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T-Mobile is offering its 5G gateway as a backup option for internet outages


Seems like overkill, but okay.

T-Mobile’s big home internet push continues, now with a new way to sign up for the service: as a backup option. But it also seems like overkill for most people, especially considering that most of T-Mobile’s phone plans already come with plenty of mobile hotspot data. The backup internet plan comes with up to 130GB of 5G data each month, which T-Mobile’s website says is “enough to keep a typical household connected with Wi-Fi for up to seven days a month.” Depending on your primary router, you could set up T-Mobile Wi-Fi as an automatic fallback option when your main internet connection goes down.

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