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Drone Warfare: Facebook to Battle SpaceX and Google With Laser Internet Drones
SpaceX isn’t the only company with crazily ambitious plans to bring the Internet to the remote corners of the globe. Facebook announced yesterday that it has completed the first test flight of a high-altitude laser-equipped Internet drone. Yes, really. Facebook has drones. With lasers. Mark Zuckerberg posted on his Wall yesterday: As part of our Internet.org […]
Verizon Rewards Participants Can Now “Earn” Free Data – With A Catch
For a few extra gigabytes of data – would you agree to allow your cellular company to track every website you visit, web search you conduct, application you use, and even the physical locations you travel to? And to then use this information to allow marketing partners to target you for postal, email, text message, Internet, […]
T-Mobile Brings Back (Un)Contracts, Goes After Business
This morning T-Mobile hosted their 9th #uncarrier event – and while it wasn’t as exciting for consumers as the past few announcements – rollover data in December, WiFi calling in September, or free music streaming last June – today’s news still has plenty of potential to shake up the mobile industry. The primary focus of the Un-Carrier 9.0 announcements today was “Un-Carrier […]
WiFiRanger Elite – Flat Mounted Version Released
WiFiRanger today debuted a new “flat mount” variation of the roof-mounted WiFiRanger Elite long-range WiFi capture device, addressing one of the biggest concerns we noted when the Elite debuted – it is too tall to mount safely on an RV roof without a way to retract it! For RVers with retractable TV antennas, the Elite was […]
Escapade Internet: Pepwave MAX BR1 Tested Under Pressure (Review Preview)
We just wrapped up an awesome and exhausting week attending and presenting at the Escapees Escapade rally in Tucson, AZ. Over 900 rigs were in attendance at the Pima County Fairgrounds, and the daily population was easily well over 2,000 people. And all of them, it seemed, wanted to get online. The fairgrounds was supposed to […]
AT&T Launches Modio LTE Case for iPad Mini
Do you wish you had bought a cellular-enabled iPad, and not just a basic WiFi-only model? There’s now an app (and case) for that – the new AT&T Modio LTE case for iPad Mini, which AT&T today announced will be going on sale on March 20th. But is it actually a worthwhile upgrade? Or is it perhaps […]
Understanding “Network Neutrality” – Implications For Mobile Internet
Today the FCC voted to classify broadband internet (including mobile internet) as a telecommunication service, with internet now regulated the same way that voice networks have been – with providers classified as “common carriers” under Title II of the 1934 Telecommunications Act. The new rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking or throttling of any lawful […]
Major Upgrade to Pepwave Max BR1 Cellular Router / Minor Upgrade to Pepwave Surf SOHO
During a Mobile Internet Advising call yesterday, I was asked for thoughts on using a Pepwave MAX BR1 “Industrial Grade 4G LTE Router” serving as the heart of an RV’s networking setup. We’ve had the MAX BR1 on our radar for a while as a potential high-end option. The BR1 is a tiny box with a […]
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