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Harbor Mobile Offers Businesses AT&T Prepaid Service With Hotspot/Tethering
During our regular news scan we discovered Harbor Mobile, an AT&T business reseller, who offers affordable AT&T prepaid plans to businesses and sole-proprietors. They announced a sale today on their Facebook Page, knocking a few bucks off their already low prices. They have not shared for how limited of time the pricing is valid for. $22 (regularly […]
Karma Neverstop – Now Claims It’s Not Intended for Extreme Use
Back in November, Sprint network reseller Karma announced their new unlimited Neverstop plan. With the plan, up to 3 devices can connect to a $149 Karma Go dedicated hotspot device, and customers can then enjoy unlimited data usage for $50/month. The limitation of Neverstop is that speeds are capped at a maximum of 5 mbps. Many […]
New 802.11ah “HaLow” Wi-Fi Standard Aims To Double Range (But Don’t Get Excited)
The Wi-Fi Alliance today officially debuted “Wi-Fi HaLow” – a new Wi-Fi standard for “low power, long range Wi-Fi” that aims to double the range of existing Wi-Fi technologies – while being vastly more power efficient too! But don’t get too excited about better campground Wi-Fi just yet – the target for this technology is low-speed connections to […]
2015 RV Mobile Internet Year in Review
2015 has been a fabulous year for keeping connected on the road – with technology options, speeds, and coverage all getting better than ever. This is our end-of-year quick update on the state of the RV mobile internet world – chronicling some of the major changes that happened in 2015, and giving a glimpse at what we’re most looking forward […]
AT&T To End Contracts on January 8
Earlier in the year, AT&T made a move following in the footsteps of T-Mobile to start phasing out 2-year contracts by only offering them in select stores. Verizon followed up with a similar announcement later in the summer. Today, news has leaked via an employee memo that contracts will be completely phased out for all phone […]
Not Everyone is Happy with T-Mobile’s “Binge On” Optimizations
T-Mobile’s new “Binge On” feature is one of the best things to ever happen to streaming-starved nomads. With Binge On – T-Mobile customers can watch an unlimited amount of video streamed from supported video services like HBO and Netflix without it counting against monthly high-speed data limits. The only catch – with Binge On enabled, video from supported sites is scaled to […]
OmniLynx Offers Buyback of 6620L JetPacks for $15
This afternoon former OmniLynx participants received an e-mail offering a voluntary buyback of $15 for their Novatel 6620L Jetpack. A prepaid shipping label is provided to those who choose to participate, and the $15 will arrive in the form of a PayPal payment. Considering the unlimited Verizon deal offered included the Jetpack for free, but […]
Google’s Project Fi Adds Data Only Tablet Option
Today Google announced that Project Fi customers can add on a data only tablet plan to their account, at no extra charge per month. Just like their phone plans, you simply pay for the data you use at $10/GB. Project Fi was announced this past spring and is still rolling out. It is a pretty interesting option […]
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