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Switch at&t hot spot to Verizon for our car?
Like title says, can We use Verizon service instead of at&t with our cars for hot spot provider ? I did the AT&T hot spot for last 4 weeks of new car, anyone able to swap it to their service? Or are our cars only able to use AT&T?
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I love having the hot spot in the car it's so easy, but I used 3 gigs in I guess 35 days and I believe it's $25 per 3 gigs if I renew after trial. My work pays for hot spot but I like the ease of it just being on in the car. Strange they lock it down to a specific carrier
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For non at&t customers it's $25/unlimited/month. Same throttling rules apply. I understand why BMW does this exclusive deal. Very likely at&t in exchange gives BMW free or super cheap data usage of at&t network for sending map updates, traffic data, etc. It's also likely at&t gives BMW kickbacks to offset the cost of the wifi Hotspot hardware. That said, at&t usually has the slowest LTE in my area. They're too busy marketing their 5Ge nonsense. Ho hum.
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When 5G goes mainstream it will be more expensive and you won't see unlimited data plans for quite some time. Additionally iPhones won't have a 5G modem until 2020 or 2021 - especially after the Qualcomm fallout. Personally I like AT&T better than Verizon. |
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3GPP created LTE Advanced in 2009 well before 5G was anything more than a buzzword. LTE-A includes MIMO, 4x4 carrier aggregation and 256 qam. Everything used by the majors today including at&t. Meanwhile try to find places where at&t will actually use 4x4 CA. Few! Nevertheless, it's a 4G technology. LTE Advanced Pro one can argue includes some 5G technologies. However at&t LTE network doesn't include Pro technologies. Nor do phone chipsets support the Pro features. At&t is the Mis-leader in wireless.
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