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you said verizon has the 4GB data plan going on. do you think that is over?
I also need one of the Mpbile Hotspots (4G) for example, Novatel 3G/4G MIFI, the Samsung Mobile Hotspot, etc. I know they get bad reviews because of the battery life for the most part, but I am starting to teach graduate courses in a few weeks and the place where I live has intermittent broadband. One day it is working and the next day it is not. I know the little Mobile Hotspots like Verizon's 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot MIFI 4510 or Samsungs 4G Mobile Hotspot. I have to have a back-up device like one of these little Mobile Hotspot and hope it will work for the 25 minutes I need to be available to the students.
It has nothing to do with just ordering a phone online. I have the New Every Two coming to me so when I try to order the iPhone is does not givee me the rebate and when I go to the next line to update (the old MIFI2200 3G) it says this line cannot be updated. Both of these lines are on expired contracts and both are supposed to give me the New Every Two because I signed up with Verizon when the New Every two was active so they are still giving it to customers who signed up when they were still using the New Every /two.
so it is very complex and it is much more than ordeering a phone online. Trust me I have tried to do it because I prefer to stay away from the Verizon agents.