There are now two Cricket Wireless unlimited data plans, the newer of which starts at $55 a month with a permanent 3 Mbps speed cap.
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No need to dig through settings and match up Bluetooth codes on the Nexus 9 and Pixel C. They can instantly connect to phones on the same Google account.
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I’ve been a T-Mobile customer since the company was called Voicestream – yeah, that long. One of the things I always loved about the service was that I could tether a PDA, tablet, or laptop to my phone and be able to get work done anywhere I needed to. I’m not a road warrior, so I don’t use a lot of data when tethered, nor do I tether very often, but I need to be able to tether with only a little notice. Regardless of whether I was using Windows Mobile or Android, tethering was never terribly difficult, I just opened the settings, turned it on, and away I went. When ...
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How do you get online when you travel? Well, with your smartphone, obviously, but when there’s heavier lifting to be done, a lot of us rely on the personal hotspots our phones can generate, turning their cellular data connections into WiFi signals the rest of our personal electronics can connect to. As if smartphone users didn’t face enough obstacles against easy hotspot creation from carriers (not to mention the companies behind mobile platforms being all too willing to help carriers enforce their ...
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Tethering is one of those things that many of us got really excited about way back in the early days of cell phones. Here we had a little phone that we could connect to our laptop which would let us access the Internet or closed network (the office, university, etc.) without having to plug into a land-line to do so. Speeds weren’t all that great, but being able to work from anywhere often trumped that. Today we have our choice of various high-speed technologies offered by any one of a handful of cellular carriers. We also have numerous ways to connect our laptops to our phones ...
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Finally, after years of you and I telling them so, mainstream carriers are starting to offer “unlimited” plans. Why the “air quotes”? Because even though we’re told they’re “unlimited”, these plans still have “limits”. We had unlimited mobile to mobile minutes (but not to land lines or to people on other carriers), then unlimited talk time (but only on the weekends and after 7pm). Eventually we got unlimited texting (which we really should have had all along, but that’s another article entirely). The odd-ball has always been ...
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I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for well over a decade. Since I picked up my T-Mobile G1 (way back in the day) I’ve been a happy user of both the carrier and Android as a platform. As time progressed I loved the ability to tether other devices to my smartphone and use some of my 5GB of data on a tablet or laptop. I was never a heavy user of tethered data, and only used it when WiFi wasn’t an option. Then T-Mobile tried to tell everyone that “tethered data” was somehow different from “device data” and phones ...
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