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What’s the first thing you do when you land in a new destination? If you’re like me, you immediately take your phone off of airplane mode and try to connect to data so you can shoot off a ‘just landed ...

If you’re already a Spectrum TV or internet customer, it might make sense to put your smartphone on Spectrum Mobile. This is especially true nowadays as the company recently upgraded its strategy.

If you’ve purchased a new cell phone in the past decade or so, you’re probably already familiar with the SIM—the little thumbnail-sized card that’s used to connect to your your carrier’s cellular ...

In 2015, I found myself walking with a friend at 3 AM to a Walmart in the middle of nowhere, Las Vegas, because we had just landed and really needed prepaid SIM cards for an 8 AM press conference.

For the longest time, using a physical SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card was the only way to connect cell phones to a carrier's network. Although physical SIM cards have gotten smaller over the ...

Curious which iPhones have eSIM support or if your current iPhone has an eSIM you can take advantage of? Read along for a look at the complete iPhone eSIM list for which models have the embedded ...

Ubigi, launched by Transatel, is already tapping into this shift. In June 2025, the eSIM brand partnered with MINI to offer ...

SIMs – the tiny plastic cards you’ve got to shove into a tray to make things work – have been around almost since the first portable phones. They let your device to connect to mobile networks for ...