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Old 01-01-2013, 10:46 AM
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We've been Verizon Wireless Internet customers since 2003. The service included a variety of speeds as they became available. We have used the 4G broadband service for the past 16 months and we have been completely happy. Our cost is $50 a month for 5 gigs of service. If we go over, which we never have, there is an additional cost of $10/gig. We consider ourselves as heavy users, but we don't stream/download movies much. If I see my usage getting close to going over my limit, I switch to my Smart-phone as a hot-spot. I don't buy the hot-spot service. I don't come close to using my allotted data amount on the Smart-phone so I just use the FoxFi app to access that data for hot-spot use. It's free and it allows me to use data that's already paid for and never used up.

We travel the country in our motor home and I have almost always gotten service with the wireless hot-spot even when it's not suppose to be a Verizon Service area. If you are in an iffy area, just call Verizon and they'll really work with you. I've known them to actually tweak towers to improve signal for longer term usage.

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