Mobile Internet News Center
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Starlink Begins Global Pre-Orders for Satellite Internet Service – Beta Expands Again
SpaceX last night (February 8th) opened the doors for anyone to be able to sign up for Starlink satellite broadband service – for the first time allowing customers world wide to place orders and make an initial $99 deposit.
Visible Makes Changes to Party Pay, Referral Codes, and International Calling/Texting
Visible, Verizon’s prepaid subsidiary, made some changes today to some of the features of their popular unlimited smartphone plan. The plan is $40/month for unlimited calling, txt and data. Making the plan particularly attractive to our audience, is it includes unlimited personal mobile hotspot use from the phone just capped at 5 Mbps speeds for use with one device at a time.
New AT&T Prepaid Data Plans for Hotspots and Tablets
AT&T Prepaid sells smartphone plans on their website, but they also offer some data-only plans that are available in-store only. They recently added some new plans to this line-up, and also added more data to two existing plans.
New Turbo Hotspot 2 by Wingtech for Cricket Wireless and AT&T Business
Cricket Wireless and AT&T Business are both offering a new entry-level mobile hotspot – the Turbo Hotspot 2 by Wingtech.
The Turbo Hotspot 2 is a basic hotspot device, with support for both 2.4 and 5GHz Wi-Fi.
Cricket Simply Data Plan Introduces Device Restrictions – Do NOT MOVE SIM CARDS from Routers!
It appears as if AT&T prepaid subsidiary Cricket Wireless made some very unfortunate changes last week to one of our most frequently recommended data plans – the Cricket Simply Data plan.
Starlink Beta Expands – But Beware of Mobility Restrictions Before Ordering!
Starlink’s ongoing public beta has been generating an unprecedented amount of interest and anticipation – with many nomads dreaming of someday soon having access to fast low-latency satellite internet connections that will work just about anywhere. But taking Starlink on the road is still NOT possible.
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