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Verizon to End 10GB for $80/mo Promo on July 23
July 23 Update: Verizon has extended this offer, with no announced expiration data. In our normal scan of the carriers, we noticed that Verizon has posted your last chance to snag their promotion on 10GB of data on their More Everything shared plans. In April they started the promotion, dropping the price of 10GB […]
RVGeeks Release WiFiRanger Installation Video / Video Chat Q&A Announcement
Here at RVMobileInternet.com we always have our ears and eyes out looking for great content to share with our readers about mobile internet topics. If you’ve never heard of The RV Geeks, we highly recommend you check them out. They have become YouTube’s Top DIY RV Tips resource – creating lots of great step-by-step instructional […]
T-Mobile “Mobile Without Borders” Extends Coverage to Canada & Mexico
T-Mobile’s newest #uncarrier “Amped” move announced today is huge news for RVers: starting July 15th T-Mobile will offer free seamless roaming across Canada and Mexico. T-Mobile has long been a favorite of travelers because all Simple Choice plans offer free unlimited data and text messaging in 120+ countries worldwide, but voice calls were charged per-minute, […]
GigSky Lets Apple SIM iPads Roam Around the World
When the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 were released last October – Apple also debuted the magical multi-carrier “Apple SIM” card. Rather than having to pick a cellular carrier at purchase time and then paying roaming fees to your home carrier when you travel, the Apple SIM lets you select your carrier and […]
T-Mobile Clarifies Throttling – Defines “Unlimited” as 21GB
T-Mobile news tracking site TmoNews has noticed a subtle recent change in the fine print attached to T-Mobile “Unlimited Data” plans. Last month T-Mobile began enforcing “Data Prioritization” that slowed down “customers who use more data than what is used by 97% of what all customers use in a given month” on congested towers – but it […]
OneWeb Partners With Airbus To Provide Satellite Internet “To Everyone, Everywhere”
Satellite internet startup OneWeb took a major step forward this week – announcing that it has entered into a joint venture with European aerospace giant Airbus to mass produce 900 low earth orbit micro-sized satellites designed to bring “Internet to everyone, everywhere on Earth.” OneWeb has an incredibly ambitious plan to set up a satellite assembly line […]
Sprint Kills “The Fairness Algorithm” – Ceases Throttling Heavy Users
A year ago Sprint introduced “The Fairness Algorithm” that would slow speeds down for customers who were amongst the top 5% of data users on the Sprint network – but only when connected to congested towers. This was in sharp contrast to AT&T’s throttling policy at the time that slowed down unlimited data users who used […]
Warning: Initial weBoost Drive 4G-X Orders Ship With Wrong Power Supply
We’ve heard the past several days from a few readers who ordered the brand new weBoost Drive 4G-X cellular booster and who received some of the initial deliveries. To their surprise, these readers discovered when they first plugged the 4G-X in the booster would get extremely hot, and the booster would also not seemingly function properly – often […]
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