I've always only ever had prepaid cell phone plans, as I previously only used my phone when I really needed to check email or something (and otherwise kept mobile data turned off), and I've always lived in houses or apartments with high-speed internet. But now that I am going full-time in my truck camper, I want a real data plan. I decided on a Verizon "unlimited" phone plan and a separate Jetpack MiFi plan. The phone's data connection seems to work about the same in terms of coverage and signal strength as the old plan (Tracfone AT&T).
However, the Jetpack has blown me away. While I've been preparing to hit the road in my truck camper, I've been staying with relatives in New England. Most of my relatives live in rural areas. I never got mobile data at my aunt's house in southern NH, but they have good WiFi, so it wasn't a big deal. However, at my cousin's house in rural western Mass, they don't have high-speed internet, and I got zero phone, text, or data in their neighborhood with my old plan. With the Jetpack, I can watch 1080P video all night long without few hiccups.
In my research, I read that "unlimited" doesn't really mean that. As I have understood things, they let you surf/stream at the fastest speeds up to a certain point, and then they start throttling you down. I'm only a few days in, so that hasn't happened yet, but we'll see what happens. For now, though, I am loving the Jetpack.
However, the Jetpack has blown me away. While I've been preparing to hit the road in my truck camper, I've been staying with relatives in New England. Most of my relatives live in rural areas. I never got mobile data at my aunt's house in southern NH, but they have good WiFi, so it wasn't a big deal. However, at my cousin's house in rural western Mass, they don't have high-speed internet, and I got zero phone, text, or data in their neighborhood with my old plan. With the Jetpack, I can watch 1080P video all night long without few hiccups.
In my research, I read that "unlimited" doesn't really mean that. As I have understood things, they let you surf/stream at the fastest speeds up to a certain point, and then they start throttling you down. I'm only a few days in, so that hasn't happened yet, but we'll see what happens. For now, though, I am loving the Jetpack.