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2-week road trip in Alaska; will T-mobile work?
I'm taking my family on a 2-week RV roadtrip to Alaska later this month (we are from GA, and plan to stop at Anchorage, Homer, Seward, Kenai Fjords, Chitina, Valdez, Paxson, Denali NP, Talkeetna etc....
I can speak from experience. We flew into Fairbanks and the next day I got a notice that our data was shut down. I called and was told that even though there is roaming there, data is capped at 50mb. So here we were relying on smartphone maps and such, browsing to find places to eat/sleep etc. and not being able to connect. Had a great signal with GCI, but no data. Useless. When we got to the next town with verizon, I switch over to them and didnt have any more problems the rest of the trip. Tmobile wanted $35 more for 50MB more, which wouldnt have lasted long and still left us with nothing.
Look into something more reliable.
I switched back to TM a few months after my return home. Much cheaper than Verizon.
