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T-Mobile On A Roll: Aims to Close Coverage Gap This Year?!
T-Mobile has been bragging this week about new independent reports heaping praise on the Uncarrier’s customer satisfaction, and especially upon its network. First up was the latest tracking survey from Nielsen Mobile Insights showing T-Mobile continuing to maintain a slight lead over Verizon in overall customer satisfaction – an honestly impressive achievement considering that T-Mobile was […]
Huge Auto-Download Windows 10 “Anniversary Update” Coming August 2nd
Windows users – brace yourself for a huge download! As we first warned about before Windows 10 was released last July – one of the major new “features” in Windows 10 is that Microsoft promises that it will never be out of date. Past versions of Windows earned a reputation for viruses and malware in large […]
[Updated] Verizon Update: Three Way Assault Underway on Unlimited Data Plans
September 19, 2016 ALERT: Customers using their unlimited data plan in a T1114 home router have begun receiving disconnect letters from Verizon if they don’t switch to a ‘compatible plan’. This appears to be happening even to folks in contract. We are monitoring this closely, and deep in research to learn more. We do not yet know how this […]
Breaking News: Verizon Moving Against Unlimited Plans?
July 27 UPDATE: We’ve just put out a new story summarizing everything we have learned to date. A post on Reddit a few hours ago from someone claiming to have insider information seems to indicate that Verizon may be on the verge of making a move to force the heaviest users off of grandfathered unlimited data […]
4G Antenna Shop Offers Unlimited Data Plan on AT&T’s Network Starting at $60/mo
We’re always keeping an eye out for interesting cellular data plans that are a good fit for the needs of RVers. In particular, we have been on the lookout for a reasonable AT&T based offering since the sudden demise of Harbor Mobile a couple months ago. Earlier this week we had a reader contact us asking about a newer […]
Amazon Video Update Lets Androids Download Bulk Offline Video
Amazon was one of the first streaming video services to offer the ability to download shows for later viewing offline – rolling that feature out last September in an update to the Amazon Instant Video App for iOS and Android. This is a very handy feature for RVers who are frequently on data-limited or unreliable […]
Verizon Prepaid Data Plans Get Always-On Data
Earlier this month nationwide cellular carrier Verizon re-tooled all of their postpaid plans. One of the popular new features is ‘Safety Mode’ which allows customers to choose what happens when they hit their data cap – be charged overages, or be throttled to slower speeds. Now Verizon is introducing a similar concept for their prepaid customers […]
Cellular Carriers Race To Capture Pokemon Mania: Offer Free Data, Charging
It seems like the biggest story in the tech world over the past week has been the explosive launch of Pokemom Go, the addictive iOS and Android game that has millions of people out wandering the streets and getting exercise – all in the hope of catching some invisible and adorably cute little monsters. To […]
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