HoFolicity was a meetup for HowardForums users hosted by Mobilicity.

For the event Mobilicity was kind enough to bring out some of their employees including CEO Stewart Lyons along with 2 people from Ericsson - the vendor who runs their network to help answer our questions.

Even if you're not a Mobilicity customer it's worth checking out the video as it has a lot of insights from people who run the network.

The event was a blast. I had an awesome time hanging out with all of you.

Check out the cool T-shirts that Mobilicity prepared for the event (thanks Sheryl!). It's a reference to a contest we had in the Mobilicity forum last year.

A big thanks to Mobilicity for putting on a great event and thanks to all the members who showed up. Congrats to forum user loykee on winning a Galaxy Nexus and good luck baby HoFo. (Loykee's 38.5 weeks pregnant!)

Check out our written coverage here.

Verizon Wireless will launch a nationwide Voice over LTE service in early 2013, according to a report in Light Reading. Previously, Verizon executives had said the carrier would launch VoLTE in 2012.

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Starting Sunday, AT&T will be raising the prices and allocated data of smartphone data plans.

The 200MB plan is going to 300MB for $20

The 2GB plan is going to 3GB for $30

The $45 4GB w/tethering is going to $50 for 5GB

I'm assuming people will be able to keep current data plans, but these look better than the current ones (besides the grandfathered unlimited)

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Are you tired of roaming in the USA and getting back to a horrendous bill?

Do you proactively add travel packs and cost modifiers that lower your roaming costs but ultimately don't understand them, and end up going over anyway?

A roaming option for us Canadians going South of the 49th parallel seems to have come to fruition.

www.roammobility.com/

Taking a quick look at the site there are quite a few options. The options that interest me:

- MicroSim or Standard Sim card at $19.99
- Costs as low as $3.50 a day for calls / sms / data (Talk and Text and Data)
- Calls and SMS back to Canada are inclusive
- Roam on a network that's capable of 42Mbps (I'm guessing it's T-Mobile)

They claim it's about 99% cheaper then a domestic Canadian plan roaming in the USA.
Frankly, I believe them!

Have a look at the plans. I know what I'll be getting when I go roaming in the USA.

Just saw this... seems crazy!

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