[188881] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mobile providers in the US for backup access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kuhnke)
Wed Apr 20 14:40:25 2016
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:40:22 -0700
From: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Look into Ting if all you want is a backup OOB path:
https://ting.com/rates?ab=1
$6/month per active SIM card. Plus billing for actual data usage. Use it in
your choice of HSPA+/LTE modem equipment. They're an MVNO using, if I
remember right, a combination of T-Mobile and Sprint.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Dovid Bender <dovid@telecurve.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> TIA.
>
> Dovid
>
