Personal Hot Spot

Discussion in 'Cellular - Voice - Data' started by oldtankinfool, May 27, 2014.

  1. Dr_Fandango44

    Dr_Fandango44 Road Train Member

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    Try millenicom. Apparently they use the same unit that verizon uses and you get 20gigs for around $70 mth.
    im thinking of switching. Don't know why verizon can't do the same. They used to have unlimited but that's gone away.
    Right now I'm on verizon. But 8 gigs a mth is not enough. Streaming is gonna get expensive doing it this way.
     
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  3. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    I switched from T-mobile to Verizon last summer. The T-mobile hotspot for an OTR driver is terrible. Very spotty coverage and usually 3G or less. By comparison the Verizon hotspot has very few areas of the country that don't have a signal and usually it is 4G.

    I have a data share plan with my wife, with something like 30G per month, unlimited talk and text, and pay through the nose for it (over $300 per month), but it is well worth it for me.
     
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  4. NoCoCraig

    NoCoCraig Road Train Member

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    I still have unlimited data from Verizon so I paid cash for my Samsung Galaxy S4 and use FoxFI on it for a hotspot. Works great
     
  5. Stile

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    I use WalMart Family Mobile, which uses the T-Mobile network.

    I wouldn't recommend it for everybody, but I seem to be getting unlimited internet through my Internet Sharing (Windows 8.1 phone paired to Windows 8.1 laptop).

    Coverage is hit or miss, but I'm not complaining... it's the best deal I can find since Verizon became tightwads.
     
  6. Richter

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    neevr heard of any that ofer 60-80 gig on verizion network. milenicome offers 20gb for 89.99 on the Verizion network. 10 bucks more for twice the data
     
  7. Richter

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    The rooster suckers at millenicom changed it to 90/month
     
  8. flash1994

    flash1994 Light Load Member

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    I like Verizon, expensive but you get what you pay for, just steer clear of sprint,!
     
  9. Aireal

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    lol... yeah about the same for the data plan, we had 4 phones, a tablet and hot spot. Family we paid for so all in all $381 a month, "we" only had 2 phones and hot spot.
     
  10. Trygg

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    Some dude I talked to at the Pilot in Gary, IN one morning while waiting for a shower was saying he was getting 60 gigs for 60$ a month, told me I was crazy paying 80 for 10. He also said they had a larger gb plan as well, can't for the life of me remember the company name he said it was through, wish I would've wrote it down but I just figured at the time he was just blowing smoke up my butt. Millenicome rings a bell in my mind though, I've heard of that one some other time too talking to somebody else, I don't remember what I heard about it, just remember the name.
     
  11. Richter

    Richter Road Train Member

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    "some dude at a truck stop told me" lol

    Um, no.... Unless he's grandfathered in from some old plan. I've done my reasearch and milenicom is still the cheapest per gig on the V network. There are cheaper options on others, but not on V
     
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