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Re: SIM cards, WiFi HotSpotting & Wireless Providers.

TimTechTime
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SIM cards, WiFi HotSpotting & Wireless Providers.

Changing to Puretalk USA if that matters , but more importantly they allow hot spotting . I am wanting a dedicated, full-time WiFi hotspot like Netgear's Orbi LBR20 https://www.netgear.com/orbi/lbr20.aspx . It allows a SIM card to be inserted, acting like a modem and router in one unit, operating on a cellular network. I cannot get a definitive answer from both Puretalk or Netgear wether it will work. If wireless network providers allow hotspotting/tethering with a phone, does it follow that this unit would work? Is the SIM card programming embedded with "seeing and differentiating" between a phone versus a dedicated data device? Are these types of devices created with a SIM card fake out, making like it is a phone? Does any of that matter or will the wireless provider see the type of unit and then allows or disallows it's use? Please help.
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Mstrbig
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Re: SIM cards, WiFi HotSpotting & Wireless Providers.

They are not listed as one of the compatible providers. And I don't think you will get a definite answer. I guess purchase it, see if it works, and if not, send it back?
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TimTechTime
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Re: SIM cards, WiFi HotSpotting & Wireless Providers.

Thank you MstrbigPuretalk USA uses the AT&T network so that may be one step closer.  Not sure I can return it,  I cannot find it except on Netgears store.  I have yet to look at their return policy.

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Mstrbig
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Re: SIM cards, WiFi HotSpotting & Wireless Providers.


@TimTechTime wrote:

Thank you MstrbigPuretalk USA uses the AT&T network so that may be one step closer.  Not sure I can return it,  I cannot find it except on Netgears store.  I have yet to look at their return policy.


If Puretalk USA uses the AT&T network, it should work fine.

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