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Charge, a phone company with features for nerds
- amluto 10y agoThis sounds like a great deal for a hotspot or for a simple internet-connected device.
- jdc0589 10y agoFor regular phone use, this seems like a worse version of Google Fi; granted, it supports more devices. Data is $3 more expensive per GB, and Sprint is your only option, vs Sprint or TMobile with Fi. Someone fill me in if I'm missing something.
- blhack 10y agoGoogle fi turns me off because it seems to somehow be related to google voice. I turned on a google voice number like 7 years ago, and used it essentially as a spamcatch. I still want google voice for something things (and would happily pay a few bucks a month for it if I needed to). But I want google voice nowhere near my actual cell phone. I could decline to attach my cellphone to my GV number, but that means getting rid of my GV number, which still isn't something I want to do.
- ikeboy 10y agoGet a new Gmail address?
- forgotmysn 10y agoits more closely related to gchat/hangouts than gvoice
- DiabloD3 10y agoAaaand they are a Sprint MVNO. Sprint has a pretty bad network in most of the US. Maybe they'll pull a Google-Fi and make themselves available on more networks.
- Johnie 10y agoJust wondering.. Can an app pull off the carrier switching function of Fi or is it an OS level functionality?
- DiabloD3 10y agoWorse, it is cell phone modem hardware functionality. It requires a very specific part of LTE-A implemented, connecting to multiple networks simultaneously (not merely multiple towers actively simultaneously, which I'm pretty sure LTE added, not LTE-A). Only Nexus phones after the 5 support it, which leaves me out because I have a 5. 5x, 6, 6p all support it. Also, obviously, the radio needs to support all the bands that all the carriers you want to access support, and support them under the base protocols you want to use. Case in point, Sprint is CDMA, T-Mobile are GSM. Modern LTE chips are supposed to support a wide range of channels (ie, all present and future channels used by the major four networks should work today on a brand new phone; should). Eventually, all future phones will support it else get locked out of next generation MVNOs. Google-Fi is the first, won't be the last.
- untog 10y agoGoogle Fi also makes extensive use of wi-fi for texting and calls, which definitely requires OS-level hooks.
- DiabloD3 10y agoAs far as I can tell, a lot of that magic isn't in the OS that way, as in, they are using "Wifi calling", which AT&T and Verizon also support on limited handsets (ie, Apple only, even though all modern Android phones support it fine. A lot of their multiple device calling magic seems to be done entirely in the backend. I'm not saying there ISN'T magic in the OS specifically for Google-Fi, but they seem to be trying to use as much standard magic as possible before using their own. Although, it'd be nice if a Google engineer actually confirmed if my suspicions are right.
- ryao 10y agoI switched from a Sprint MVNO to a GSM operator a couple years ago and then back to another Sprint MVNO several months ago. Before I left, I often had problems with connectivity. After returning, I found that connectivity problems were rare. I suspect that Sprint today is about as good as Verizon was 5 years ago, which is good enough if the price is right. In my case, I signed up with RingPlus, which charged me once when I activated my phone and has not charged me since. I consider myself to get cellular service for free, which is a fantastic price. Support leaves much to be desired, but that is to be expected at that price point.
- gonzo 10y agoLooks interesting, but perhaps 'stanleydrew' aka Andrew Benton could disclose that this is his company? https://charge.co/team https://charge.co/team http://benton.io http://benton.io
- tptacek 10y agoThere's nothing wrong with submitting stories about your own company on HN. Extra-special disclosure of that is not a norm here.
- stanleydrew 10y agoYeah, not even sure how I would do that. Would be strange to jam it into the title. I suppose I could have left the first comment after posting as an explanation. Right now we're not well-known enough for anyone else to post our stuff, so it falls to me.
- ikeboy 10y agoHow hard is it to get a sprint wholesale account?
- stanleydrew 10y agoPretty hard. Buy me a beer and I'll tell you about it sometime.
- maxerickson 10y agoIt's currently in the user profile. I also think it's totally fine for people to post their own stuff without any sort of disclaimer. Obviously they shouldn't post it repeatedly and obnoxiously and so on, but those are the problems, not being involved with the thing being posted.
- listic 10y agoIs $50 per month considered little for the USA? > The average Charge customer spends less than $50 per month with us.
- el_benhameen 10y agoYes. For two lines with a reasonable data plan on the cheapest network, I spend about $120 a month. On the larger carriers (last I checked) it'd be closer to $150-170.
- ac29 10y agoHow much data do you use? I have 2 lines with 6GB LTE each for a total of $80/month (plus taxes, etc) on T-mobile.
- maxerickson 10y agoNot really. But it isn't high either. People pay, so data is expensive. Unlimited voice+text is ~$30 anymore.
- jszymborski 10y agoPresuming US only, no Canucks?
- ape4 10y agoI like http://www.speakout7eleven.ca/ http://www.speakout7eleven.ca/ in Canada.
- dylz 10y ago> Our affordable data add-on rate is 100MB for $10 what..
- jszymborski 10y agoYah... I'm not seeing many ways in which this is comparable.
- ptoolan 10y agoI'm a big fan of them, after having checked out Charge a couple months ago. The fact they're CDMA made it impossible for me to use their network though. Can't wait for a GSM option to come along.
- rsync 10y agoCan I have no voicemail ? That's a feature I really want and it's not easy to do. If you configure a mobile phone line without voicemail, it will not just ring and ring and ring (as I hoped it would) - instead, the caller gets a message that "the number you have dialed is not accepting calls at this time" ... or some other message (depending on the carrier) that makes it sound like you don't pay your phonebill or something. I want my phone to ring and ring and ring until the caller gives up. I think I can do this with the twilio API, but man that's a lot of work for something (seemingly) simple. edit: this is the discussion I found that makes me think I could accomplish this with twilio: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22410430/twilio-respond-to-incoming-call-by-ringing-forever http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22410430/twilio-respond-t...
- ape4 10y agoHow about forwarding to a landline (that will ring and ring) after a few rings.
- dingaling 10y agoIn the UK AAISP offers that service but it becomes complicated because it involves an outbound call for the forwarding that has to be billed to the original recipient, not the caller ( since his calling rate was fixed on dialing the first number )
- CamperBob2 10y agoOr just record a message that consists of nothing but 5 minutes of a phone ringing.
- edwhitesell 10y agoI think you can do this with Ting, but I am unable to verify at the moment.
- johnhenry 10y agoI can confirm that it is very simple to disable voicemail with Ting.
- rsync 10y agoCan I have no voicemail ? That's a feature I really want and it's not easy to do. If you configure a mobile phone line without voicemail, it will not just ring and ring and ring (as I hoped it would) - instead, the caller gets a message that "the number you have dialed is not accepting calls at this time" ... or some other message (depending on the carrier) that makes it sound like you don't pay your phonebill or something. I want my phone to ring and ring and ring until the caller gives up. I think I can do this with the twilio API, but man that's a lot of work for something (seemingly) simple.
- a_small_island 10y ago>* Voice and SMS are unlimited up to a reasonable amount. We reserve the right to terminate service in cases of fraud or abuse at our sole discretion. From the "unlimited" notes for voice and text
- Karunamon 10y agoUgh.. Then it's not "unlimited". Unlimited means "without limits", not "with a limit we won't tell you". I can't wait for people doing this to get sued for false advertising.
- sargun 10y agoThis seems pretty expensive actually. $13/GB + $20 per month versus my Verizon plan that's ~$120/mo for 12GB of data. This plan would turn into $170. I usually go to about 60-80% of my data plan (tethering and such), which at the lower bound still doesn't make sense.
- LukeShu 10y agoThough they seem very data-centric, their other pricing is pretty cheap. $20/mo for unlimited voice+text is pretty competitive.
- stanleydrew 10y agoWe get that a lot. The point of our plan is true flexibility. In a month where you only use 1GB of data our plan is clearly better. In a month where you use all 8GBs it's worse. You can't perfectly predict how much you'll use beforehand. And some people prefer to know they'll always pay for what they use, rather than signing up to be part of a system where they're occasionally subsidizing heavier data users.
- bpicolo 10y agoYou can certainly predict it more reliably than 1 vs 8
- M4v3R 10y agoAre all data plans in the US so expensive? I live in Poland and I pay around $12/month for unlimited LTE (32Mbps down, 20 Mbps up in my area). $13 per month seems absurd.
- Zekio 10y agoSeems like poland have the best carrier plans O.o
- maxerickson 10y agoMore or less. At least 4g. There's tens of millions of people willing to pay the current prices so they don't go down.
- mataug 10y agoI was initially quite intrigued, They have some great nice to have features but are missing some useful must haves when compared to Google Fi such as 1. WiFi calling, Extremely useful, Many places that I go to have terrible reception and calling and texting via WiFi has saved me many times. 2. Simple international calling / travel plans. I use this a lot and again WiFi calling + international roaming on Google Fi has saved me boat loads of money. 3. Hangouts integration exceptionally useful again because you can use hangouts to make / receive calls & texts even if your phone dies or breaks. Yes it costs $3 more and that isn't a big issue if they can improve on Google Fi.
- stanleydrew 10y agoGoogle Fi is out ahead of us in terms of carrier relationships, which is how they enable #2. The fact that Google has worked on Hangouts for so long makes #1 and #3 possible. Unless you're talking about native carrier WiFi calling in #1, in which case see my previous point. We have the engineering background to build all those things, but we're limited by our carrier partners (currently just Sprint) for some. They haven't enabled WiFi calling on any wholesale accounts for instance, and have said that won't happen until 2017 at the earliest. At this point our best feature is that you get the simple pricing of Google's Fi, on an iPhone or any other Sprint-compatible device.
- akhilcacharya 10y agoIs it just possible to do WiFi calling using Hangouts? I'd rather do that, personally.
- jccalhoun 10y agoyes, i use google voice for this. i just hope they don't kill it!
- maximsch2 10y agoPrice is not competitive with T-Mobile 5GB @ $30/mo plan. I guess the only interesting use case is for low-bandwidth use on data-only plan just to get a device connected.
- stanleydrew 10y agoThat $30 T-Mobile plan is the plan I used to have before I started the company. I actually found that I was using way less data than I thought. Just looking at my Charge dashboard, for the last week (which wasn't atypical), I used ~120MB. Doesn't matter how many GBs are in your plan, if you don't use them, the price per GB is still high.
- icelancer 10y agoPretty sure 120 MB/week is atypical for tech nerds. I have the T-Mobile $30/mo plan and reach the cap every other month, and have to renew early to get LTE speeds. And I'm on WiFi at home and work.
- vinay427 10y agoPerhaps it is atypical, though I spend a lot of time on my phone and don't go through more than 1 GB/month because almost all of my browsing involves text and images, with videos usually only while I am indoors (generally over WiFi).
- Figs 10y agoI'm on the $30 plan and hit the cap every single month because I'm using it as my home internet. I absolutely refuse to do business with AT&T -- the only cable provider to my apartment complex. I can't imagine I'm the only person in this situation, and wish I had a better option, such as a fixed rate (i.e. X bits/second transfer cap) to the local cell tower at this one location that I actually use data regularly rather than a fixed number of GB per month over wherever they have coverage.
- jessriedel 10y agoThat's a recurring monthly fee rather than pay-as-you-go never-expire data. Apples and oranges. It's quite competitive if you look at the comparable T-Mobile plan: $10/GB that lasts for 1 week, or $5/500MB for 1 day. http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go
- goda90 10y agoI'd like to see cell plans targeted at remote "Internet of Things" usage. Say you have some sensor that you want to transmit X bytes back to the server every hour. Instead of paying for a bulk set of gigabytes you pay for the bandwidth and frequency you use the network.
- thesimon 10y agohttps://www.particle.io/cellular https://www.particle.io/cellular Might be interesting for you. $2.99/month for 1MB, $0.99 for each additional MB. There is no information about billing unit though.
- ajpgrealish 10y agoMost major providers around the world have M2M/IoT offerings but you normally need high volumes to get their interest. I work for a company that have 20,000+ devices deployed across Africa using less than 1MB per month with a very reasonable tariff. For lower volumes and DIY projects there are many re-sellers such as Aeris, Particle, Wireless Logic and more
- mjrpes 10y agoI hope this happens too. The MVMO Ting is closest I have seen to this. $6/mo each device and data/voice/SMS usage is pooled.
- Fastidious 10y agoSprint? No, thanks.
- LeoPanthera 10y agoFree (or, no premium) international roaming and wi-fi calling on T-Mobile are now essential features for me. One thing I've always wished for was for my phone to have a routable IP address and not be behind NAT. A&A offers this in the UK: http://aaisp.net/telecoms-mobile-data.html http://aaisp.net/telecoms-mobile-data.html
- advertising 10y agoI've enjoyed that for awhile now as well with T-Mobile. Except being in Japan more frequently as of late, the 2g speeds for free are great for essentials (messaging, maps, email) but damn I'd love a better package for LTE speeds that isn't like $50 for 200mb or whatever it is. Maybe I just need to do more research.
- vinay427 10y agoI was looking up the T-Mobile international roaming high-speed upgrade pricing for my own use so I might as well post it here: Single-day pass: $15 for 100MB 7 day-pass: $25 for 200MB 14-day pass: $50 for 500MB
- advertising 10y agoI blow through that 500MB in 2 - 3 days is the problem. A better, but not very cheap solution is to just rent a wifi hotspot for around $8 - $10 / day if you're on a short trip. Get 1 gig / day as well. I'm just going to get a japanese plan once I live here.
- hammock 10y agoFunny to see them market themselves as a "phone company" as opposed to wireless service.
- nathan_f77 10y agoMaybe I'm being too sensitive, but if a company calls me a nerd or a geek, then it sounds like an insult. So it makes me feel slightly bad, and is not a great first impression. I think advertisers should stop doing that. Also, why would a voice/messaging company write most of their software in Go, instead of Erlang (or Elixir)? That would make more sense to me. Also, those are not even features! Congratulations on your basic SSL best practices.
- rfrey 10y ago... takes offence at being called a geek ... calls out the company for using Go instead of Erlang Just sayin'. :)
- nathan_f77 10y agoYeah I'm a nerd or a geek, if that means I'm interested in programming and IT. But if you ask Google for some definitions, it still tells you: nerd: a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious. geek: an unfashionable or socially inept person. And it's also kind of patronizing. I don't know, something about it just doesn't sit right with me.
- dimino 10y agoThis is a you thing. Nerds are cool now, the battle you're trying to fight is over.
- 50CNT 10y agoI assume when you come on Hacker News you feel offended for being called a hack and a criminal :P. Colloquial usage of these terms has shifted massively, to the point where the most common definitions I hear from people are: nerd: someone with an obsessive interest in certain intellectual areas, especially academic/technological things (math/computers/the sciences/etc.) geek: someone with an obsessive interest in certain subsets of popular culture, especially ones relating to fiction (games/comics/novels/etc.) Now 'dork', that still has the old ring to it.
- ikeboy 10y agoI'm paying no monthly fees on Ringplus for a decent plan (3500 min/sms/mb). It's not so simple to get, they have "flash promos" with good plans, but if you sign up for promo emails at https://promos.ringplus.net/ https://promos.ringplus.net/ you should be able to catch them (one's going on today and tomorrow). The only catches are a weirdly structured sign up fee (minimum top up for most plans, and now they have member+ only plans, which costs $120 for lifetime, but was different in the past), and their radio program, which replaces the outgoing ring tone with ads/music/news/etc (you can configure it a bit). I've been using it for months and there's no other catches, which is great. The future of phone service is free.
- niij 10y agoHow is this even possible? Their site seems so sketchy.
- ikeboy 10y agoThey do charge random startup fees, and they have ads on every call you place, but only before it's picked up.
- subhobroto 10y agoThe topup fees go straight to your account balance minus the taxes. You are able to use that balance for any overages. They did start charging upgrade fees for a few promotions but that is often 0 too.
- subhobroto 10y agoHello! I love my Ringplus! Feel free to say Hi : https://social.ringplus.net/profile/33/subhobroto https://social.ringplus.net/profile/33/subhobroto > The future of phone service is free. For Ringplus, yes. For other providers, perhaps inexpensive enough to be considered "free".
- jldugger 10y ago$3/gb more expensive than Google Fi, and I'm not sure what's compelling about it for that additional ten percent.
- walrus01 10y agoThe $3/month for an active SIM with billed-as-you-go data in $ per GB rate is a great deal like the "Ting" MVNO: https://ting.com/rates https://ting.com/rates For something like emergency OOB access via HSPA+/LTE modem into critical infrastructure it's hard to beat $3-4 per month per active SIM card, when the actual amount of data moved in a month might be less than 50MB.
- IgorPartola 10y agoSo my family consumes a lot of data. I mean on the order of 15-25 GB/month. That would get prohibitively expensive for me. Moreover it would be more expensive than my AT&T bill. Do you have any plans to provide better bulk pricing?
- swrobel 10y agoOh cool, so you're like Google Fi but 30% more expensive!
- blisterpeanuts 10y agoGoogle Fi only works with Nexus 5x, 6, and 6P. Charge works with any Sprint-compatible phone including iPhone.
- JeremyNT 10y agoGoogle Fi requires unlimited voice/SMS at $20/month, which many people likely do not care about. To maintain data only, Charge only charges $3 a month. A more direct competitor in the "low monthly fee for light usage" MVNO space is RingPlus, which seems to be cheaper than Charge. There seems to be a different MVNO optimized for virtually every usage pattern.
- wpietri 10y agoInteresting! Anybody know of a way to get a lot of devices with no per-month charge, just per-byte? I have a project in my notebooks that would use cell data as a backup, and $3/month is still prohibitive.
- mattbee 10y agoIf you're in the UK, Andrews & Arnold have been providing "nerd SIMs" with proper networking and configurable voice services for years. Not that they're easy to configure or cheap :) but -> http://aaisp.net/telecoms-sip2sim.html http://aaisp.net/telecoms-sip2sim.html
- bpchaps 10y agoBug report - the email registration doesn't like nonstandard fqdns like .io. :)
- goddardcm 10y agoCould you shoot me an email (chris at charge dot co) with some more details on this? Was unable to reproduce this behavior.
- hackney 10y agoI'm down. Not clear on the $20/month with the $13/GB plan. Is that $20 for the acct and then an extra $13 per gig per month and does it rollover (the gigs)? Anyways, apparently your co. only accepts iphones and nexus devices, or something. I won't be able to unlock mine 'til Nov. and based on my imei it at present is not compatible. Bookmarked.
- hackney 10y agoI'm down. Not clear on the $20/month with the $13/GB plan. Is that $20 for the acct and then an extra $13 per gig per month and does it rollover (the gigs)? Anyways, apparently your co. only accepts iphones and nexus devices, or something. I won't be able to unlock mine 'til Nov. and based on my imei it at present is not compatible. Bookmarked.
- post_break 10y agoNerds use data, and this pricing structure basically punishes them for it. I have unlimited data and 7gb tethering with T-Mobile and unless they do something stupid or close their doors I will just keep throwing money at them. I managed to snag it at $50 a month too.
- icelancer 10y agoIs that plan available still? I am on their $30/month plan for 5GB but would switch to your plan in a second. Got links?
- post_break 10y agoIn select markets it's probably available. I know tmobile doesn't run it everywhere and it's a limited time thing.
- ryan-c 10y agoI have unlimited data/calling/text and 5GB of tethering per month for $50/mo with T-Mobile, but it's a grandfathered in plan that they put me on when they stopped offering plans with limited voice minutes (I had the lowest allowance possible) about two years ago.
- cornedor 10y agoI'm lucky to have a unlimited plan for €12 a month. The only downside is that it is just 3G, but in comparison to other plans totally fine. The counter where I can see how much data I used is completly broken on the site since they stopped selling it in 2011.
- niij 10y agoIf I signup for the data only plan ($3/mo) and purchase 1GB ($13) of data; does that data expire? For example, if I want to use only 100MB/mo could I pay $3/mo for 10 months with a single 1GB data purchase at the beginning to cover all 10 months?
- nickmccann 10y agohttps://charge.co/data-only https://charge.co/data-only About midway down the page it says: "Your data never expires, so stock up!"
- nowprovision 10y agoHa, love it that someone went out and registered http://your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com/ http://your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com/
- sandworm101 10y agoOk, yes. I clicked on the OP's "your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com" link. I was wonder how it would react to my using OpenDNS. Good joke. Not the results I was expecting.
- 16th_hop 10y agoI think something is up with the site, see URL of the Rickroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#sup_Charge,_got_a_bug_bounty?_cuz_I_just_found_an_earworm_in_your_site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#sup_Charge,_got_...
- sandworm101 10y agoMy bad for not scanning the entire url. That message was lost on my tiny address bar. But it does look like a legit message to charge.
- niccaluim 10y agoSomeone just registered the domain today as, I suspect, a practical joke: Domain Name: YOUR-CARRIER-IS-HIJACKING-DNS.COM Registrar: GOOGLE INC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 895 Whois Server: whois.rrpproxy.net Referral URL: http://domains.google.com Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C1.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C2.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C3.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C4.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok Updated Date: 22-may-2016 Creation Date: 22-may-2016 Expiration Date: 22-may-2017
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- nudpiedo 10y agoThe question is: in which countries are you operating? US only? Is there any SIM as a service in a Linux host or behind some REST interface? (for the creation of bots) Could I have multiple telephone numbers/identities in a single SIM? If not, does anyone now where to find those kind of services?
- ndmrs 10y agoIf you are looking for a web to cellular API check out twilio[1], seen it recommended by a lot of people and am planning to use it for a few projects I have in mind. disclaimer: Not affiliated. [1]https://www.twilio.com/ https://www.twilio.com/
- domrdy 10y agoHaha, I wish all telco companies would list their tech stack as part of their feature list on their homepage!
- gcatalfamo 10y agoAny plans for EU?
- pmorici 10y agoLooks like a nice enough interface but all my m2m devices use GSM & SIM cards. Besides being slightly cheaper this doesn't seem better than ting which supports both GSM and CDMA devices.
- amelius 10y ago> Charge, a phone company with features for nerds Looking at this Venn diagram [1], it appears the company tagline is saying something negative about their customers. Perhaps better to change that into "for geeks". [1] https://c8.staticflickr.com/5/4117/4889135495_e91b886fcd_b.jpg https://c8.staticflickr.com/5/4117/4889135495_e91b886fcd_b.j...
- KnightHawk3 10y agoGoogle (youtube/chrome) says "stats for nerds" and nobody cares, I don't think anybody really cares about being called a nerd. My friends and I often refer to each other as nerds and I hear it's quite hip with the youths these days.
- apokusin 10y agoUsing a Venn diagram to justify a loosely defined grammatical choice is quite possibly the nerdiest of approaches. pushes up glasses
- aaronsnoswell 10y agoGreat. When are you coming to Australia?
- qz_ 10y ago>sup_Charge,_got_a_bug_bounty_cuz_I_just_found_an_earworm_in_your_site >security
- mrfusion 10y agoI don't understand how the http://your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com/ http://your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com/ url works. Am I supposed to see Rick Ashley?
- ashitlerferad 10y agoSeems someone hacked that website, this is one of the headers: Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#sup_Charge,_got_a_bug_bounty?_cuz_I_just_found_an_earworm_in_your_site
- jwmerrill 10y agoI think Charge meant to use it to show you what happens when you visit an unregistered domain. This being the Internet, someone registered it and pointed it at Rick Astley.
- Bromskloss 10y agoMaybe the ".invalid" [0] top domain would have been appropriate here. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid
- mrfusion 10y agoWould you guys consider offering an emergency phone plan? Maybe voice only say 60 minutes a year for something inexpensive like $10 or $20 per year?
- mrfusion 10y agoIt could actually be an untapped market. Inexpensive backup phone.
- ashitlerferad 10y agoThe may be Gophers but do they do not support gopher://
- mrfusion 10y agoI'm having trouble finding a hotspot for this. Would this work? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/boost-mobile-franklin-wireless-4g-lte-mobile-hotspot-black/4683900.p?id=1219812005607&skuId=4683900 http://www.bestbuy.com/site/boost-mobile-franklin-wireless-4... Why does this one say boost mobile?
- hobarrera 10y ago> When you mistype a URL we don't sell your mistake to a bottom-feeding DNS ad network. If you see a search results page with ads when you click your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com, you'll know you have a problem. A problem you wouldn't have with Charge. I heard about this about a decade back. Is this still happening anywhere in the world?
- justabystander 10y agoYes. Many ISPs still do this, both mobile and wired. The latest one I saw was Frontier (in the US).
- catwell 10y agoReading the HTML source made me smile: <!-- Viewer Discretion is Advised --> <div class="full-screen-graphic">