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goTenna – Turn your Smartphone into a Radio Wave Network
Startup goTenna is accepting pre sales of their new device that is intended to bridge the gap between cell and satellite phones. The device is a 2 ounce wand that communicates with your smartphone via bluetooth to transmit via low frequency radio waves to other users of the device. The range can be a mile in […]
Verizon offering Prepaid LTE Data Service
Starting tomorrow, Verizon is making the move to including LTE data service for their prepaid AllSet plans direct with them. Previously, all prepaid plans, both with them and via other MVNOs, were limited to 3G service only. The linked article below talks about the new phone plans which include talk, text and limited buckets of […]
T-Mobile Reveals What AT&T Charges Wholesale For Roaming Data
T-Mobile has filed with the FCC asking that it clarify what “commercially reasonable” means in regards to roaming agreements between carriers, and that the FCC then force AT&T and Verizon to fairly negotiate new more “reasonable” lower rates with the smaller carriers who are dependent on roaming. T-Mobiles objects to the big carriers charging wholesale […]
Sprint’s LivePro Hotspot & Video Projector – Uhm. Yeah.
How many times have you been using your mobile hotspot to get your gadgets online, when you found yourself wishing that the hotspot could help entertain you during long downloads by projecting a movie onto the nearest wall? At last – your dreams are answered by Sprint’s new all-in-one LivePro. The LivePro combines a hotspot, […]
Got Karma? — Buy data that does not expire!
Karma is perhaps the most unique MVNO out there. Their only product is $99 personal hotspot, and you can then buy data (which never expires) for $14/1GB, or $99/10GB – with no contracts, monthly fees, or fine print. The Karma hotspot is designed to be shared – and if it is turned on, it is […]
AT&T Sponsored Data: Freely Surf Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and more…
AT&T has been making moves to allow for “sponsored data” on their wireless network – usage that does not count against your monthly data caps. Finding ways to take advantage of this is about to get a lot easier… A company called Syntonic Wireless is rolling out an iOS and Android app that will act […]
The End of WiMAX is Near
Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network has been clearly a technological dead end for a while. But in researching ‘The Mobile Internet Handbook’, I was able to dig up when that dead end turns into a brick wall. Sprint is currently planning to shut down it’s WiMAX network entirely by the end of 2015, freeing up spectrum […]
Widespread Verizon Billing System Outage
It seems that it isn’t just Millenicom having sudden issues with Verizon’s accounting systems (see the thread earlier this week about people getting inaccurate “you’ve used over 20GB!” warning letters). Now there are reports that problems are widespread in much of Verizon’s network — with some users unable change their plans or even activate new […]
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