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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 […]
2018 Mobile Internet Year in Review & Looking Forward Into 2019
2018 has been yet another wild ride in the world of mobile internet! The undeniable biggest story of the year was the surprise release of an actual (mostly) unlimited mobile hotspot data plan from Verizon, once again making Verizon an obvious Top Pick for anyone with serious mobile data needs. But there were plenty of […]
AT&T Discontinuing Unlimited Plus for Business Lines – Are Consumer Lines Next?
AT&T’s Unlimited Plus plan was one of our Top Picks of 2017. Particularly because you could add on mobile hotspot lines with no high-speed usage limits – this plan developed a massive following amongst many with demanding internet needs. AT&T retired this sweet plan in February 2018, but everyone who heeded our warnings and grabbed […]
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 […]
AT&T Launches Extremely Underwhelming Mobile 5G Plan in 12 Cities
The entire mobile industry has been talking incessantly for the past year about how the upcoming fifth generation of cellular technologies will revolutionize connectivity – with some even going so far as saying that 5G will be the “fundamental platform for the fourth industrial revolution”. AT&T in particular has been pushing hard to be the […]
Two Networks, One Pocket – Carriers Are Finally Starting to Provision Smartphone eSIMs
One of the headline features of this year’s crop of new iPhone models (our story) was support for having two cellular plans active at once – on one device. Apple has enabled this feature by pioneering eSIM (embedded SIM) technology that allows you to use one traditional physical SIM card, and one virtual SIM installed […]
Carriers Preview Upcoming Mobile 5G Technology & Devices
This week in Hawaii mobile chipmaker Qualcomm is hosting its Snapdragon Technology Summit featuring the first public demonstration of standards-based 5G technology, and the first (almost) hands-on previews of several upcoming 5G devices. Verizon and Inseego have used this event to announce the MiFi 5G NR, Verizon’s first 5G hotspot. And AT&T and Netgear have […]
Project Fi Rebranded to Google Fi – New Features and Phone Options
Google’s Project Fi has long been an interesting and unique entry in the mobile connectivity space, designed to use WiFi along with multiple cellular networks behind the scenes to automatically pick the best option wherever you happen to be to deliver voice, text and data service – even internationally! Google announced some major changes to the service […]
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