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T-Mobile Home Internet – $50/month Unlimited LTE – But Is It RV Mobile Friendly?
After six months of testing, T-Mobile has expanded its trial Home Internet program by putting up a new website and creating a waiting list for customers to sign up. In early 2019, T-Mobile started testing this LTE-based home-internet service to a limited number of invite-only subscribers. This service was specifically targeted at providing broadband service […]
Visible Introduces Party Pay – Reducing Cost of Unlimited Verizon Plan to As Low as $25/month
Visible, a prepaid subsidiary of Verizon, today has launched and announced their new way for groups to save money on their already low $40/month unlimited prepaid smartphone plan. They’re calling it Party Pay, and it while it might sound similar to family plans – there are some major differences that make this an incredibly flexible […]
AT&T Announces New Smartphone Plans – Unlimited Starter, Extra, and Elite
Update 11/21/2019: Elite Plan is live today, the article below is updated with this information. AT&T announced some upcoming changes to its postpaid smartphone plan line-up yesterday, including one plan retirement, the introduction of two new plans and a tease for a third new plan. (Elite plan is live as of November 21, 2019!) Additionally, […]
StraightTalk Enables Mobile Hotspot on Unlimited Data Plans
StraightTalk is a TracFone brand that provides prepaid, no-contract phone service on the Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile networks. While they have offered data-only plans for mobile hotspot devices for years, their smartphone plans have never officially included the use of personal mobile hotspot. Last week however, they snuck the feature into their $55/month unlimited […]
T-Mobile Promises Nationwide 5G – By The End of 2019?!?
T-Mobile made a surprisingly bold 5G announcement as part of a new smartphone press release issued yesterday: T-Mobile’s 600MHz spectrum, also known as LTE Band 71, will offer 5G service nationwide by the end of 2019 – providing 5G coverage for 200 million Americans. This will put T-Mobile light years ahead of the other carriers in […]
Verizon to Bundle Disney+ With Eligible Unlimited Plans
Today, October 23, 2019, Verizon announced a partnership with the forthcoming Disney+ video streaming platform. The announcement states that all new and existing Verizon Unlimited (postpaid only) customers, and all new Fios and 5G Home Internet customers will be provided with 12 months of Disney+ service – for free – as part of being an […]
Hulu Adds Support For Offline Downloads
Video streaming service Hulu has added the ability to download episodes for offline viewing. Finally. The new feature is now available for customers who are subscribed to Hulu’s ‘No Ads’ tier of service, and using iOS devices. Unfortunately, this feature is not available for desktop or Android use yet – it is specific to iOS mobile […]
Consumer Cellular Adds Data To Plans – Without Price Increase
Consumer Cellular, an AT&T and T-Mobile MVNO, is adding more data to their current phone plans – at no extra cost to customers. Consumer Cellular offers phone and tablet based plans with seniors being their target market. Consumer Cellular is know for solid customer service, and recently formed a retail partnership with the retailer Target. […]
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