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New Cricket Unlimited Data Plan on the AT&T Network
Cricket Wireless is AT&T’s prepaid brand that has offered some attractive smartphone plans in the past. Today they announced that on Sunday they will have a new unlimited data plan available. The plan will cost $70/month (or $65/month with autopay), and includes unlimited on device data capped at 8 mbps speed when on LTE and […]
Verizon & Android? Use Android Pay and Get Some Free Data!
If you use Verizon with either their The Verizon Plan or More Everything Plans and have the Android Pay app that allows you to pay directly from your Android phone in retailers – Verizon is running a free data promo. The first time you check out in a retail location using the app (referred to […]
MoFi Announces Next Generation “All Providers” MOFI4500-4GXeLTE-SIM4 V2 Cellular Router
Canadian router manufacturer MoFi first came onto our radar last summer, and we became especially intrigued when MoFi launched the MoFi 4500 line in August of 2015, with an optional integrated cellular radio. Similar to a WiFiRanger Go or the Pepwave Surf SOHO, the MoFi routers provide a local Wi-Fi and ethernet LAN network, and support tethering to a […]
Premium STARZ TV Service Launches Stand-Alone App with Download Ability
In the past year, we’ve seen a trend of premium TV stations launching stand-alone apps that customers can subscribe to without being a cable, satellite or DSL customer. HBO launched HBONow last spring (just in time for Game of Thrones), followed by Showtime. This is wonderful for cord cutters who aren’t subscribing to content packages […]
FCC Announces Standardized Broadband “Nutrition Labels” – Makes Comparing Plans Easier
The FCC yesterday unveiled a new standardized labeling scheme for mobile and fixed broadband service that aims to make it easy for consumers to compare offerings between different providers, and to fully understand just what a given plan costs and provides The labels look (intentionally) like the standardized nutrition labeling found on food. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler […]
Baseball Fans: T-Mobile Offering Free Year of MLB.TV Premium – This Week Only!
A lot of RVers are baseballs fans, but one of the challenges of life on the road has always been catching your favorite team play while you are far away from home field. The odds of catching your favorite team on local TV where you happen to be is slim, satellite TV is often troublesome […]
Scoring “Free Data for Life” From T-Mobile
UPDATE: T-Mobile discontinued this offer for new signups as of May 7th, 2017. T-Mobile issued a statement to TmoNews explaining that 200MB just wasn’t interesting anymore: “When we launched Free Data For Life in 2013, 200MB of high-speed data was a lot. Today, customers want unlimited and we’re all in with T-Mobile ONE. Customers who […]
New Millenilynx NeverDrop Unlimited Data Plan from OmniCom [April Fools]
For the past few months we have been beta-testing a brand new data plan by mobile internet startup, OmniCom. Today, we have been given the green light to announce it to you. It’s a new kind of unlimited data plan and mobile device, that we think is exactly what RVers have been looking for. A simple […]
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