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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 […]
T-Mobile Launches Simple Choice “Data Only” Plans
A lot of us hate old-school phone calls. Cherie long ago actually moved the “Phone” app off the front page of her iPhone, and has said she would delete it if she could. Me – I keep the ringer off, and only answer incoming calls from a small handful of VIPs. Text, iMessage, FaceTime, or Skype us. […]
The End is Coming: AT&T Reminds Customers About Upcoming 2G Network Shutdown
AT&T last week began sending out letters to customers with old 2G-only devices still active on their plans, reminding them that as of January 1st 2017 those devices will become completely obsolete and unusable. And in some parts of the country – the shutdown may be coming even sooner. This is hopefully not news for anyone – […]
Netflix Admits to Throttling AT&T and Verizon Video Streams
Last week when T-Mobile announced that YouTube had joined Binge On, CEO John Legere boasted in his video announcing the news that: “Here’s a little factoid for you: Did you know that when you watch Netflix on T-Mobile, you get it at 480p. And the duopoly (Verizon and AT&T) is actually delivering your Netflix content […]
Apple Releases iOS 9.3 With Verizon Wi-Fi Calling, Improved Wi-Fi Assist
In addition to launching new iPhone and iPad models, Apple today released the biggest iOS update since the major iOS 9 update in September. The headline features in iOS 9.3 are moderately interesting (as a night-owl, I am eager to try Night Shift), and the massive amount of bug fixes and refinements are very welcome. But lurking deep […]
Apple Introduces New iPad Pro With T-Mobile LTE Band 12, AT&T LTE Band 30
Apple today announced a new smaller 9.7″ iPad Pro – and it is a lot more than just a shrunken down version of the 12.9″ mega-tablet introduced late last year. For connectivity fans, the cellular radio is a big step up – making this the most connected tablet yet. Future Proofing With LTE Advanced The new […]
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