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Sprint Responds to Verizon & T-Mobile – Also Adding 10GB Tethering and HD Video
With Verizon’s surprise announcement that they are once again offering an ‘unlimited’ plan, and T-Mobile’s speedy retort in ‘one upping’ that offer, we’ve been waiting patiently to see the response from the other two major carriers. Sprint has now responded, and their response is a basic ‘matching’ of what Verizon & T-Mobile have decided to […]
AT&T’s Wireless Home Phone & Internet Rural Plan – 250GB for $60/month!
March 2018 Update: We are receiving reports from AT&T reps in these rural markets that this plan seems to have quietly retired along with Unlimited Plus on February 28, 2018. Existing customers should be grandfathered in. AT&T did release a brand new Wirless Internet device that replaces the Home Base in late 2017. And in […]
Verizon Extends Grandfathered UDP Cancelation Deadline Until March 16th
In early January Verizon welcomed in the New Year by sending out thousands of letters to customers with out-of-contract grandfathered unlimited data plans – giving notice that they must change to a limited data plan by February 16th or face unilateral account cancelation. But then earlier this week Verizon brought back a new Unlimited Data Plan. […]
T-Mobile Attempts to “One Up” Verizon – Matching 10GB Tethering and HD Video
UPDATE: T-Mobile One+ Price Drop T-Mobile used to charge $15/mo to add on the “One Plus” features to a line of service – giving subscribers access to HD video streaming and faster international roaming data speeds along with a few other perks. But the newly updated basic One plan now includes HD video streaming, and the […]
Verizon Brings Back Unlimited Data Plans – With Some Catches
In a surprising Sunday evening press release, Verizon has announced that starting tomorrow morning (February 13th) it will once again be offering unlimited data plans. This is a shocking move from a company that just a year ago was swearing that Unlimited Data Plans made no financial sense, with Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo frequently speaking […]
HughesNet “Gen5” Satellite Internet Service – Coming April 1st!
Ever since satellite internet provider HughesNet launched its 5th generation satellite in December, we’ve been eagerly awaiting details around the service plans, pricing, and when the next generation service would roll out. But so far all HughesNet has teased the world with is this: “EchoStar XIX, the world’s highest-capacity broadband satellite, will power HughesNet Gen5, the next […]
AT&T Introduces ‘International Day Pass’ Option for International Travel
(1/26/17) – AT&T is now “making it easier to stay connected when you travel” internationally by allowing their customers to use their existing cellular and data plans in other countries. Starting tomorrow, AT&T will offer their new International Day Pass option to personal account plans. For $10 per device per 24-hour period in over 100 countries – customers can utilize […]
AT&T Based Prepaid Mobile Hotspot Plans with H20 Wireless’ ‘Bolt’
(1/25/17) – Limited Time Promotion Alert: An MIA member alerted us to a current Bolt promotion offering 20GB of 4G LTE data for $50. Not only is this 10GB more data than Bolt typically offers on their $50 plan, but all of the data is advertised to be at LTE speeds. And, this promo beats out […]
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