You’ll still need to pay the base $20-per-month for Project Fi service, regardless of how many devices you connect to your account.
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It’s possible that other tablets (or even phones) will work with the data-only FI SIM, Google seems to believe that anything that’s unlocked and works with T-Mobile’s bands should work.
Google’s invite-only Project Fi MVNO experiment is still small, but today Google is expanding it beyond phones for a small subset of devices. Only owners of Nexus 5X, 6, and 6P devices can test drive what it’s like to have Google as a carrier, for good or bad.
You can add up to nine data-only devices – be it a tablet, smartphone, or something else – to your existing Project Fi voice plan this way, and Google has provided an initial list of hardware that it deems compatible. That means that you’ll be charged $10 per gigabyte and you’ll only pay for what you actually use.
The data-only SIM, which is free for current Project Fi subscribers, gives tablets and similar devices mobile broadband access while on the go.
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But where Google really continues to circumvent traditional carriers is that it won’t be charging a monthly ” device fee” for connecting a tablet to your account. Now though, a new support page has gone live and details that tablets will soon be able to make use of a Project Fi connection as well. The catch is that that only includes data devices. You can read the official announcement on the Fi forums here, in which it’s stated that the option to order data-only SIMs should be rolling out to all Fi subscribers over the next couple of days. Google notes that other tablets not listed here may also work.
