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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 […]
FCC Announces Plans To Fine AT&T $100,000,000 Over Misleading “Unlimited” Data Claims
The FCC announced today that it is planning to fine AT&T a hefty $100 million as punishment for AT&T’s misleading claims around its “unlimited” data plans. Even though AT&T has not offered new customers unlimited data plans since 2007, many existing customers have stuck with AT&T to keep these perceived valuable grandfathered plans active. But few customers ever […]
T-Mobile Bringing Unlimited Data to Tethering / Hotspot Users
T-Mobile fan site TmoNews received some exciting leaked details of a change coming to all T-Mobile smartphone plans later this week: Unlimited Tethering Data In the past – not all T-Mobile smartphone plans included the ability to tether (via USB or by creating a personal hotspot). And those that did would cut off the tethering […]
T-Mobile + Dish Network? Is Potential Merger Good For RVers?
Rumors are buzzing this week about a possible merger between cellular carrier T-Mobile and satellite TV provider Dish Networks – with speculation that T-Mobile CEO John Legere would be given the reigns to bring his unique “#uncarrier” style to the combined company. Why combine two very different businesses? Unlike AT&T’s pending $48 billion dollar acquisition of Direct […]
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