Best Alternative to Millenicom

I dumped Millenicom before Verizon took over because I was able to get a cheaper data rate using just Verizon.

Note that I'm using 40GB and also have smartphones through Verizon.

I dumped Millenicom long ago as I did not come close to using 20GB/month. If you don't use enough data with their plan it was too expensive to make any sense. I generally used 10-12GB/month, many times less, and I could adjust my Verizon data plan to match my needs ever month.

For home use we switched this month to a T-1 line to our house as there is no cap. For travel we will be going on one of the Verizon family plans that includes 10GB of data as that is all we need.

Verizon still provides better national coverage than AT&T is not any worse than AT&T though that is not saying much at all. Both are notorious for over billing customers and for cramming.

I would wait for the dust to settle before doing anything. We did the move to T-1 to get around the Millenicom data cap as it restricted our use for streaming digital content.

The biggest difference between AT&T and Sprint and the Verizon service is not the coverage but what happens when you have to roam. AT&T and Sprint limit roaming data to about 300MB/month (you know, nothing!) and Verizon does not have any similar roaming limitation.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
The biggest difference between AT&T and Sprint and the Verizon service is not the coverage but what happens when you have to roam. AT&T and Sprint limit roaming data to about 300MB/month (you know, nothing!) and Verizon does not have any similar roaming limitation.

This is soooo true. See my "true life" experience posted earlier on this tread.

I'm the OP; thanks all. There is another thread that seems to have more responses. I'm still waiting to see if Verizon will offer me some kind of special deal as an old Millenicom customer. Will probably go with Verizon in the end. All these comments have really helped me.

I probably will just go with Verizon for both RV and home internet. I found there is a little UBS device I can plug in to my wife's desktop and it will pick up the Verizon hotspot for internet just like my laptop. In the past, I compared Suddenlink cable (which I now have) to the hotspot. The hotspot was faster, in spite of what Suddenlink says. We're out in the country and the much vaunted fast cable doesn't seem so fast out here.

Please read my last post on in the other thread.

Also, you can buy a Cradlepoint router and plug a cellular USB device into that and share the one card with multiple computers in your home or RV. The added benefit is that when you are in the RV, the Cradlepoint can also look for open wifi hotspots and you can maintain your one set of network configurations and use the wifi just as you did your cellular but saving tons of data along the way.