[TriEmbed] IOT data plans

[Alex Davis]

FreedomPop looks too good to be true. I'd want to set it up with a
prepaid credit card. Has anyone direct experience with them?
 
 
On Mon, May 30, 2016, at 06:26 PM, Charles West wrote:
> You might want to look at FreedomPop.  One of their modems gives you
> 500 Mb per month for free.  The only catch is that you need to
> manually turn off their non-free "features" and they charge if you
> go over.
> Thanks,
> Charlie
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Alex Davis via TriEmbed
> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm setting up node-red (http://nodered.org/ ) on a Raspberry
>> > Pi, to
>>  > handle home automation/IoT stuff.  Since I want it to ping me if
>>  > my house
>>  > is on fire, I'm looking around for device-oriented data plans, in
>>  > case
>>  > home
>>
>>  I used to use PTEL. They are no longer in service. I liked them
>>  as you
>>  paid on a combo of minutes and service length. I think every 3
>>  months
>>  was $30, and it came with some amount of minutes I'd never use
>>  up. The
>>  problem was that my home is in a t-mobile null, so it was
>>  useless for
>>  home automation. We ended up putting the SIM in an unlocked feature
>>  phone for one of my kids. T-mobile is fine in the City of Raleigh.
>>
>> ptel.com is now a landing page for prior customers, and has links to
>>  similar low-cost service providers. Maybe one of those is good?
>>
>>  There's also alarmsim.com. Their deal is your minutes never
>>  expire, but
>>  the SIM cost upfront is expensive, and they only support SMS, no
>>  text or
>>  MMS.
>>
>>  Ever consider working out a deal to use a neighbor's wireless as a
>>  fallback, in case your own service goes out? Then you don't need
>>  the GSM
>>  modem.
>>
>>  Finally, would anyone like to trade for a Seeed Studio Arduino GSM
>>  shield? I have one, but have no use for it (because no service
>>  where I
>>  live). I have updated the firmware on mine so it works with the nice
>>  Adafruit GSM library and supports MMS. Let me know what you have to
>>  trade.
>>
>>  Alex
>>
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