Data Plan Pricing Guide
Selecting your ideal cellular carrier and data plans can be an overwhelming adventure, especially for nomads who need to replace a home internet connection while being mobile.
This guide is here to help you do that, and is a living document that we'll keep updated as each of the major carriers change around their plans and offerings.
When considering cellular plans, we are focused on finding the best options for keeping a nomadic household online.
The focus here is on data. Lots and lots of glorious hotspotable data or data that can be used directly on tablets & laptops.
Within the member section of this guide is a huge spreadsheet that our team keeps constantly updated comparing all of the data plans we are tracking. This grid makes is super handy to quickly compare the features, authorized devices, costs and limitations of data plans.
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Plan Pricing Comparison Grid
Our team tracks most every data plan that offers more than 10GB of hotspot data in a month in a handy comparison grid for each carrier.
Other Plan Costs
Make sure you understand all of the variables of data plans costs - from fees, taxes, promotions, discounts and plan perks.
Smart Combinations
This section goes over some combinations of plans, including coverage maps of carrier combinations, to consider for various use factors - from high bandwidth junkies, to moderate consumers.
Conclusion: Review all of Your Options
Selecting an ideal plan can be overwhelming given all the options available. Having a good understanding of you own data needs is important in determine what you should look for in a plan. If you are dependent on being connected, having plans with two or more carriers may be a good idea. Be sure to look for discounts you may be eligible for such as age-based discounts, military, or employee discounts.
Plan Shopping Resources
We spend a lot of time tracking data plans and offer several ways to dive into researching them here on our resource center beyond our pricing grid.
To search all of the cellular data plans we're tracking, visit our:
Cellular Data Plan Gear Center
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To learn more about selecting data plans & understanding the terms used:
Considerations for Selecting Data Plans
To learn more about assembling a mobile internet setup around cellular (gear, signal enhancing, etc):
Cellular Data as Mobile Internet Resources
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