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Cable Bundles with Cellular: Comcast Rolling Out Xfinity Mobile Service, Charter Up Next
Cellular companies have been making it ever easier for customers to “cut the cord” – ditching their cable TV and even home internet services to go all cellular. Why keep paying a cable bill, when you can take all your shows with you by subscribing to various streaming TV apps? America’s largest (and least loved) […]
WiFiRanger Introduces Cellular-Integrated SkyPro LTE (and Millenicom Partnership)
WiFiRanger this week has announced the SkyPro LTE that combines the current SkyPro roof-mounted Wi-Fi receiver with an integrated LTE modem and antennas. Roof-mounted placement improves signal and performance by getting the cellular radio clear of obstructions and low-level clutter, while also eliminating any signal loss from long antenna cables running down into your RV. WiFiRanger […]
Netflix Adds ‘Offline’ Mode for Windows 10 Users
Netflix began offering customers the option to download videos to watch later on mobile devices via its Android and iOS apps late last year. Now, that feature is making the jump for downloading on a Windows 10 PC. To be able to download on a PC, users must use the Windows 10 app. Users who have the most recent version […]
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. […]
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