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AT&T Unlimited Premium Replaces Unlimited Elite for Consumers: Now With 50GB Mobile Hotspot Data
AT&T has quietly made some small adjustments to their consumer postpaid smartphone plans – replacing their top end Unlimited Elite plan with Unlimited Premium. AT&T Unlimited Premium Video Unlimited Premium Plan Differences The Unlimited Elite Plan was AT&T’s top-tier consumer postpaid plan for smartphones, starting at $85/line for a single line of service. The […]
Peplink MAX BR2 Pro – Dual 5G Modems, Dual Ethernet WAN, and USB Tethering – At Last!
When Peplink announced the dual-5G powerhouse MBX Mini last November, we called it “The Ultimate Mobile Router, With A Price To Match” thanks to its eye-popping pricing. Today Peplink is launching the MAX BR2 Pro, bringing many of the capabilities of the MBX Mini (and some important new ones) to this new model – the […]
T-Mobile 5G Home and Small Business Internet – Portability Now Supported
For the past couple of years, T-Mobile has been competing with landline internet service by offering an unlimited “home internet” service for residences and small businesses for only $50/month which includes unlimited and unthrottled data only subject to deprioritization on congested towers. Congestion was often rare, as T-Mobile limited sign-up locations to areas where it […]
SpaceX Launches Official “Starlink For RVs” – Deprioritized Service That Can Be Paused As Needed
Earlier this month Starlink officially debuted a new Portability feature that allows residential Starlink service to be used while traveling away from your home service address – suddenly making Starlink vastly more appealing to RVers and Cruisers. Perhaps recognizing the resultant flood of demand, SpaceX has today come out with a new service offering based […]
Starlink Releases an Updated Map – Anticipated RVer & Boater Destination Timelines
Starlink updated their availability map to now be a blue in color (instead of green) and it gives official timeline estimates for many new locations including several Q2 – Q4 estimates for 2022 and Q1 estimates for 2023. Below is the new availability map that now shows “Available, Waitlist, and Coming Soon” Starlink Availability Map […]
Cellphone Carriers Planning Price Increases
AT&T and Verizon are both planning price increases for existing customers.
Starlink “Portability” Is Here – Enabling Roaming Across North America, For A Price
Back in March we reported that a section on “Service Portability” was added to the Starlink Terms of Service, and that we suspected that this feature would officially roll out soon. And indeed – for the past two months, all Starlink customers have discovered that Portability was indeed unofficially working, with the Starlink Dishy automatically […]
Is Starlink Preparing to Charge for Roaming?
A few Starlink customers noticed they received a $25 Tax Invoice for something called “Portability – FAKE”. Those that opened a support case with Starlink were quickly told it was a mistake and it would be removed from their account. Portability is how Starlink refers to roaming and it is listed in the Service Agreement […]
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