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Consumer Cellular Offers New ‘Unlimited’ Plan With Mobile Hotspot Capability for $60 – But It’s Really a 35GB Plan
Retiree-focused Consumer Cellular, an AT&T and T-Mobile MVNO, has re-worked their plan offerings. They have increased the price on two plans, and have introduced an ‘Unlimited’ Data Plan. This ‘unlimited’ data plan offers 35GB of high-speed data, and then ‘unspecified’ throttled data speeds after 35GB of use. Which carrier they assign to you – AT&T […]
Metro by T-Mobile adds $15 Unlimited Data “Bring Your Own” Tablet Plan
Metro by T-Mobile, T-Mobile’s prepaid subsidiary, recently added a new “bring your own device” tablet plan with unlimited data for $15/month. Metro’s two previous tablet plans were sold with the Alcatel JOY TAB tablet. There are two data plans sold with this device: Unlimited data with HD (1080p) streaming for $30/month Unlimited data with SD […]
weBoost X RV Outside Antenna Available Separately – 4G OTR Antenna for RVs
weBoost has at long last made their RV version of the 4G OTR Antenna available a la carte, and has branded it as the Drive X RV Outside Antenna. Last summer weBoost released a new cellular booster kit based on the Drive X / Drive 4G-X, but kitted with a more RV-friendly version of the 4G […]
Wi-Fi Technology Evolves: 6 GHz “Wi-Fi 6E” More Than Doubles Wi-Fi Network Capacity
The FCC last week approved the use of Wi-Fi technology over the 6 GHz spectrum band – more than doubling the amount of airwaves available for Wi-Fi networking. This new 6 GHz band adds on to the existing 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi frequency bands – and should go a long way towards reducing […]
T-Mobile Ramps Up Sprint Integration: Mid-Band 5G Coming in Philly and NYC, More Updates
T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint closed less than a month ago (our story), and the two companies have been hard at work ever since integrating their systems to become one. T-Mobile this morning announced the first major fruits of this labor, with a major expansion of 5G speeds and coverage going live in Philadelphia and (soon) New […]
AT&T Prepaid Increases AutoPay Discount on Unlimited Plus Plan, Extends Discount on Unlimited Plan, and Adds Referral Program
AT&T has once again extended the deadline for their promotional AutoPay discount on their Prepaid Unlimited Plan, and increased the amount of the AutoPay discount on their Prepaid Unlimited Plus Plan. They also have introduced a new Referral Program for prepaid accounts. Video Version Subscribe to our YouTube Channel AutoPay Discount AT&T has long […]
CloudFlare Family Introduces Free DNS Malware and Adult Content Filtering
Cloudflare is updating its popular Domain Name System (DNS) service with options to filter malware and adult content in a new initiative called Cloudflare Family. This comes two years after Cloudflare introduced its privacy and performance-focused DNS service, dubbed 1.1.1.1, which is now second only to Google for public DNS usage. For all the details […]
Black Wireless No Longer offering T-Mobile Plans, Current Customers Canceled Effective April 10
Black Wireless, a subsidiary of Red Pocket Mobile, began offering plans on the T-Mobile Network in early February 2020. Their multi-month plans in particular were pretty attractive, offering 70GB of data for only $25/month. But the multi-month plans became unavailable after only a few short weeks – as of February 26th, they were listed as […]
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