Verizon LTE Home Internet

[Oaktree]

Verizon's definition of "unlimited" is hazy. What good is unlimited data when it's controlled by limited speed? :confused2: I checked their coverage map for "rural home LTE" and of course "Not available in our area".

Verizon Launches Unlimited 4G Home Internet for Rural Users: Here Are the Maps | PCMag

Note: "You need to buy a $240 router."

Wow, some really odd coverage. Big sections of Maine that are podunk have coverage, yet none of Vt. and only parts of extreme southern N.H. have it. And Verizon probably the leading cell provider here in northern New England.
BTW, what is LTE and why is it only associated with 4G? Is there such a thing as non-LTE 4G? Seems to be one of those catch terms that gets thrown around like it's something special, but they don't tell you what it means.

After 5g hits watch the Dish and Direct TV satellite dishes come tumbling down.

I'm gonna guess that 5G in rural America (where most of those satellite TV dishes are) is quite a ways off, and maybe never in some places. From what I understand it has considerably less range than 4G (LTE or not), and likely doesn't work well in hilly/mountainous terrain.

 

[riptides]

There is something very fishy with Verizon coverage for this service.

I have LTE through a mobile virtual network operator. $$$$$.

Verizon is not offering this new service through Verizon directly. Why not? I suspect they will piss off a lot of their resellers.

It is a bunch of bean counter crap.

Cannot wait until another competitor shows up.

I got Verizon's new LTE Home Internet and installed it today. So far, so good. Cost is $40 per month for existing Verizon customers and their router costs $240. Speeds on day 1 have been 25-30 Mbps. Data is unlimited. Setup was easy.

I've been using Ubifi for my internet for about 2 years with download speeds averaging 20-25Mbps. Cost is $89.99/month and $315 for the MoFi router (new customers are now being charged $99.99). I'll be cancelling the Ubifi service.

I believe Verizon is only offering the service to those who can't get their FiOS and have a good 4G signal.

 

[Mat4644]

I'm on the T-Mobile Sprint $50 plan

 

[kcflhrc]

I'm on the T-Mobile Sprint $50 plan

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That's a good deal. I had no idea T-Mobile offered an option. If my Mobley plan ever expires I will look into that

 

[skipmarcy]

When I wanted to get the Verizon 4G LTE they also told me it wouldn't work in my area but I bought it anyway and have been using it just fine now for 8 years - am on it right now. I live in a metal sided and roofed house and keep the little accessory antenna in a window in the office here. I move it out to our concrete underground storm room to keep up on the radar during severe weather and it works fine. My plan is $10 a gig and I think I paid $50 for the jetpack. Have replaced 1 battery in it in the 8 years I've had it. Our electric co-op is in the process of installing fiber and I MIGHT get on it when it's available but with their track record on keeping the power on during bad weather I'm not confident with it. We've never had the tower that services us go out in the 8 years so far ...

 

[Rustyiron]

This isn't exactly on topic, but may apply to some of you.
I called our local internet/cable carriers (spectrum-iirc formally comcast) "business service" office and explained my situation and understood that it involved a "line extension" and that I was only looking for internet. They explained that for business service that they provided a $8000 credit towards construction costs.
They sent out a guy to survey the situation and to build the extension it would be $9450 and I paid the $1450 difference. I told him instantly "do it". The line is built (5 pole sections on the road and 9 sections on my land to our building) and we're waiting for a different guy to run the last 300' (through a spare conduit I installed when building) to the shop-house. Hopefully that should happen in the next few weeks.
I can't wait to make that call to bluesnet:laughing: and use that dish for target practice.
This was close to a mile long and I guess I'm lucky in that respect. But in all of my other attempts over the past 10 years to investigate the costs or possibility of service, the simple answer was a very short "we don't offer service to that address" but that was calling the typical residential catv service people, ie; phone bank.

 

[rekees4300]

BTW, what is LTE and why is it only associated with 4G? Is there such a thing as non-LTE 4G? Seems to be one of those catch terms that gets thrown around like it's something special, but they don't tell you what it means.

LTE stands for Long Term Evolution. That synonym has been around for 15 years when 4G replaced 3G.

LTE (telecommunication) - Wikipedia

 

[Oaktree]

I called our local internet/cable carriers (spectrum-iirc formally comcast)

Actually, Spectrum was created when Charter & Time Warner cable merged. Comcast is still around.

Our electric co-op is in the process of installing fiber and I MIGHT get on it when it's available but with their track record on keeping the power on during bad weather I'm not confident with it. We've never had the tower that services us go out in the 8 years so far ...

Someone else upthread also mentioned their power company was running fiber, AFAIK nothing like that around here. Surprised more electric companies haven't gotten in on the action, especially since they're the ones who own most of the poles. ISTR a while back (early-ish 00s?) there was talk of power companies doing internet over power lines, but that apparently never went anywhere, though some PoCos do use the technology to monitor/ping meters, and probably control their substations, etc.

 

[kcflhrc]

This isn't exactly on topic, but may apply to some of you.
I called our local internet/cable carriers (spectrum-iirc formally comcast) "business service" office and explained my situation and understood that it involved a "line extension" and that I was only looking for internet. They explained that for business service that they provided a $8000 credit towards construction costs.
They sent out a guy to survey the situation and to build the extension it would be $9450 and I paid the $1450 difference. I told him instantly "do it". The line is built (5 pole sections on the road and 9 sections on my land to our building) and we're waiting for a different guy to run the last 300' (through a spare conduit I installed when building) to the shop-house. Hopefully that should happen in the next few weeks.
I can't wait to make that call to bluesnet:laughing: and use that dish for target practice.
This was close to a mile long and I guess I'm lucky in that respect. But in all of my other attempts over the past 10 years to investigate the costs or possibility of service, the simple answer was a very short "we don't offer service to that address" but that was calling the typical residential catv service people, ie; phone bank.

So for all that time and cost what speeds are they saying they can give you?

 

[LouNY]

With all the hype about 5g service there is an interesting article in PC Mag they went through several locations doing speed tests with 4g and 5g phones and in most places the 4g was actually faster then 5g.
At this time at least 5g is just a bunch of hype with nothing to back it up.
I got the same service not available in my area from Verizon for the 4g lte.