UPDATE (April 4, 2019): Verizon launched a week early to attempt to lay claim to launching the world’s first 5G smartphone service. We have published a story on the launch here: Verizon 5G Service Launches Early – 700Mbps Speed Tests Reported Verizon at last announced the first details of its upcoming mobile 5G plans this morning – […]
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T-Mobile Upgrades Simple Choice Customers to Unlimited Data
In a surprise move, T-Mobile announced an upgrade for smartphone customers on legacy Simple Choice plans. On March 16, 2019, smartphone lines on legacy Simple Choice plans will be switched to unlimited on-device data, which will replace the tiered data cap, with no price change. Unlimited data always sounds great, but the change does come with some considerations, […]
OneWeb Launches First 6 Satellites Towards Ambitious Global Broadband Constellation
Everything about satellite broadband internet tends to be big and expensive. Big expensive satellites. Big awkward dish antennas that need to be precisely aimed. And of course – service costs that leave true broadband practical only for those with the biggest budgets too. OneWeb has set out to change all of this. We’ve been tracking […]
5G Getting Practical: Qualcomm Announces Second Generation X55 5G Modem Chipset
Fifth generation cellular technology is coming, and every carrier is cranking the hype machine up to eleven talking about how this amazing new technology has the potential to usher in dramatic improvements in connectivity – with insanely fast speeds and lower latencies that will usher in a whole range of new applications. Verizon rushed to […]
Reported Issues: Verizon Prepaid Unlimited Jetpack Plans Acting Wonky
Early March 2019 Update: Word is out that Verizon may have made some adjustments on their end to fix some of the issues. Many of our members have reported in significantly improved reliability. Since early January, we’ve been hearing numerous reports of issues with Verizon’s Prepaid Unlimited Jetpack Data Plans (pDUP) that are driving some […]
T-Mobile Introduces The Coolpad Surf – Their First Mobile Hotspot With Band 71 Support
T-Mobile has finally brought Band 71 support to a data-only mobile hotspot device! The Coolpad Surf is T-Mobile’s newest hotspot and although it is fairly basic in terms of features, it does support T-Mobile’s newest LTE spectrum – 600MHz Band 71. Why is this important? T-Mobile is aggressively rolling out Band 71 across the country […]
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