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Maximum Signal’s ‘Max-Amp’ RV Cellular Booster – Cleared For Sale!
Maximum Signal announced today (5/18/2015) that it has at last won its lengthy fight with the FCC to bring the Max-Amp 5-band cellular booster to market – with an official “Grant Of Equipment Authorization” being issued today We’ve had the Max-Amp on our radar for a very long time – it has been “a few weeks away from […]
Virgin Mobile Adds Extra Data to Data Done Right Plans
Earlier this year, Sprint’s prepaid division – Virgin Mobile launched the new ‘Data Data Right’ plan, available exclusively at Walmart. The relevant feature for data driven RVers was the multiline plans that offered usable data limits that were able to be shared as a mobile hotspot at no additional charge. This is a relatively rare feature, as many MVNO prepaid […]
WiFiRanger Debuts Lower Cost Mini, Sky2, and Mini Pack Bundle
WiFiRanger today introduced some new lower cost options to the Ranger family: the new micro-sized Mini indoor router, and the new roof-mounted Sky2. WiFiRanger Mini The new WiFiRanger Mini ($159.99) is the new little brother to the larger and somewhat more capable WiFiRanger Go2 router ($239.99). Both have 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n WiFi radios capable of making a […]
Rollover Data Soon Available for AT&T GoPhone Customers
Today AT&T Mobility announced that they are adding on their popular Rollover Data program to some of their prepaid GoPhone offerings effective May 15. New and existing customers who have either their smartphone $45 or $60 monthly plans will now be able to rollover unused high speed data to the next month. Earlier this year, […]
MaxxFi Mobile Broadband: Exxagerated… But Interesting
A new player in the RV Mobile Internet space has popped up recently: MaxxFi The initial pitch for MaxxFi seemed too good to be true – an RV-focused business offering high-end commercial grade hardware made dead simple to use via a 24/7 concierge service, with promises of incredible range and speeds, and connectivity automatically managed […]
Unlimited Data Update: AT&T Eases Off Throttle, T-Mobile Slows “The Top 3%”
AT&T and T-Mobile have both made some clarifications this week on how they “throttle” their unlimited data users. Or rather – how they insist that they do NOT throttle. But in practice – though the word “throttle” is being avoided – the “congestion management” practices being applied to unlimited data customers will have a significant slowing […]
Sprint Aims to “Densify” Network – and Advances on Chicago
Sprint this week announced its quarterly earnings results – revealing subscriber numbers that show it just barely clinging on to third place in the cellular market ahead of rapidly advancing T-Mobile. Much more interesting to those of us keen on mobile data – Sprint gave some guidance on the upcoming improvements coming to the Sprint LTE network. […]
Now Available: Top Signal Cobra 4G Mobile Cellular Booster
It’s been a long time since there has been a new entrant into the mobile boosting landscape, primarily due to the intensive 2014 FCC certification process. Since last May, when the new regulations went into effect, there have been few mobile 4G boosters to choose from – mostly only options from Wilson Electronics (now rebranded as […]
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