If you had asked me what's a henway, it would have been shorter
But to your question...
Today you have to....
1. Have a 3rd party Internet Provider (Starlink)
2. Have a $300 - $500 antenna or whatever they cost
3. Pay an additional $150/mo or whatever they charge for the access to Satellite
4. Subject all phone calls to WiFi which exposes more security risks
Tomorrow based on T Mobile's Beta Program
1. None of the above will be true
With all of that said, you may have missed my greater point. I am making a mockery of the entire Beta program because I don't see ANY value. Being able to Text in Nowhere, USA is not on any lists I have. Not even my nice to have list. I only signed up because it is free. It would probably take me a year to find somewhere where I could actually use.
With that out of the way and related to your current setup. Remember when they had the HP Smart devices (Phones)? Not sure what they called the Smartphones back then? Anyway, I always had one, always paid cash for it and I NEVER had a data plan for any of mine. It drove AT&T crazy, because they hoodwinked customers to buying the data plans because most did not know how to go into the HP Smart Device and change settings so it would enable WifI. It was simple. Back then I did not need access to internet when driving to and from work, or if I was in a Wal Mart or Home Depot. My HP devices would always connect to WifI when I got or home or got to the office which was where I spent 90% of my time. I did it for years.
Here is the good part, when we bought our last brand new AT&T phones, after a long battle with many Supervisors; AT&T had ensured us we could connect those new phones to their network without a data plan. So we bought the new phones from AT&T and accepted the new plan. 1 hour later we get texts on both phones saying the Data Plan had been activated at $49.99/mo additional to our phone plan per phone. Not only would AT&T refuse to remove it, they said we could NOT go back to our original plan as it had been grandfathered.
So I don't like getting the shaft, my identity ain't neutral; so I had to fight back. I was desperate but I did something I had never done before. I walked into that
Pink phone store crying like a baby :whistling: To my surprise, they told us that our brand new AT&T phones would work on their network since I had paid cash and owned outright. They also provided us with a plan that was about $40/mo cheaper than our previous grandfathered plan with AT&T, but here is the best part. The plan included unlimited data and unlimited text. We have that same T Mobile grandfathered plan today. At the time T Mobile to AT&T was like how Netflix use to be to Blockbuster.
T Mobile is King in mind, at least until they block my use of Home Internet in the RV while traveling. My last trip we used 250 GB on the road, and they never said a word. I expect to use about 350GB during Christmas & the New Year.