pay for what you use, but in sort of a strange way: if you pay for 3GB of data per month ($30) but only use 1.5GB, you’ll get $15 back at the end of the month.
It’s all tied into Google Hangouts, which will allow you to place calls from your number on any Hangouts-enabled tablet or laptop in addition to your phone.
WiFi Tethering is included.
This is what their US Coverage map currently looks like (Montana gets basically no love):