From: not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 13:33:37 -0600, none wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Like you, I was a happy IOTG user through a Walmart purchase for several   
   years. Because the MiFi 2200 was a 3G device and can not use 4G LTE it would   
   be pretty useless even if Sprint or IOTG still did offer interesting plans.   
      
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