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   Novatel MiFi 2200-still good for anythin   
   17 Nov 19 13:33:37   
   
   From: user@domain.invalid   
      
   Bought it around a decade ago from Walmart to use with their Internet on   
   the Go service-you know, the one that let you buy data as you needed on   
   a true pay-as-you-go basis via prepaid cards.  Their oft-repeated   
   promise that data, once purchased, would never expire was, of course,   
   not kept.  Eventually they ratcheted it down to 60 days before doing   
   away with it altogether.  IOTG's successor now requires you to buy a   
   hotspot directly from them and only offers monthly service-and calling   
   them re my current device and unused cards was a joke.   
      
   So much for that.  Anyway, does anyone know if there's still any   
   provider out there that I could use this thing on?  It apparently   
   doesn't have a SIM card slot, which would make sense as I believe IOTG   
   was a Sprint-affiliated MVNO back when I bought it.   
      
   Not that I'm really likely to start spending hundreds of dollars a year   
   for what would amount to having a backup for my home service in case of   
   outages, mind you-but you never know.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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