Here’s a throwback: Verizon is launching a new LTE cellular phone, but it’s not your typical smartphone. It’s a phone that looks and feels like a desk phone, but it’s got LTE and eSIM for maximum mobility and easy set-up. Verizon Business and Yealink announced the One Talk T67LTE wireless desk phone, based on the […]
Category: 5G
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 […]
Second-Gen Starlink Network Promises Faster Speeds, More People Served
Hundreds of thousands of internet users continue to wait for access to SpaceX’s broadband network. So how will the company keep up with the demand? SpaceX has revealed a few more information about its second-generation Starlink network, which will be made up of nearly 30,000 satellites—or about 17 times larger than the existing network.Starlink has […]
The ugly side of 5G: New cell towers spoil the scenery
The telecom giants promise that 5G technology will wow us with dramatically expanded, superfast wireless service. But they don’t mention that it also means installing a greater amount of equipment, including cell towers, in ugly and intrusive ways. Property owners and local governments across the country are pushing back with a surge of grass-roots objections […]
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 […]
Sierra Wireless Introduces the World’s Most Advanced 5G Router Portfolio
The performance, capability, and reliability of the XR Series complement our award-winning network, and it’s been great to see the positive feedback from our customers who are trialing the XR Series. Sierra wireless explains “We’re also working with our customers to deploy instant connectivity and ease of scale across a wide range of industries and businesses, […]
Cradlepoint expands 5G lineup with additional routers and modems
Cradlepoint, a global leader in cloud-delivered 4G and 5G wireless network edge solutions, announced some exciting additions to its 5G lineup this week at their 2021 Virtual Global Partner Summit. As they described, the launch “spans low-band to millimeter-wave solutions and external adapters to integrated 5G routers, all with a clean-slate design to support the […]
Remote Power Switch Product Overview
In an increasingly technology-driven world, there ultimately will be failures of that technology in one way or another. When talking about connectivity, specifically internet connectivity, there is a single simple troubleshooting step that resolves a majority of issues. What is that step? A reboot! Consider the last time you had to call your internet provider […]
