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T-Mobile Prepaid Shakes Up Plans – Adds Unlimited ‘One Prepaid’ Option
T-Mobile took some time on Sunday to shake up their direct prepaid offerings, tossing 7 old prepaid plans into the compost bin and bringing forth 3 new plans. Good news – one of these new plans involves unlimited data: T-Mobile One Prepaid. Bad news – there are some catches. As of March 26th, 2017, T-Mobile […]
Peplink Embraces LTE-A at Last, but Basic MAX BR1 Update Seemingly Delayed
We’ve been eagerly waiting for mobile router manufacturer Peplink to embrace LTE-Advanced technology in their cellular-integrated Pepwave routers – and at last Peplink has announced this long delayed and often teased update across the bulk of their product line! Peplink describes the advantages of the upgraded models this way: LTE-A also supports newer region and carrier […]
Mobile Pricing Revealed for HughesNet “Gen5” Satellite Internet Service
We’ve been tracking the rollout of the fifth generation service from satellite internet provider HughesNet for a long time now. HughesNet “Gen5” is set to offer peak speeds of 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up, a substantial improvement over older satellite internet services that will make HughesNet a lot more competitive with LTE cellular technology. And unlike HughesNet’s […]
GoPhone Adds Unlimited Plan, Increases $40/Month plan to 6GB
GoPhone, AT&T’s prepaid subsidiary, has added an unlimited data offering to their line-up. A non-competitive unlimited data offering, that is. For $60/month ($65/month without auto pay), you get unlimited on device data (and calling and texting) at slow speeds – throttle cap is set at 3Mbps. In case that cap is not slow enough for […]
AT&T Unleashes Affordable Unlimited Data for “Connected Cars” – Chevy OnStar or ZTE Mobley
Updates Here are additional updates to this story: Summer 2018: The Mobley device seems to have been removed from AT&T’s site entirely and no longer available for sale directly from them. We also are getting sporadic reports of the Connected Car $20/month plan being activated for new customers again who do obtain a Mobley. […]
Cricket Imposes 22GB Network Management – Adds ‘Stream More’ Service
(2/27/2017) Cricket, AT&T’s wholly owned prepaid subsidiary, will be imposing a 22GB ‘congestion management’ (network management) threshold to it’s unlimited plan accounts beginning on April 2, 2017. This change has been quietly rolled out on Cricket’s ‘Mobile Broadband Information’ page, as well as through texts to current customers. Cricket already throttles all speeds to 8mbps down (throttling […]
AT&T Tries Again: New Unlimited Plus & Choice Plans are WAY More Competitive
(Update May 2018): AT&T has retired these plans, and no longer allows activation of mobile hotspot devices even on grandfathered in plans. More details: Reminder: Grace Period to Add AT&T Unlimited Plus / Choice Hotspot Lines Ends on 5/6/2018 (Update Sept, 2017): AT&T unlimited plans now include free HBO access. More details: https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/att-adds-free-hbo-access-to-unlimited-plans/ (Original: February 2017): […]
Verizon Quietly Retires “XL” and Larger Data Plans
One of our favorite features of Verizon’s tiered cellular plans was how easy Verizon made it to change how much data you were signed up for each month. You could easily toggle between Verizon’s defined sizes as needed: S, M, L, XL, XXL – with extended data buckets available all the way up to 100GB for $450/mo. […]
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