Mobile providers in the US for backup access

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

I had horrible experience when I tried to use Freedom POP many years ago.

Their customer service is awful and completely uncooperative. Their equipment did not work well
in my environment at all.

I would not wish them on my worst enemy.

Owen

> On Apr 20, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
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> I'd look at FreedomPOP's Netgear 341U. $20 - $50 NRC, single digit MRC for low usage. 
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> Mike Hammett 
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Dovid Bender" <dovid at telecurve.com> 
> To: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 1:16:56 PM 
> Subject: Mobile providers in the US for backup access 
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> A while ago some people mentioned that some US carriers have basic internet 
> plans for backup access to their equipment. A few questions: 
> 1) Do they give you a public IP per connection or do you tunnel back to a 
> central location and then connect via the tunnel? 
> 2) Which carriers offer this and what kind of devices do you use to 
> connect? Is it simply a GSM card on a "MyFi" like device? We have lots of 
> Pi's out there that we want backup access to. 
> 3) Can you send off list contacts and pricing that you have gotten in the 
> past? 
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> TIA. 
> 
> Dovid