Millenicom Verizon Hotspot customers will start receiving e-mails tonight that they will wish was an April Fool’s joke. The monthly price of our beloved 20GB Hotspot Plan is going up from $69.99 to $89.99/mo for all customers, effective May 1st. We’re actually relieved by this news. But then again, we’ve been privy to some of […]
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A Worthy Hotspot: The Pantech MHS291L
[dropcap type=”1″]In[/dropcap] theory a mobile hotspot (aka ‘MiFi’ or ‘Jetpack’) is one of the most useful pieces of mobile technology you can have in your arsenal. These little gadgets combine a wireless cellular modem, a router, and a battery into a tiny package about the size of a deck of cards. Turn one on, and you […]
The Millenicom Verizon Hotspot Plan Survival Guide
Updated in April 2014 to reflect the recent announced changes in terms and pricing. It’s no secret, we’re big fans of Millenicom. For those just joining in – Millenicom is a “Mobile Virtual Network Operator” (aka MVNO) – a company which does not own a wireless network of its own, but which makes arrangements with […]
Unlocked & Universal – Millenicom Retina iPad Mini Awesomesauce!
The big unanswered question from our announcement of the “Ridiculously Awesome” Millenicom iPad Mini deal – would the iPads be locked to T-Mobile or not? Millenicom expected that they would be, though my research lead me to expect that like other iPad’s the devices from Millenicom would actually be unlocked. Our Retina iPad Mini arrived this […]
Millenicom’s Ridiculously Awesome iPad Mini Deal
Our favorite mobile data reseller Millenicom suffered a big black eye recently, when Sprint suddenly canceled the upstream gateway arrangement that enabled Millenicom’s “Unlimited” plan. Many former customers are still left without service, as their device’s ESNs have not yet been unlocked for re-activation on other services – a hugely frustrating situation for Millenicom and customers […]
Millenicom & Sprint Break Up, Gets Back Together, Then Breaks Up Again
For those following mobile internet options, it’s been a head spinning bad teenage romance novel this past week. Millenicom Unlimited customers, who’s plans were on the Sprint footprint, were served a cold dish on October 18th: Sprint has discontinued service to our gateway provider, unfortunately that means we can no longer provide the Unlimited or […]
Millenicom: We’re All In This Together
After a week of playing phone and e-mail tag, on Friday we had a very positive talk with the owner of Millenicom in response to our Beware of the Overages of March post. Dennis Castle had pro-actively reached out to us within hours of the post going live, taking the post and the issues raised […]
Beware the Overages of March
Ever since Brutus killed Ceasar, the middle of March has been an ominous time of year. Our Story of Bandwidth Betrayal We love our Millenicom 20GB 3G/4G Hotspot Plan (which uses Verizon’s unrivaled LTE network), but at LTE speeds – 20GB can go pretty darned fast. And this is the biggest downside of life with blazing fast […]
Illustrated Mobile Internet Gadgetry for RVers
This is an update to our mobile internet gadgetry post we made over the summer, updated to reflect the changes to our setup since we made the leap to 4G. For the most current mobile internet information, be sure to visit our ‘Mobile Internet Resource Center’: We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback that this […]
