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    Best place in Waikiki to purchase a prepaid sim card. I was assited with great service by their staff. I was only in town temporarily and needed a prepaid sim card so that I could contact my family back home. Hoku made my experience very easy and I will always recommend this place to people that will be traveling to Waikiki in the future. I also went to another place down the street from them but all they wanted was my money and did not care about my needs. So if your in Waikiki and in need of a prepaid sim the best place to go is Hoku Wireless!!

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    Marylou and Jessie are great customer service agents, thank you so much for the hospitality and i'll definitely be back soon thank you!

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    Great service, and great prices! Definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for a SIM card in Waikiki!

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    Friendly management. $40 SIM card for a month of international calling and a gig of data.

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    Hawaiian Telcom

    Hawaiian Telcom

    1.5
    (1.3k reviews)

    Just wanted to drop in and share what a wonderful experience I had making the switch over to…read moreHawaiian Telcom. Honestly, I'd been with the Spectrum for many years. But when my internet bill went up to $100 a month. I'd had enough. So I stopped by the Hawaii Telcom kiosk in Windward Mall. I met and was helped by Regina Espinoza (she gave me her card to share) . She shared about their program that is only $40/month for high speed internet, the process is locked in for 5 years, this process includes the router AND the first 2 months are free. She didn't have to tell me much more. I was sold at $40/month! She was able to set me up for install the following Wednesday, we decided on a time, afternoon. And we were set to go. On Wednesday afternoon, Robby our installer called to confirm the appointment and to let us know about what time he'd be at our home. Then he called again while he was on his way. My home is in a warehouse, so during the work day, parking can get a little tight. So I called him and told him that I'd make sure that he had a place to park. I had him park in my stall, while I ran some errands. I came home when I knew the parking lot would be clear. And Robbie was leaving to go up the road to make some kind of connection he needed for my install. He came back after a short while. He was very pleasant and courteous. He helped me download the app that I needed to complete the set up, walked me through the app set up and even helped me put my router up, off the floor, so my internet service wouldn't be so spotty. Last of all he asked if I was keeping Spectrum, I told him no way. And asked him if he'd help me take the Spectrum hardware off. He took all the PCs wrapped all the cords and put them on the floor in an easy place for me to get to. I can't express what an excellent level of excellence I received. I'm a very happy new customer and grateful to be "locked in for the next 5 years! " Big Mahalos to Regina and Robbie, for being wonderful examples of Hawaiian Tel com's excellent customer service!

    2026-07-05----Original Review: Shiesty company with gaps of…read moreinformation to cover shady sales tactics. If you want to hear a true-crime story, keep reading, if not, just skip to my synopsis in the last paragraph. A seemingly nice salesman walked around our neighborhood making all kinds of sales and speed claims and price claims, et cetera. He managed to wrangle my contact info out of my dear wife so that he could contact me and inform me of my options, and my very first call is an autodial saying that I'm signed up for a service installation at some date and time they decided to choose?!! Then, I start receiving spam emails about an upcoming service install. I call them up and the man on the line with a thick accent is asking me what the name on my account is and I'm trying to explain that I never even spoke with the sales person, much less agreed to any service, much less, created an account with them. I offer my name and nope! That's not it. We finally figure out that they snaked my wife's name and they've now made up an account with her name on it and now they want me to have her authorize me to speak on her behalf?!! So basically we're now in identity theft territory. I patiently but firmly ask to make a formal complaint against this salesman who conned my wife. But surprise, surprise, the system somehow does not list the name of the salesman. (But I guarantee the company would know who to credit with the "sale" if it somehow went through, otherwise, Mr. Salesman would not be visiting houses if he isn't getting paid.) I am told that they will look into it and "if they can figure it out", they will get back to me. After pressing the agent on the phone, he admits that they actually don't really have that info available to them in their system (so obviously, they would have never called me back). Synopsis: This company is basically a black hole of starless (pun fully intended) darkness: lying and identity-thieving salespeople, zero transparency on who sold or setup our "account". It's institutionalized theft. Run, do not walk from them and for the love of Pete, do NOT give anyone who represents them or claims to represent them your contact info- Take a card (if you MUST) and tell them, that WE will call YOU (if/when we lose our minds, forget completely about this Yelp review (and the thousand like it), and are looking to begin a long term, abusive relationship, against our favor). 2026-07-06----Response to Maria (or is it Jode?) from HawaiianTelcom. I don't have time to further detail anything that hasn't already been said. If, however, you can provide proof that your sales people have been retrained to NOT sign people up for service they never agreed to, AND show proof that Hawaiian Telcom has updated their systems to have some transparency by simply allowing their own "help" department visibility into who made the sale, then I will consider revisiting my review. But until then, this is my honest experience and a warning to my friends and neighbors to not give your info to these folks. The lack of accountability seems institutionalized and if so, it would indicate that the apple is rotten to the core.

    Vision Mobile Hawaii

    Vision Mobile Hawaii

    4.6
    (18 reviews)
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    Very sad that they closed....they provide such great and convenient service!…read more I rented portable Wifi a couple of times, and it is really convenient to just pick it up before my trip, then after I return, to drop it off... No need to fret about wondering, "gee, I hope my wifi unit was delivered okay to the first hotel I'm staying at and it is waiting for me..." Also it is nice to have wifi when catching transportation from the airport to the 1st hotel, to see where the driver (or train) is going, and if it going in the right direction!!! Dang...hope another company decides to offer this service in Waikiki in the future...

    A must when traveling to Japan. Vision Mobile offers affordable pocket wifi rentals which make it…read moreeasy in Japan. I prefer to get my pocket wifi before leaving for my trip so I dont have to worry about it once landing. I usually book online and get a phone confirmation. Pick up is a day before your trip at their Waikiki location. The only hard part is their pick up location, but if you bring a friend with you to wait in the car, it should be fine - or you could grab a bite in the Waikiki shopping plaza since you're already driving there! The wifi itself is easy to use. They explain to you when you pick up, but its all pretty self explanatory. The battery lasted pretty much the whole day if fully charged and is small enough to carry around with you all day without adding extra weight. You can return the wifi when you get back to Hawaii on the departures floor after getting your luggage. Would highly recommend booking for your next Japan trip!

    Verizon

    Verizon

    2.9
    (214 reviews)
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    It looks as though they're busy and/or short staffed because there's not much movement in here…read moretoday and according to the app they sent me to check my place in line I am still in 9th place, which I was later told isn't the same as what they see on their end. I've had issues with my iPhone 17 so I want them to troubleshoot for me. Service at this location has varied from year to year. The last time I was here they had lots of young men doing nothing and not being helpful at all. The folks working here now seem more professional, which I will discover shortly once I get looked after. Fingers crossed. Brandon helped me figure out what was going on with my phone & why it was draining so fast, so I left with a happy phone.

    This is not good. I'm waiting here at the store for the second day!…read more Yesterday, it took over 4 1/2 hours to buy a new iPhone and to transfer my data from my old iPhone to the new iPhone. It doesn't end there. The data transfer did not transfer my events and medical appointments on my calendar. It also changed my calendar on my old iPhone so I couldn't retrieve the information and manually transfer it to the new iPhone. Hence, my second visit here. I made an appointment via the chat website for 11 am. I arrived a little early and checked in with Daryl (sp?). He couldn't seem to help me and then John, the manager appeared from the back door and I called him over for assistance. John assisted me the day before. John was helping another customer so I held back and waited for a bit. I informed him of the data transfer concerns. This was @11:19 am. He took a look at my phones (old and new) and he did a few things to both phones. Idk what he did to the phones. He left me @11:23 am to check on the other customer, who had been patiently waiting as well. Now it's @12:25 pm and I haven't seen John yet! I'm a pretty patient person, but it's cold in here and there is no restroom here for customers. One hour wait???? Geez Verizon. What's going on? There are other employees, however, John was the one assisting me yesterday, together with Leland. Leland wasn't in the store during my second visit. It's @12:45 pm and I finally get some time with John. I'm cold and tired. Don't get me wrong, Manager John appears nice and friendly. He just can't figure out what went wrong. The long and the short of this visit, was nothing could be done to resolve the glitch in Verizon's data transfer of my old iPhone to the new iPhone. I finally left this store at @1:06 pm. No resolution to the calendar data loss. Sorry if I miss any dates with anyone lol, including Yelp! There were also unknown charges on my bill that are still unanswered as it's difficult to have consistent service here. John attempted to explain the billing issues on the receipt saying that the next billing will reflect the correct amounts?! Not very comforting to hear that. Always ask for an itemized bill! You'll need it to check your next statement against what was "promised " here. Side note: The first day I had three different employees switch out on me. Each one kept going behind the back door for lengthy amount of times, only to have its customers wait for their magical reappearance. The customer sitting next to me even quipped that he wonders what they do back there lol. I asked an employee what was back there and I was told it's a break room. John said it also is a place to do research and more? The second day, same thing happened. I kept seeing employees go through this door for lengthy time periods. I can't really recommend this location for service unless you really have a whole lot of time to wait. Maybe, it's time to switch plans Verizon?!

    Servpac

    Servpac

    3.5
    (15 reviews)

    If I could rate this company with zero I would. DO NOT ENGAGE with this company. Run away. They…read moretalk a good story but implementation and service is the worst I have experienced in 30 years in business. The call the center is in the Philippines. When you need local help you need to go through layers of "so-called" offsite help. When you need a tech to be onsite especially when doing the cutover. They told us you can do it yourselves. That didn't work and now they are sending a tech over since our phone service still doesn't work when we asked several times for a tech to be onsite. It has taken us over a month from porting to still not having phone service. Their solution is that you have to buy more services which then takes LONGER to implement. I get companies are enamored with saving money with outsourcing, but at the end you end up losing clients with the crappy service. Wake up ServPac. We are trying to help local companies, but you need to step it up!

    Be careful before you make a contract with this company. In the terms of agreement it looks like a…read more3 year deal. It's actually written in big letters, but it says 5 years in a smaller letter font in the order sheet. After 4 years in their contract, we had to cut costs during this hard pandemic situation and we are down sizing and wanted to terminate the contract. But they are still asking an early termination fee over $1800. No other communication company recently is asking for a 5 year contract. It's sad... In addition, they raised the monthly fee from $136.07 on the contract to $146.31 without any notice. It is automatic pay from my checking account, so nothing I can do.

    Boss Communication Technologies

    Boss Communication Technologies

    5.0
    (2 reviews)

    Our company upgraded its wireless network at 2 of its retail stores on O'ahu, which required…read moremounting new Wireless Access Points at new locations throughout the building. Boss Commtech was contracted to run all of the cabling and physical mounting of the WAPs and a new patch panel. Configuring the network was left to our in-house IT department. The installation crew arrived on-time and completed the job within the timeframe allotted. Our stores remained open during the job, and the installation crew was careful to protect the workspace and always mindful of our employees and customers in the vicinity. When the job was done, there were no invoice surprises, and complete documentation of the network test results was provided.

    Electric Car Charging Station Review…read more I've owned my EV for over 2 years and was tired of trying to find available charging stations. I called Nissan for a referral of who to can install and EV charging station at home and Boss Taylor at Boss was their only recommendation. Taylor is super personable, professional and patient. I live in a condo building and it took over 6 months of drafts and following up to get the install approved as I am the first to get an EV charger installed in my building. My building had many different questions and requests and Taylor answered all of them. Taylor did not give up and me and I am so happy to have my charger installed. Taylor is the only person you should call if you need an EV charger installed.

    Aloha Phone Repair by TCA Wireless - Honolulu

    Aloha Phone Repair by TCA Wireless - Honolulu

    4.7
    (814 reviews)
    $$

    The battery in my phone was almost dead. I called them, and was able to set up a "same day". I…read morewalked into the shop and there was a lot of people. Leading me to assume that I was going to be without my phone for a day. The counter girl asked for my email and said it would be about 30 minutes. The kid doing the work confirmed that yes, it would take about 30 minutes. So i handed my phone over and did some shopping. I came back about 30 minutes later, and sure enough. The repair was complete. While i was waiting in line to pick up my phone. The Tech kid was explaining to customer when its a good time to replace the battery, and when to get rid of the phone. Found their conversation enlightening. I paid the $80, with a thank you, and out into the world i went. The only knock I would give them is the credit card "surcharge". Which I was told about at the very beginning. So if you go there to get your phone repaired. BRING CASH... I will definitely be a repeat customer.

    I brought my iPad to the Don Quijote location on the same day I inquired about screen repair. I…read morespoke to Joy which was helpful in letting me know the estimated price as well as what locations are available for same day repair. I arrived to the location at around 12:30pm (time stamp in image.) I spoke to two employees. I talked to one employee that took a look at my iPad and confirmed the price and time to pick up (2 hours). I also confirmed again with the guy who managed the payment that it would take two hours. I show up around 4:45pm and no one greets me walking in. So I walk up (five minutes later) to the first employee and asked if the tablet is ready. She told me, "Oh you're early, I just have to put on the screen." It had been 2+ hours since I dropped off so I was confused but I said I will wait till they are done. I came back around 50 minutes later and the repair is not done yet. At this point it is already 5:45pm and it has not been finished. I wait until 6:18pm and she hands me it without apologizing for the wait or anything. I regret not saying anything about the time issue but it feels conflicting because of all the things I signed and I am not sure if I am in right to. The problem is not how long it takes, but it was the misinformation about when pick up would be. I confirmed with two people that it would be ready in two hours. It came out to almost 6 hours. I would not have minded dropping it off and coming back another time, if they had communicated that. But I was told it was 2 hours so I waited there, standing in the store and not wanting to rush the employees. The repair itself is excellent but the customer service was conflicting. I paid $329.84 and expected quality care. I do wish I had a better experience because it seems others do.

    Hoku Wireless - mobilephones - Updated August 2026

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