We're streaming now baby!

As mentioned in a previous post, we have been living with severe Internet data restrictions.  We've been getting 20 GB of data from Millenicom for $89.99/month, but Verizon just bought Millenicom and is shutting them down on October 31st. Millenicom uses the Verizon Network, but charges about 1/2 of Verizon's pricing. Since RVers depend upon Verizon for Internet, this news sent everyone on our Full Time RVers Forums into a tizzy.

Luckily, Verizon is running a 'Double Your Data' promotion this month. We took our Millenicom Jetpack into a Verizon store 2 days ago. The Verizon employee had never heard of Millenicom. She got the store manager - he had never heard of Millenicom either. He warned us that switching the SIM card in our Jetpack would not work if our Millenicom Jetpack was already in the Verizon system. But, the Verizon computers didn't have any record of our Millenicom Jetpack, and switching the SIM card did work. We upgraded to 40 GB/month for $150 and we walked out of the store with our Jetpack showing 40 GB/month. Switching the SIM card caused us to "lose" the last week of our October Millenicom pre-paid data -- approx 5 GB, but we didn't want to wait until the end of the month and risk missing the Verizon Double Your Data pricing.

With 41 GB of data (the 40 GB we purchased plus 1 GB of free data that came with Terry's new phone) to use in the next 12 days (the end of our billing period), we've been streaming videos like crazy. When we left home, we had been watching "The Good Wife", but had only reached Season 4. Now, we're ODing on "The Good Wife" and should be able to catch up to the current season before we hit 41 GB and the end of the billing period.  Life is good!

- Amanda (Holly Ridge, NC with 4G Internet)