Not really. I’m on Visible Wireless prepay and pay $25/month for unlimited data, including unlimited hotspot (rate limited at 5 mb/s on the hotspot).

If it’s a post-pay plan, then it might be competitive, as the rates are around what you remember for those. Since they’re talking about a $500 phone instead of “free with plan,” I’m assuming it’s prepaid where you have to buy the phone separately.

Edit: okay, read the article and it’s prepaid. It’s not a good value and is easily beat my several existing services.

Or use it as a product search engine, then go to the supplier or an alternate online store to buy the one you want. I don’t have it on my phone but do go to it in browser occasionally for that.

He has a very low bar by most of the developed world’s standards, but he refused to lower it further for maga, so he’s history now.