In our business, even before the pandemic, we’ve been helping customers find ways to work remotely. As an experiment I wanted to test this out for myself. So, I took a week trip to our family farmhouse in Isonville, KY. This is in a remote area with lots of hills and little to no cellular […]
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The Big 3 Achieve 5G Coverage for 230 Million Americans
As the two-year rollout of 5G cellular service continues, separate announcements from the big three phone carriers show that each is reaching at least 230 million Americans. According to an AT&T and Frontier Communications announcement Wednesday (Oct. 6), the two have struck a network deal that will support deployment of AT&T’s 5G mobility network. For […]
Update your Pepwave BR1 & Transit Mini Before the 3G Sunset
Are you using the Pepwave MAX BR1 Mini (Cat 4) or Transit Mini cellular routers? With the pending shutdown of 3G services next year, we want to make sure you upgrade your device. If the update is not completed before the 3G shutdown, it may fail to reestablish its cellular connection. For the firmware download […]
Avoid Costly Cellular Overages By Disabling this new iOS 15 Feature
With the latest iOS update, 15, there is a new option that allows you to let iCloud backups use your cellular data. Due to the amount of time these backups can take, it could cause you to quickly burn through your cellular data allotment. Even worse, this setting is enabled by default! If you want […]
New Possibilities in the 5G World
Most of the conversations and articles about 5G typically center around the possibilities of it replacing broadband Internet, or how we can combat the bandwidth limitations of the current LTE services. If you’re looking for some new content, check out the webcast Ericsson’s North America CEO, Niklas Heuveldop, did with the Washington Post recently. He’s […]
5Gstore Phones Are Open Again!
As of this morning, 5Gstore phone systems are operational. The outage, which was intermittent at times, affected our team both Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 28th. We apologize for missing your calls! Our team is standing by to assist you as needed. Thank you all for your support and understanding! Related posts: Widespread Cellular […]
Minutes That Matter/ Helping Heroes By Recycling Cell Phones
Cell Phone For Soldiers is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing cost-free communication services and emergency funding to active-duty military members and veterans. CPFS takes donations of your older cell phones, converts them to cash and then purchases prepaid calling cards and ships them to overseas military to call home for free. 5Gstore.com has […]
T-Mobile will retire Sprint’s LTE network in June 2022
It seems like quite some time ago now that we learned T-Mobile and Sprint would finally be merging their networks. Finally, T-Mobile has announced that it will retire Sprint’s LTE network this upcoming June. This comes about a year and half after shutting down Sprint’s 3G network. This is just the next step in T-Mobile’s […]
FCC Updates the US Cellular Coverage Map
It may be no surprise that not everyone that lives in the USA has access to high speed Internet. Some only have the option of cellular broadband service, which of course requires good cellular reception. Those of you who fall into this category will be interested to know that the President and the FCC are […]
Peplink & Assured Wireless – Using FirstNet MegaRange with SpeedFusion
Following the announcement of FirstNet MegaRange™, Peplink and Assured Wireless have created a partnership to combine SpeedFusion with High Power User Equipment (HPUE) – check out the Assured Wireless’ AW12 MegaRange™ Modem solution here. HPUE boosts transmission power up to 6x higher than traditional LTE equipment, which vastly improves cellular coverage in areas where data […]
