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Apple Fans: Brace For Impact (To Your Data Plans)
Tomorrow (Tuesday, September 13th) is a big day for Apple: iOS 10 and watchOS 3 are being released to the public, soon to be installed on hundreds of millions of phones and tablets and wrists around the world. And while new features and bug fixes (for free!) are always welcome, every year we hear from […]
Free Streaming Update: AT&T’s “Data Free TV” & Verizon’s NFL Mobile Partnership
AT&T late last week announced a major new initiative for DirecTV customers likely to be of interest to some RVers: Data Free TV: Video streaming that does not count against your monthly usage limits! Not to be outdone – Verizon also announced that it was sponsoring the NFL Mobile App to let Verizon customers: “Watch live local and […]
Apple’s New iPhone 7: Understanding Carrier Models & Cellular Limitations
Apple launched the new iPhone 7 yesterday – showing off major new features like water resistance, stereo speakers, and some extremely impressive new camera capabilities. For mobile internet fans – the big news on the cellular front is yet another leap in theoretical peak speed – with the addition of 3x cellular carrier aggregation. Apple describes it this […]
T-Mobile Yawns At Verizon’s LTE Advanced Launch, Rolls Out 4×4 MIMO And More
When Verizon made a big splash launching its LTE Advanced network last week, we pointed out that this was actually the launch of a marketing campaign, not a new technology. We noted that T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T have all also deployed LTE Advanced carrier aggregation to various extents, and said: “LTE Advanced is indeed awesome technology, […]
FoxFi Fans: Beware Upgrading to Android 7.0 “Nougat”
Update: The newer tool called PDAnet, from the makers of FoxFi, supports more recent versions of Android. Google’s newest major Android Operating System release, version 7.0 “Nougat”, is beginning to trickle out to the world – and word is spreading that new security improvements under the hood will permanently break the once popular FoxFi application that […]
Verizon Making “Safety Mode” Free – Dropping $5/mo Fee
When Verizon announced the New Verizon Plan in July, one of the core features was “Safety Mode” – an optional feature which eliminated $15/GB overage charges. Instead – once the high-speed data allotment for the month is used up, if “Safety Mode” is enabled your account will get throttled back to glacially slow 128kbps for the […]
Verizon Announces LTE Advanced – 50% Faster in 461 Cities
After teasing the world with a clock on its home page counting down to the start of the next generation of wireless, Verizon this morning underwhelmed by announcing a new marketing campaign promoting “Verizon LTE Advanced”. LTE Advanced is indeed awesome technology, but it is not Verizon exclusive, and it is not new. Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, […]
T-Mobile Revises T-Mobile One, Introduces Unlimited Tethering One+ Plan
T-Mobile went “all in” on offering Unlimited Data less than two weeks ago with the announcement of the T-Mobile One plan – but in the process generated heated criticism by eliminating any included high-speed tethering data. Today T-Mobile is responding to that criticism in a huge way, by announcing: “T-Mobile today proved once again why it’s […]
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