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Cost: $70 per month

Install: about 2 days Speeds are good

could be throttled

It beats our other rural options hands down

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Purchased the unlimited package (end of December 2016) that is supposed to be free data with any "app". This isn't entirely true. They will still throttle you if there is congestion after your 30gig limit. I was told they can not differentiate between data. A little false advertising, but it's t-mobile service...they all seem to be saying the same "unlimited" line.



I purchased the Cradlepoint MBR-1200B router with netgear 340u usb modem. I like cradlepoint equipment so this was easy. It's plug and play for the most part but, you will want to personalize some settings. Had some weird issues with first modem and router and had to send them back. The router was used. Seems to be all they provide. Next router and modem have been flawless.



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Purchased the unlimited package (end of December 2016) that is supposed to be free data with any "app". This isn't entirely true. They will still throttle you if there is congestion after your 30gig limit. I was told they can not differentiate between data. A little false advertising, but it's t-mobile service...they all seem to be saying the same "unlimited" line.I purchased the Cradlepoint MBR-1200B router with netgear 340u usb modem. I like cradlepoint equipment so this was easy. It's plug and play for the most part but, you will want to personalize some settings. Had some weird issues with first modem and router and had to send them back. The router was used. Seems to be all they provide. Next router and modem have been flawless. Review by krypt0 Location: Midwest



Cost: $20 per month

Install: about 2 days

Caps of 2 gigabytes/month Inexpensive, no contract

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T-Mobile service re-sold by Millenicom. No taxes, No contract. Straightforward data plan.

This is used in Audi MMI for data plan.



Data Limit (monthly in GB): 2

Provisioned Speed: N/A

Received Speed: N/A



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Stewartstown, PA 1 recommendation tim_k Premium Member they're back Looks like Millenicom is back. I will check them out some more, but the unlimited LTE for movie and music streaming is something I'd be interested in. saboken

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Johnstown, PA saboken Member Re: they're back I have the unlimited but be careful Amazon doesn't work right it eats up the wrong data see my post

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@as8218.us Anone69b7 Anon Millenicom so far,,, I am a former member of Millenicom and now that its back I am with them again. I bought the 6gig plan with unlimited movie streaming. I have had crazy low dl speed and really bad upload! I've written to them and also conference called them, tmobile was included on the call. No one could figure out the problems I've had. Sometimes the movie streaming is fine. I am going to try a new alcatel hotspot to see if it was my z915 zte that causes the problems. I have an omni directional antenna out on the roof, which seems

to help a little. I get supposedly 4g/lte and 4 bars. But you wouldnt think so by the way its performing! Speedtest says ping=56, DL=3.00, UL=0.05! A lot of times the DL is more like 1.76, but why is the upload so snailcrawling slow? I will request a new simcard also to see if that helps. I know they are fairly new at the service this past year but I would love to see other reviews from customers to see if its only me or not! If you live out in the country and have no other options, then I would recommend their service, maybe you will have better luck than I! saboken

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Johnstown, PA saboken Member Yes there back with issues but there back I was a Millenicom customer (Verizon) before up until Verizon pulled the plug or Millenicom did? The truth may never be known! I now am enjoying the Unlimited T-Mobile Video except for a few issues with Amazon Prime video it's suppose to be included in the unlimited but I burned up my data in one day with Amazon! Be careful I am not alone with this issue it happened with a roku that's supposed to be supported but it uses LTE data not Video data! Millenicom got my service going again after they contacted T-Mobile, I had been streaming Hulu, YouTube, HBO Go, FX,Crackle, Sling and others on the approved list without using the 6 gigs of data (I'M on the 6 gig plan ) , infact I used over 30 gigs total and only 2 gigs of non video until A Amazon Prime Trial (unless the prime trial is not treated like a paid one) who knows with The almighty Amazon! I just went fulltime in a RV and needed a reliable Internet for the road Satellite is out of the question been there done that never again!!!!! saboken saboken Member Re: Yes there back with issues but there back I figured some of it out!?!? Amazon is windows only? (Strange) I don't think Millenicom knows exactly how the Binge-On works yet they insisted roku's were ok but I have a feeling only if you are casting to it from. A mobile device directly connected to the Hotspot, this proved to be less than desirable for me so I got a Chromecast and it works a lot better I had to upload a couple of small photos to my Google photos account to have the chromecast show and turn off all other images to save the data bleeding of 10-20 megs a hour the default settings on the chromecast has, the is no way to completely turn off all background images it will just keep loading a couple HD photos if nothingis selected in the chromecast settings, I hope this works out? Time will tell so far the Millenicom site says I used over 30 gigs but is that binge on data? They can't seem to tell me they always say t-mobiles site is down. And not updating? Well see how long this lasts hopefully longer than with Verizon, I am seriously thinking of going straight to t-mobile to avoid any headache like last time I don't want to buy a Hotspot every few years from Millenicom when there contactfails again. I want to support the. UT I dont think they know what's really going on! your comment..











T-Mobile service re-sold by Millenicom. No taxes, No contract. Straightforward data plan.This is used in Audi MMI for data plan.Data Limit (monthly in GB): 2Provisioned Speed: N/AReceived Speed: N/A Review by Mr Matt Location: Eustis, Lake, FL, USA



Cost Contract price not specified. Verizon forced Millenicom to cease operations.

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Millenicom now out of business. Review by ggultra2764 Location: Cambridge, Washington, NY, USA



Cost: $90 per month

Install: about 999 days No contract, get connection speeds on par with VZW connection.

Monthly price is a little steep, 20 GB is a little low for needs of my family, Millenicom being at Verizon's mercy.

R.I.P Millenicom- It's been a fun ride. A shame the carriers you got service from kept screwing you over.

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I've seen enough positive feedback regarding Millenicom since I first heard about the service back in 2009. $60 for unlimited data usage at that time seemed like a great offer compared to the measly 5 GB Verizon was serving up for me. But by the time I was on VZW for over 2 years and I could choose to jump ship without getting an ETF, Millenicom had restricted its unlimited plan to Sprint towers and the best I could get was 5 or 10 GB data plans. This wouldn't work for me as I normally use somewhere between 10 and 15 GB a month on my Verizon connection which I get throttled for monthly. Thankfully, I first agreed to the Verizon contract back in December 2007 meaning a grandfather clause kept me from dealing with the overage fees Verizon began to hammer on their new customers in March 2008. though I still had to deal with throttling.



It wasn't until just recently I heard that Millenicom bumped up their Advanced data plan cap to 20 GB that I finally decided to jump on the chance to get their service and take advantage of their January offer where I could get the modem for free and only deal with activation and shipping fees, plus monthly payment. The online order I did went smoothly and I was able to get it four days after making my order. The modem's no where as bulky as my old Sierrra Wireless 595U Aircard I had from VZW, though still wide enough where I had to get enough space for it to fit on one of my laptop's USB ports. I did follow the instructions provided to me with the modem to install the access manager, though I did get a little confused when the installation program was nagging me for a file it needed to continue running.



So far on my first day, connection's been running smoothly as I am getting speeds about on par with my VZW connection which shouldn't be of much surprise for me considering Millenicom gets connections via Sprint and Verizon's towers. I'm glad to finally get something more reasonable from Millenicom.



UPDATE (2/2/2011): Switched out the access manager coming with the modem for the one from Verizon. Had no way to know how much data I'm using per month with the other one thus the switch. So far, I'm still retaining a good connection with the modem. The bandwidth fluctuated for a bit today, but I imagine it was only something up with the tower nearby since I was hammered by a snow storm. Latest speed test results I took via Speedtest.net are 1.13 Mbps for download and 0.39 Mbps for upload with 139 ms for latency.



UPDATE (6/21/2011): Approaching the five month mark since hopping over to Millenicom. Connection's still holding up well for me for the most part with the occasional drop to 1XRTT speeds which is mostly the fault of my nearby tower. Latest speed test results I took via Speedtest.net are 1.18 Mbps for download and 0.49 Mbps for upload with 210 ms for latency.



UPDATE (1/22/2012): Been on Millenicom for nearly a year. Like many folks, I was a victim of the frequent fluctuating data speeds that hit Millenicom users from a couple months ago to the point where I was barely getting 300-400 kbps in data speed at points. The problem has been gone for about a month now and I've noticed a great amount of improvement in my data speeds as of late meaning either my nearby tower must have been upgraded or less people in my area are using the tower for 3G data coverage from Verizon. As of this update for my speed test, I clocked in at 1.76 Mbps for download speed and 0.51 Mbps for upload speed.



UPDATE (4/1/2013): Now been a Millenicom customer for over two years now. Recently decided to switch over to the 3G/ 4G Hotspot plan since my mother was in need of a new Internet connection since the Sierra Wireless 595U aircard she's had from Verizon Wireless for over 5 years now has started to break apart on her and figured I'd get it since Verizon's nearing completion on covering their network with LTE and I still only get EVDO/ 1XRTT speeds out here. Since my mother's desktop computer lacked the ability to connect to wireless on its own, I also winded up buying a Wi-Fi adapter off Millenicom so she would be capable of connecting to the hotspot



I'll admit my experiences with it were tricky for the first couple weeks I had it due to this being my first-time effort with personally playing administrator with the hotspot and knowing the ins and outs of working with it. My main snag was since I had the hotspot upstairs in my second-floor bedroom, my mother could barely get a workable connection for it from her downstairs computer and the hotspot was only covering the upstairs of our house with effective coverage. So I had to wind up buying a range extender to increase the effective range of the hotspot (know routers would be more potent with coverage and range, but the extender wasn't so costly) and have my mother's computer connect to the extender instead of the hotspot to get her a workable connection.



Knowing how to work the hotspot now and having two floors of our house covered in wireless with both hotspot and extender, the hotspot's been working really well. Though I only get EVDO on it right now, I still get a great connection with it with both my laptop and mother's computers connected and the latency is a great improvement over my old USB 760 modem I had from my old 3G Advanced plan, with some instances where I get latency below 100 ms. In the latest speed test I did with the hotspot via my laptop, I got 1.15 Mbps for down speed and 0.61 Mbps for up speed with a latency of 125 ms.



UPDATE (4/20/2014)- Now been on Millenicom for over 3 years now. Up to this point, I had been using both my hotspot and reactivated 3G advanced plans for data services from them and I've had LTE coverage out here for the hotspot since June of last year. But with news of monthly rates going up for both devices and a hard cap being enforced on them starting in May, I'm planning to kill my 3G Advanced plan to cut on costs for the bill as I can't afford being hit up for $180 a month for two devices, especially when one of them is for a grandfathered plan Millenicom no longer offers. $90 a month for 20 GB of data use is still cheaper than what you would get hit up on a contract from Verizon for. But I'm now gonna have to look into getting a cheaper means of data to use as a backup option and that's likely gonna come from my prepaid AT&T cell phone plan I'm on, because I'm not coughing up an extra $90 to Millenicom for data I'm not gonna use the full amount of each month.



UPDATE (5/17/2014)- Now have a new issue with Millenicom in the form of their data usage information not always being current. If they're enforcing a hard cap now, would be nice if the data usage information was updated more frequently so I know how close me and my family are getting to their 20 GB cap. It's gotten bad enough where I've had to more frequently rely on Verizon Wireless' site to get that information, despite the fact I get the impression the information may not be accurate since Millenicom's records for a day when they update have it as being different (12.5 GB from Millenicom as of Thursday when I contacted them vs Verizon having me close to 13 GB).



I upgraded my prepaid cell phone with AT&T to give me 2.5 GB of data with tethering/ hotspot functionality to use as my backup for data use. Will see how it gets me through the rest of this month. Suffice to say with my complaints that I have over Millenicom being at Verizon's mercy, this is regrettably the best option I can get out here for Internet in terms of price and data use.



UPDATE (8/2/14)- After getting complaints from family over having to cut data speed or connections over the past few months to conserve on usage due to Millenicom's new rules and price hike, I've been forced to have to cave into paying for 20 GB of additional data effective this month in the event we get close to the regular data cap. This is regrettably gonna be adding more to what I pay each month for wireless technology from $150-$180 each month to now possibly $225. I really hope either I get something better for Internet from a regional provider sometime soon or Millenicom's able to work something out with Verizon so I'm not paying a freakin' arm and a leg each month just to get Internet out where I am.



UPDATE (10/24/14)- Well after three years of being a Millenicom customer, I've winded up having to jump back over to Verizon Wireless thanks to our Millenicom accounts being taken over by Verizon. Since VZW hadn't been in touch with me over any offers they would extend to me for a wireless plan over the past week, I decided to jump over on VZW using my hotspot at a retail store just this morning. It appears I didn't need a phone at all to take advantage of VZW's "double data" offer as I've locked in on getting 40 GB off them for $130/ month before taxes kick in. I'm not in a contract, so hoping to ride things out until a regional provider can build out coverage my way for me to get service off them. Been a fun ride the past three and a half years off Millenicom as I enjoyed the lower cost I got to pay for more data before Verizon ruined things. A shame it had to end this way.



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Nashville, TN compuguybna Member VZAM Go to the VERIZON site, and download the latest version of the Verizon Access Manager.



It's alot better interface that MC's generic software (although its still made by Smith Micro)

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Tucson, AZ ebb0ts Premium Member Millenicom Thanks for the ride. hope you folks all do well. your comment..

I've seen enough positive feedback regarding Millenicom since I first heard about the service back in 2009. $60 for unlimited data usage at that time seemed like a great offer compared to the measly 5 GB Verizon was serving up for me. But by the time I was on VZW for over 2 years and I could choose to jump ship without getting an ETF, Millenicom had restricted its unlimited plan to Sprint towers and the best I could get was 5 or 10 GB data plans. This wouldn't work for me as I normally use somewhere between 10 and 15 GB a month on my Verizon connection which I get throttled for monthly. Thankfully, I first agreed to the Verizon contract back in December 2007 meaning a grandfather clause kept me from dealing with the overage fees Verizon began to hammer on their new customers in March 2008. though I still had to deal with throttling.It wasn't until just recently I heard that Millenicom bumped up their Advanced data plan cap to 20 GB that I finally decided to jump on the chance to get their service and take advantage of their January offer where I could get the modem for free and only deal with activation and shipping fees, plus monthly payment. The online order I did went smoothly and I was able to get it four days after making my order. The modem's no where as bulky as my old Sierrra Wireless 595U Aircard I had from VZW, though still wide enough where I had to get enough space for it to fit on one of my laptop's USB ports. I did follow the instructions provided to me with the modem to install the access manager, though I did get a little confused when the installation program was nagging me for a file it needed to continue running.So far on my first day, connection's been running smoothly as I am getting speeds about on par with my VZW connection which shouldn't be of much surprise for me considering Millenicom gets connections via Sprint and Verizon's towers. I'm glad to finally get something more reasonable from Millenicom.UPDATE (2/2/2011): Switched out the access manager coming with the modem for the one from Verizon. Had no way to know how much data I'm using per month with the other one thus the switch. So far, I'm still retaining a good connection with the modem. The bandwidth fluctuated for a bit today, but I imagine it was only something up with the tower nearby since I was hammered by a snow storm. Latest speed test results I took via Speedtest.net are 1.13 Mbps for download and 0.39 Mbps for upload with 139 ms for latency.UPDATE (6/21/2011): Approaching the five month mark since hopping over to Millenicom. Connection's still holding up well for me for the most part with the occasional drop to 1XRTT speeds which is mostly the fault of my nearby tower. Latest speed test results I took via Speedtest.net are 1.18 Mbps for download and 0.49 Mbps for upload with 210 ms for latency.UPDATE (1/22/2012): Been on Millenicom for nearly a year. Like many folks, I was a victim of the frequent fluctuating data speeds that hit Millenicom users from a couple months ago to the point where I was barely getting 300-400 kbps in data speed at points. The problem has been gone for about a month now and I've noticed a great amount of improvement in my data speeds as of late meaning either my nearby tower must have been upgraded or less people in my area are using the tower for 3G data coverage from Verizon. As of this update for my speed test, I clocked in at 1.76 Mbps for download speed and 0.51 Mbps for upload speed.UPDATE (4/1/2013): Now been a Millenicom customer for over two years now. Recently decided to switch over to the 3G/ 4G Hotspot plan since my mother was in need of a new Internet connection since the Sierra Wireless 595U aircard she's had from Verizon Wireless for over 5 years now has started to break apart on her and figured I'd get it since Verizon's nearing completion on covering their network with LTE and I still only get EVDO/ 1XRTT speeds out here. Since my mother's desktop computer lacked the ability to connect to wireless on its own, I also winded up buying a Wi-Fi adapter off Millenicom so she would be capable of connecting to the hotspotI'll admit my experiences with it were tricky for the first couple weeks I had it due to this being my first-time effort with personally playing administrator with the hotspot and knowing the ins and outs of working with it. My main snag was since I had the hotspot upstairs in my second-floor bedroom, my mother could barely get a workable connection for it from her downstairs computer and the hotspot was only covering the upstairs of our house with effective coverage. So I had to wind up buying a range extender to increase the effective range of the hotspot (know routers would be more potent with coverage and range, but the extender wasn't so costly) and have my mother's computer connect to the extender instead of the hotspot to get her a workable connection.Knowing how to work the hotspot now and having two floors of our house covered in wireless with both hotspot and extender, the hotspot's been working really well. Though I only get EVDO on it right now, I still get a great connection with it with both my laptop and mother's computers connected and the latency is a great improvement over my old USB 760 modem I had from my old 3G Advanced plan, with some instances where I get latency below 100 ms. In the latest speed test I did with the hotspot via my laptop, I got 1.15 Mbps for down speed and 0.61 Mbps for up speed with a latency of 125 ms.UPDATE (4/20/2014)- Now been on Millenicom for over 3 years now. Up to this point, I had been using both my hotspot and reactivated 3G advanced plans for data services from them and I've had LTE coverage out here for the hotspot since June of last year. But with news of monthly rates going up for both devices and a hard cap being enforced on them starting in May, I'm planning to kill my 3G Advanced plan to cut on costs for the bill as I can't afford being hit up for $180 a month for two devices, especially when one of them is for a grandfathered plan Millenicom no longer offers. $90 a month for 20 GB of data use is still cheaper than what you would get hit up on a contract from Verizon for. But I'm now gonna have to look into getting a cheaper means of data to use as a backup option and that's likely gonna come from my prepaid AT&T cell phone plan I'm on, because I'm not coughing up an extra $90 to Millenicom for data I'm not gonna use the full amount of each month.UPDATE (5/17/2014)- Now have a new issue with Millenicom in the form of their data usage information not always being current. If they're enforcing a hard cap now, would be nice if the data usage information was updated more frequently so I know how close me and my family are getting to their 20 GB cap. It's gotten bad enough where I've had to more frequently rely on Verizon Wireless' site to get that information, despite the fact I get the impression the information may not be accurate since Millenicom's records for a day when they update have it as being different (12.5 GB from Millenicom as of Thursday when I contacted them vs Verizon having me close to 13 GB).I upgraded my prepaid cell phone with AT&T to give me 2.5 GB of data with tethering/ hotspot functionality to use as my backup for data use. Will see how it gets me through the rest of this month. Suffice to say with my complaints that I have over Millenicom being at Verizon's mercy, this is regrettably the best option I can get out here for Internet in terms of price and data use.UPDATE (8/2/14)- After getting complaints from family over having to cut data speed or connections over the past few months to conserve on usage due to Millenicom's new rules and price hike, I've been forced to have to cave into paying for 20 GB of additional data effective this month in the event we get close to the regular data cap. This is regrettably gonna be adding more to what I pay each month for wireless technology from $150-$180 each month to now possibly $225. I really hope either I get something better for Internet from a regional provider sometime soon or Millenicom's able to work something out with Verizon so I'm not paying a freakin' arm and a leg each month just to get Internet out where I am.UPDATE (10/24/14)- Well after three years of being a Millenicom customer, I've winded up having to jump back over to Verizon Wireless thanks to our Millenicom accounts being taken over by Verizon. Since VZW hadn't been in touch with me over any offers they would extend to me for a wireless plan over the past week, I decided to jump over on VZW using my hotspot at a retail store just this morning. It appears I didn't need a phone at all to take advantage of VZW's "double data" offer as I've locked in on getting 40 GB off them for $130/ month before taxes kick in. I'm not in a contract, so hoping to ride things out until a regional provider can build out coverage my way for me to get service off them. Been a fun ride the past three and a half years off Millenicom as I enjoyed the lower cost I got to pay for more data before Verizon ruined things. A shame it had to end this way. Review by LeighS Location: Salem, Lee, AL, USA



Cost: $90 per month

Install: about 3 days No Contract, Helpful Customer Service

Capped with no pro-rating; only one package available

Still a good deal. Good speed. Reliable as VZ will let them be. I'm happy.



We've been using Millenicom for just over a year now. All in all we are happy with the service.



The price increase was a little steep with no increase in monthly allotment.



Our only real complaint is that there is no pro-rating if you reach the cap before the end of the month and there is no roll over. We could deal with the no pro-rating, but no roll over is a bit much if you are only 3-4 days from the end of the month.



We live very rurally , and on the back side of the hills from most towers, and VZ towers are the only ones that reach us. (We have this issue with cells as well). We don't watch TV, have cable or satellite, so the internet is our only real source for news. We literally ration our daily usage.



We know they are at VZ mercy, but pro-rating or multiple package options would be great.



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We've been using Millenicom for just over a year now. All in all we are happy with the service.The price increase was a little steep with no increase in monthly allotment.Our only real complaint is that there is no pro-rating if you reach the cap before the end of the month and there is no roll over. We could deal with the no pro-rating, but no roll over is a bit much if you are only 3-4 days from the end of the month.We live very rurally , and on the back side of the hills from most towers, and VZ towers are the only ones that reach us. (We have this issue with cells as well). We don't watch TV, have cable or satellite, so the internet is our only real source for news. We literally ration our daily usage.We know they are at VZ mercy, but pro-rating or multiple package options would be great. Review by David_K Location: Athens, Marathon, WI, USA



Cost: $90 per month Speed, Mobility, Startup Cost, PAYG, Low Latency

Price, Connection Blackouts, Throttling, Company future hazy, rigid data allotments.

A better alternative to Satilite and POTS internet connections

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Living in a rural area is a pain when it comes to getting decent internet, I was on ~20kbps dial-up for 2 years before biting the bullet and ordering from Millenicom after finding them on Wikipedia. Start up cost is reasonable, mine was under $150, my mifi hotspot arrived in a timely manner and I was online within minutes of opening the package. I'm lucky enough to have a 4G tower around 4 miles from my house and so far the mifi has got at least a 2 in all exterior-wall rooms. Most times I get 3-4 bars, all without any antenna or amplifier of any sort.



Latency is very low as well, never exceeding 250ms and most of the time well under 100ms, it beats both satellite and dial up in this aspect. Mobility is a factor, if you aren't a heavy internet user and are quite the road warrior Millenicom's service will suit you well. Personally, I leave it tethered to my desktop 99% of the time and am happy with how I can easily set it and forget about it. On average I have to restart it once every few days after it starts acting up. The service is prepaid in monthly intervals and you can cancel at any time or put your account on a 'vacation mode' of sorts for 3 month at low cost to forfeit a reactivation fee.



I have noted on several occasions I'm bumped down to 3G for several hours before 4G is back up, it's hardly worth mentioning unless you need a 24/7 4G connection. Recently I had to contact Millenicom support regarding end of month throttling of my account at ~10GB of monthly usage. The tech I spoke with was accommodating and knowledgeable and assured me I should be getting much faster speeds, promising to escalate the matter with their main office. Full speed wasn't restored until 3 days after when my billing cycle entered the new month leaving me to believe the problem was with Verizon and that Millenicom did nothing to get my SIM un-throttled. I lost out on at LEAST 5GB of data that I prepaid for that month which is valued at around $25, if this turns out to be a continuing trend I'll downgrade to a $60 plan direct from Verizon for 10GB as I'm adverse to paying for data I am prevented from using.



Since Millenicom resells Verizon's data you are putting yourself at the mercy of Verizon because they can push anything down the pipes they want and without a contract you could find yourself without internet in a month's time if Millenicom is forced to discontinue carrying the service. We have already seen this happen once earlier this year when Verizon forced Millenicom to raise plan price. Also, at the moment it seems Verizon won't allow Millenicom to offer any data packages besides the 20GB capped data package.



>>> Some prospective for first time users moving from an uncapped broadband connection:



Don't expect to watch ANY videos online or download any AAA game titles with this service, 20 GB isn't much when it comes to multimedia and you'll easily blow through your cap with a couple big games or a dozen hours of video (depending on stream quality) but for everyday browsing or mulitplayer games it's fine and blows dial up out of the water. I encourage you to install software on your main use PC to measure and keep track of your usage as Millenicom's data usage reports only come out about once every 4 days.







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Living in a rural area is a pain when it comes to getting decent internet, I was on ~20kbps dial-up for 2 years before biting the bullet and ordering from Millenicom after finding them on Wikipedia. Start up cost is reasonable, mine was under $150, my mifi hotspot arrived in a timely manner and I was online within minutes of opening the package. I'm lucky enough to have a 4G tower around 4 miles from my house and so far the mifi has got at least a 2 in all exterior-wall rooms. Most times I get 3-4 bars, all without any antenna or amplifier of any sort.Latency is very low as well, never exceeding 250ms and most of the time well under 100ms, it beats both satellite and dial up in this aspect. Mobility is a factor, if you aren't a heavy internet user and are quite the road warrior Millenicom's service will suit you well. Personally, I leave it tethered to my desktop 99% of the time and am happy with how I can easily set it and forget about it. On average I have to restart it once every few days after it starts acting up. The service is prepaid in monthly intervals and you can cancel at any time or put your account on a 'vacation mode' of sorts for 3 month at low cost to forfeit a reactivation fee.I have noted on several occasions I'm bumped down to 3G for several hours before 4G is back up, it's hardly worth mentioning unless you need a 24/7 4G connection. Recently I had to contact Millenicom support regarding end of month throttling of my account at ~10GB of monthly usage. The tech I spoke with was accommodating and knowledgeable and assured me I should be getting much faster speeds, promising to escalate the matter with their main office. Full speed wasn't restored until 3 days after when my billing cycle entered the new month leaving me to believe the problem was with Verizon and that Millenicom did nothing to get my SIM un-throttled. I lost out on at LEAST 5GB of data that I prepaid for that month which is valued at around $25, if this turns out to be a continuing trend I'll downgrade to a $60 plan direct from Verizon for 10GB as I'm adverse to paying for data I am prevented from using.Since Millenicom resells Verizon's data you are putting yourself at the mercy of Verizon because they can push anything down the pipes they want and without a contract you could find yourself without internet in a month's time if Millenicom is forced to discontinue carrying the service. We have already seen this happen once earlier this year when Verizon forced Millenicom to raise plan price. Also, at the moment it seems Verizon won't allow Millenicom to offer any data packages besides the 20GB capped data package.>>> Some prospective for first time users moving from an uncapped broadband connection:Don't expect to watch ANY videos online or download any AAA game titles with this service, 20 GB isn't much when it comes to multimedia and you'll easily blow through your cap with a couple big games or a dozen hours of video (depending on stream quality) but for everyday browsing or mulitplayer games it's fine and blows dial up out of the water. I encourage you to install software on your main use PC to measure and keep track of your usage as Millenicom's data usage reports only come out about once every 4 days. Review by compuguybna Location: Nashville, Davidson, TN, USA



Cost: $59 per month

Install: about 3 days No contract

Congested Towers on Verizon, Poor 3rd party tech support

No Contract, Mobility, Tech support doesn't always follow up

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UPDATE 5: August 25, 2010. Started to receive "Authentication Errors".."Remote Computer not responding" and "password/username/authentication issue".....Tech support was stumped by this. Got slapped on the wrist by Millenicom

for contacting Verizon directly after Michelle at MC tech support didn't follow up on problem.

Cable High Speed internet is coming Sept 12

from Charter.



UPDATE 4: August 3, 2010. I have to give tech support a notch down. Millenicom's third party tech support has the knowledge to troubleshoot......but.....they need improvement in followup.

The last support call identified themselves as "Innovative Support Solutions" (Michelle)

sometimes there seems to be a lack of communication between them

and Verizon....

I also got a snoddy call from Dennis Castle the day after I called Verizon myself about the issue. NEVER CALL VERIZON DIRECTLY they

said.





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j43w1

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Fultonville, NY j43w1 Member Speeds compuguybna , I too switched from wildblue to Millenicom! Best move I have made. Some times the speeds slow down and I would think it's due to tower conjestion at 6:00pm to about 11:00pm. All in All, it's a good service. decifal

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Bon Aqua, TN decifal Member charter Charter actually built out their network? How are you liking it? compared to the wireless

compuguybna

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Nashville, TN compuguybna Member Re: charter



We were actually extended out of Columbia.



DOCSIS 3.0 too!







:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 25689 Kbps about 25.7 Mbps (tested with 12 MB)

Download Speed is:: 3136 kB/s or 3.1 MB/s

Tested From:: »

Test Time:: 2010-11-07 15:44:46 GMT -7

Bottom Line:: 448X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.33 sec

Tested from a 12 MB file and took 3.916 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Running at 350% of hosts average (Charter.com)

D-Validation Link:: »

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0) [!] I'll let the results speak for themselves!We were actually extended out of Columbia.DOCSIS 3.0 too!:::.. Download Stats ..:::Download Connection is::(tested with 12 MB)Download Speed is:: 3136 kB/s or 3.1 MB/sTested From:: » testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA)Test Time:: 2010-11-07 15:44:46 GMT -7Bottom Line:: 448X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.33 secTested from a 12 MB file and took 3.916 seconds to completeDownload Diagnosis:: Running at 350% of hosts average (Charter.com)D-Validation Link:: » testmy.net/db/YNTS8HPFL User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0) [!] decifal

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Bon Aqua, TN decifal Member Re: charter Why oh why can't they come to my area in dickson,TN? Lol, i'd kill for something besides isdn dialup, or shady overpriced 3g service!!...

compuguybna

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Nashville, TN compuguybna Member Re: charter I think we're feeding outta Knoxville. It runs towards middle TN, down thru Shelbyville, Lewisburg, Columbia, Lawrenceburg. your comment..

UPDATE 5: August 25, 2010. Started to receive "Authentication Errors".."Remote Computer not responding" and "password/username/authentication issue".....Tech support was stumped by this. Got slapped on the wrist by Millenicomfor contacting Verizon directly after Michelle at MC tech support didn't follow up on problem.Cable High Speed internet is coming Sept 12from Charter.UPDATE 4: August 3, 2010. I have to give tech support a notch down. Millenicom's third party tech support has the knowledge to troubleshoot......but.....they need improvement in followup.The last support call identified themselves as "Innovative Support Solutions" (Michelle)sometimes there seems to be a lack of communication between themand Verizon....I also got a snoddy call from Dennis Castle the day after I called Verizon myself about the issue. NEVER CALL VERIZON DIRECTLY theysaid. Review by Jack_in_VA Location: North, Mathews, VA, USA



Cost: $69 per month

Caps of 20 gigabytes/month I have had few problems with the Hotspot plan

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Received the Verizon Hotspot Novatel 4620 LE device and immediately got online. This was to replace the 4G service from Sprint through Millenicom that was suddenly terminated by Sprint. I'm much happier with the Verizon LTE service.



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compuguybna

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Nashville, TN compuguybna Member price increase? Going to $89?

Jack_in_VA

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North, VA Jack_in_VA Premium Member Going to $89 Yes price increase effective 5/1/2014 your comment..











Received the Verizon Hotspot Novatel 4620 LE device and immediately got online. This was to replace the 4G service from Sprint through Millenicom that was suddenly terminated by Sprint. I'm much happier with the Verizon LTE service. Review by OmegaWolf747 Location: Royal Oak, Oakland, MI, USA



Cost: $70 per month

Install: about 20 days

Caps of 20 gigabytes/month No contracts, pretty reasonable prices

Are at the mercy of upstream ISPs and sometimes must change the rules

Not ideal, but if you can't afford cable, it's better than dialup

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I've been using Millenicom since May 2009. I started out on their Verizon service with the Pantech U175 modem for $59.99/month. It was pretty fast, although there were frequent disconnects. I liked it well enough until Verizon got stingy and ordered Millenicom to enforce first a ten, then 5 GB cap on our bandwidth usage.



Now I'm using their new unlimited $69.99/month service, which connects to Verizon Wireless via the Jetpack Mifi 4620LE. It's much faster than the old 3G one I was using. The only downside is a 20 GB monthly cap that's all too easy to bump up against.



Since the recent firmware update, I'm unable to login to the device settings webpage. :-(



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I've been using Millenicom since May 2009. I started out on their Verizon service with the Pantech U175 modem for $59.99/month. It was pretty fast, although there were frequent disconnects. I liked it well enough until Verizon got stingy and ordered Millenicom to enforce first a ten, then 5 GB cap on our bandwidth usage.Now I'm using their new unlimited $69.99/month service, which connects to Verizon Wireless via the Jetpack Mifi 4620LE. It's much faster than the old 3G one I was using. The only downside is a 20 GB monthly cap that's all too easy to bump up against.Since the recent firmware update, I'm unable to login to the device settings webpage. :-( Review by IowaMudRider Location: Montrose, Lee, IA, USA



Cost: $69 per month Speeds, Gaming works good

signal needs improvement to unleash full potential, 20GB cap

If you are a wireless tech geek and have no other options except satellite go for it!

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Wireless is by nature a shared resource. Most people plug in the modem and just expect it to work. sure if you get lucky that will probably do, but for people like me who are 4miles from the the tower through some heavy trees, it takes a little more thought to get things going. also being a shared resource your speeds on wireless will never be consistent its just the nature of the beast. i can get 2mbps down one second and the next second it could be running at dialup it just depends on what others are doing on the tower. the equipment i use is a Cradlepoint Mbr 95 with a Franklin u770 modem (apparlently i got the last 69.99 plan with the u770) and it did take many hours of tweaking to finally get them to cooperate and work with all my wireless devices, and i consider myself excellent with technology so it may be confusing for the end user, luckily sites like this are here to help those who seek help. gaming online with 3g isnt exactly the best but it will work, and if you use steam which is known to force 2gb+ updates before you can play games, the 50gb cap is a no brainer. overall very satisfied with the service and cant wait to see what sprints lte will be like when it comes to my area!



Update 10/19/13, well that didnt last long! millenicom lost their deal with sprint, HOWEVER they are providing me with a Free verizon mifi hotspot with a 20gb data limit we will see how that works out! its nice to see a company that looks out for their new customers!



Update 10/28/13 - well turns out Millenicom was able to keep their deal with sprint so i am able to keep my 50gb plan instead of switching to a 20gb hotspot very happy with that!



Update 10/30/13 ..... okay im not trying to spam... well turns out that sprint has reversed their reversed decision to keep millenicom and are instead cutting off accounts starting tomorrow? wow....now i will have to go with the hotspot plan or a different provider



within the next couple of days. if anything it is not millenicoms fault and more sprints fault and im very upset at sprint and not at millenicom really.



Update 11/14/13 - i have been rocking along with millenicoms new hotspot... i am in a no service area and i get 2 bars of LTE (-109 Rssi and snr 4 for you nerds) and the speeds are AWESOME here is a normal speedtest result i get...



»www.speedtest.net/my-res ··· 96921404



The connection so far has been ROCK SOLID i played Payday 2 on my pc online ALL DAY without so much as a hiccup.. and the bandwidth used was just 200mb~ for that entire session.



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pizzaman1

join:2005-09-07

San Francisco, CA pizzaman1 Member Another provider I think cyberonic offers similar plans your comment..

Wireless is by nature a shared resource. Most people plug in the modem and just expect it to work. sure if you get lucky that will probably do, but for people like me who are 4miles from the the tower through some heavy trees, it takes a little more thought to get things going. also being a shared resource your speeds on wireless will never be consistent its just the nature of the beast. i can get 2mbps down one second and the next second it could be running at dialup it just depends on what others are doing on the tower. the equipment i use is a Cradlepoint Mbr 95 with a Franklin u770 modem (apparlently i got the last 69.99 plan with the u770) and it did take many hours of tweaking to finally get them to cooperate and work with all my wireless devices, and i consider myself excellent with technology so it may be confusing for the end user, luckily sites like this are here to help those who seek help. gaming online with 3g isnt exactly the best but it will work, and if you use steam which is known to force 2gb+ updates before you can play games, the 50gb cap is a no brainer. overall very satisfied with the service and cant wait to see what sprints lte will be like when it comes to my area!Update 10/19/13, well that didnt last long! millenicom lost their deal with sprint, HOWEVER they are providing me with a Free verizon mifi hotspot with a 20gb data limit we will see how that works out! its nice to see a company that looks out for their new customers!Update 10/28/13 - well turns out Millenicom was able to keep their deal with sprint so i am able to keep my 50gb plan instead of switching to a 20gb hotspot very happy with that!Update 10/30/13 ..... okay im not trying to spam... well turns out that sprint has reversed their reversed decision to keep millenicom and are instead cutting off accounts starting tomorrow? wow....now i will have to go with the hotspot plan or a different providerwithin the next couple of days. if anything it is not millenicoms fault and more sprints fault and im very upset at sprint and not at millenicom really.Update 11/14/13 - i have been rocking along with millenicoms new hotspot... i am in a no service area and i get 2 bars of LTE (-109 Rssi and snr 4 for you nerds) and the speeds are AWESOME here is a normal speedtest result i get...The connection so far has been ROCK SOLID i played Payday 2 on my pc online ALL DAY without so much as a hiccup.. and the bandwidth used was just 200mb~ for that entire session.