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Dealing with Overloaded Cellular Towers in Winter Snowbird RV & Cruising Destinations
This time of year, we start to hear an increase in reports of super slow speeds & disconnects on cellular data services. The reason for this is very often network congestion due to more and more RVers & boaters congregating in the few non-frozen parts of the country. It’s the annual snowbird flock. While you […]
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Verizon Based Visible $40/mo Smartphone Plan Enables Android Compatibility, Hotspot Use Official
Visible is an app based prepaid phone service, a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon. Visible offers a single plan to customers: unlimited talk, text, and 5mbps capped speed, with mobile hotspot permitted for $40/month. Visible was launched in May of 2018, but only those customers who used iPhones had access to the app based service […]
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Upgrade Complete: Final Ten Iridium Next Satellites Launched!
Iridium Communications has been busy for the past two years replacing all 66 of their Iridium satellites with an entirely new generation – accomplishing this massive task without disrupting any existing services. Think of it like replacing the engines on a fleet of jumbo jets (in space), without landing them. SpaceX (the launch provider) describes […]
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AT&T to “Upgrade” Millions of 4G/LTE Phones to Pretend They Are 5G
UPDATE (2/5/2019): Apple Embracing 5GE Label in iOS 12.2 As we reported in December (original story below), several Android phones have been updated to display “5GE” over the past several weeks, and it appears as if Apple customers will soon be getting an “upgrade” to 5G on AT&T too. Over the past few days some […]
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