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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. […]
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. […]
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