Millenicom

[JWWaldschmidt]

I know there's been a lot of questions by people regarding Millenicom, so I thought I'd post up my recent findings:

Millenicom operates off of Sprint on all of their plans, with the exception of their 20GB/month "Advanced" plan, which operates on Verizon. This is according to a sales rep I had on the phone. The Advanced plan is $60/month, and there is no option to bring your own device with it. To the best of my knowledge though, this is the only way to get Verizon's data coverage with more than a 5GB/month limit. No contract, as always through Millenicom, so I fully intend on cancelling the service after July and restarting it next spring, to save money in the off-season. The fact that there was, in fact, a plan that could get me on Verizon won me over.

I'll be doing some extensive testing with the unit next week. I ordered it earlier today, it's slated to be in on Monday, per UPS. I ordered it at 8:00 this morning, had a tracking # by noon. Very fast shipping response time.

 

[Jerry Prsha]

I know there's been a lot of questions by people regarding Millenicom, so I thought I'd post up my recent findings:

Millenicom operates off of Sprint on all of their plans, with the exception of their 20GB/month "Advanced" plan, which operates on Verizon. This is according to a sales rep I had on the phone. The Advanced plan is $60/month, and there is no option to bring your own device with it. To the best of my knowledge though, this is the only way to get Verizon's data coverage with more than a 5GB/month limit. No contract, as always through Millenicom, so I fully intend on cancelling the service after July and restarting it next spring, to save money in the off-season. The fact that there was, in fact, a plan that could get me on Verizon won me over.

I'll be doing some extensive testing with the unit next week. I ordered it earlier today, it's slated to be in on Monday, per UPS. I ordered it at 8:00 this morning, had a tracking # by noon. Very fast shipping response time.

After some real issues, the Millenicom set-up is working. In the St. Louis, MO area, the Sprint presence is much stronger and thus, I got better service when I was on the Sprint plan. However, when near a Verizon antenna, the service is much faster. The problem is that Verizon antennas are always behind hills it seems.

I look forward to the openness of the plains in a few weeks...

 

[Matt Grantham]

After having a terrible experience with my Sprint card recently and a reduction in the Sprint network footprint, I decided to terminate my contract and sign up for Millenicom advanced plan. I got my U760 modem a few days ago, and it works great plugged into my Cradlepoint. Apparently to get the card to download faster than 500k you'll need to install updated drivers for the device. I used VZAccess website to download the drivers.