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The Resurgence of Unlimited Data: A Crazy Week In Review
Last week was the busiest ever here at the RV Mobile Internet Resource Center – starting with Verizon’s surprise announcement that it was bringing back unlimited data plans. This started a chain reaction – with every other carrier scrambling to respond with new or updated unlimited plans of their own. Here is a quick recap of the […]
AT&T Responds to Verizon & T-Mobile With Underwhelming Unlimited Plan Option
AT&T is the final member of the ‘big four’ nationwide cellular carriers to respond to Verizon’s surprise announcement of a reintroduction of unlimited data plans. Four days after Verizon announced it would start offering an unlimited data plan again, AT&T today announced it will also be doing the same. AT&T Chief Marketing Officer David Christopher had this […]
Sprint Responds to Verizon & T-Mobile – Also Adding 10GB Tethering and HD Video
With Verizon’s surprise announcement that they are once again offering an ‘unlimited’ plan, and T-Mobile’s speedy retort in ‘one upping’ that offer, we’ve been waiting patiently to see the response from the other two major carriers. Sprint has now responded, and their response is a basic ‘matching’ of what Verizon & T-Mobile have decided to […]
AT&T’s Wireless Home Phone & Internet Rural Plan – 250GB for $60/month!
March 2018 Update: We are receiving reports from AT&T reps in these rural markets that this plan seems to have quietly retired along with Unlimited Plus on February 28, 2018. Existing customers should be grandfathered in. AT&T did release a brand new Wirless Internet device that replaces the Home Base in late 2017. And in […]
Verizon Extends Grandfathered UDP Cancelation Deadline Until March 16th
In early January Verizon welcomed in the New Year by sending out thousands of letters to customers with out-of-contract grandfathered unlimited data plans – giving notice that they must change to a limited data plan by February 16th or face unilateral account cancelation. But then earlier this week Verizon brought back a new Unlimited Data Plan. […]
T-Mobile Attempts to “One Up” Verizon – Matching 10GB Tethering and HD Video
UPDATE: T-Mobile One+ Price Drop T-Mobile used to charge $15/mo to add on the “One Plus” features to a line of service – giving subscribers access to HD video streaming and faster international roaming data speeds along with a few other perks. But the newly updated basic One plan now includes HD video streaming, and the […]
Verizon Brings Back Unlimited Data Plans – With Some Catches
In a surprising Sunday evening press release, Verizon has announced that starting tomorrow morning (February 13th) it will once again be offering unlimited data plans. This is a shocking move from a company that just a year ago was swearing that Unlimited Data Plans made no financial sense, with Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo frequently speaking […]
HughesNet “Gen5” Satellite Internet Service – Coming April 1st!
Ever since satellite internet provider HughesNet launched its 5th generation satellite in December, we’ve been eagerly awaiting details around the service plans, pricing, and when the next generation service would roll out. But so far all HughesNet has teased the world with is this: “EchoStar XIX, the world’s highest-capacity broadband satellite, will power HughesNet Gen5, the next […]
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