How Your Cell Plan Keeps You Addicted and Broke. Andrew Yang Wants to Fix It.

Tired of paying luxury prices for doomscrolling into despair and overall digital misery? Andrew Yang’s new company wants to change that. Plus, what it's like running for President...for real.

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In this episode of Techishly Jenn, I sit down with Andrew Yang — yes, that Andrew Yang — the former presidential candidate who’s now running a brand-new wireless carrier called Noble Mobile.

I’ve always liked Andrew because he actually makes sense — a rare trait in politics or tech. He’s not red or blue, he’s refreshingly… human.

First, he wanted to give everyone a thousand bucks a month. Now? He wants to help us save money, use our phones less, and stop being “the product” in this data-harvesting circus we call the internet.

Here’s the pitch: Noble Mobile offers a flat-rate plan — about $50 a month — for unlimited talk, text, and 5G data on T-Mobile’s network. Then, Noble actually pays you back when you use less when you use less than 20GB a month (the average person only uses about 15GM/month). Yang wants it to be a phone plan that actually rewards self-control, kind of like a financial Fitbit for your screen time.

Beyond saving you a few bucks, Yang also says it’s about “financial and mental health.” Translation: no hidden fees, no data-selling nonsense, and yes — you can even earn cash back for lighter data use. Those unused savings? They can grow at about 5.5% annually. It’s like your phone bill just got a savings account and a conscience.

Is this refreshingly human… or just really good marketing?

What starts as “new phone plan, who dis?” quickly turns into a bigger conversation about money, mental health, attention, trust, and how tech could reflect our values instead of hijacking them.

We also go behind the curtain on his political journey and power, why he wasn’t impressed with the presidents he’s met, and his 10-year tech prediction.

It’s a refreshingly honest conversation with someone who doesn’t mince words.

P.S. I joined Noble Mobile and will follow up with a full review.

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What did we miss that we should have asked Andrew? If a carrier paid you to scroll less — would you switch? What would it take?

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