Mobile Internet News Center
From cellular plans, satellite internet, new product announcements to technology advancements.
Our goal is to provide analysis for how industry news impacts mobile internet for RVers and boaters.
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T-Mobile Upgrades Simple Choice Customers to Unlimited Data
In a surprise move, T-Mobile announced an upgrade for smartphone customers on legacy Simple Choice plans. On March 16, 2019, smartphone lines on legacy Simple Choice plans will be switched to unlimited on-device data, which will replace the tiered data cap, with no price change. Unlimited data always sounds great, but the change does come with some considerations, […]
OneWeb Launches First 6 Satellites Towards Ambitious Global Broadband Constellation
Everything about satellite broadband internet tends to be big and expensive. Big expensive satellites. Big awkward dish antennas that need to be precisely aimed. And of course – service costs that leave true broadband practical only for those with the biggest budgets too. OneWeb has set out to change all of this. We’ve been tracking […]
5G Getting Practical: Qualcomm Announces Second Generation X55 5G Modem Chipset
Fifth generation cellular technology is coming, and every carrier is cranking the hype machine up to eleven talking about how this amazing new technology has the potential to usher in dramatic improvements in connectivity – with insanely fast speeds and lower latencies that will usher in a whole range of new applications. Verizon rushed to […]
Reported Issues: Verizon Prepaid Unlimited Jetpack Plans Acting Wonky
Early March 2019 Update: Word is out that Verizon may have made some adjustments on their end to fix some of the issues. Many of our members have reported in significantly improved reliability. Since early January, we’ve been hearing numerous reports of issues with Verizon’s Prepaid Unlimited Jetpack Data Plans (pDUP) that are driving some […]
Welcome to the new Mobile Internet Resource Center (and Limited Time T-Shirt!)
We are proud to introduce you to your new Mobile Internet Resource Center! We first launched the resource center in August 2014, without much of a vision of what it would become. Initially it was just to be a place to track industry news in-between editions of our The Mobile Internet Handbook. We had no […]
T-Mobile Introduces the Coolpad Surf – Their First Mobile Hotspot With Band 71 Support
T-Mobile has finally brought Band 71 support to a data-only mobile hotspot device! The Coolpad Surf is T-Mobile’s newest hotspot and although it is fairly basic in terms of features, it does support T-Mobile’s newest LTE spectrum – 600MHz Band 71. Why is this important? T-Mobile is aggressively rolling out Band 71 across the country […]
Dealing with Overloaded Cellular Towers in Winter Snowbird RV & Cruising Destinations
This time of year, we start to hear an increase in reports of super slow speeds & disconnects on cellular data services. The reason for this is very often network congestion due to more and more RVers & boaters congregating in the few non-frozen parts of the country. It’s the annual snowbird flock. While you […]
Verizon Based Visible $40/mo Smartphone Plan Enables Android Compatibility, Hotspot Use Official
Visible is an app based prepaid phone service, a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon. Visible offers a single plan to customers: unlimited talk, text, and 5mbps capped speed, with mobile hotspot permitted for $40/month. Visible was launched in May of 2018, but only those customers who used iPhones had access to the app based service […]
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