A phone plan from people who already make things you use.
Lettuce Mobile is the wireless line inside the Lettuce ecosystem — the same account you use for Radio, News, Email, Wine and the rest. We’re building it because the phone bill is the one subscription everyone has and nobody likes.
How a carrier with no towers works
The big three own the radio spectrum and the towers. They also sell capacity on those networks to smaller carriers — that’s called being an MVNO, a mobile virtual network operator. Mint, Visible, Cricket and dozens of others work exactly this way. The signal is the host network’s; the plan, the price, the app and the support are ours.
The savings come from what we don’t do: no retail stores, no commissioned reps, no device subsidies buried in a two-year contract, no paper bills. You prepay for 3, 6 or 12 months, which lets us buy capacity in bulk and keep the monthly number flat.
What we’ll do differently
- Your Lettuce services come with the line. Other carriers bundle someone else’s streaming service. We own ours, so Radio, News and Email are included at no extra cost — and Radio streaming won’t count against your data.
- One account, one wallet. Your phone line sits beside every other Lettuce product in Lettuce Space. One login, one payment method, one place to manage it all.
- New phones only, always unlocked. We don’t sell refurbished devices, and we don’t lock what we sell. The phone is yours from the first day.
- Plans pre-installed. Because we’re the carrier and the store, a phone bought from us ships with your eSIM already provisioned.
- Plain-language prices. The rate you see is the rate you pay, plus the taxes and regulatory fees every carrier is required to collect — itemized, never hidden in the headline.
What “in development” means
We haven’t signed a network agreement, which means we can’t sell service, activate lines or take payment yet. Everything on this site — plan names, prices, data allotments, device availability — is a target we’re building toward and will change. The waitlist is a list of people to email once, when sign-ups open. It is not a pre-order.
Where we are
- Network partner: in negotiation.
- Regulatory: FCC registration and state filings underway before launch.
- Billing: built on the same Stripe stack as every other Lettuce product.
- Device supply: distributor relationships for new, unlocked inventory.