[SOLVED] SIM Cards & a Dedicated HotSpot Device

[TimsTechTime]

Changing to Puretalk USA if that matters , but more importantly they allow hot spotting . I am wanting a dedicated, full-time WiFi hotspot like Netgear's Orbi LBR20 https://www.netgear.com/orbi/lbr20.aspx . It allows a SIM card to be inserted, acting like a modem and router in one unit, operating on a cellular network. I cannot get a definitive answer from both Puretalk or Netgear wether it will work. If wireless network providers allow hotspotting/tethering with a phone, does it follow that this unit would work? Is the SIM card programming embedded with "seeing and differentiating" between a phone versus a dedicated data device? Are these types of devices created with a SIM card fake out, making like it is a phone?

 

[bill001g]

The device itself most times has to be activated in addition to the sim. Would be too easy to use stolen equipment if you could just pop your sim in stolen stuff and it works.
The ISP most times has a list of devices they allow. Kinda why you see very little huawei stuff supported in the USA.

This first step is to find out what bands the ISP is using in your area and then look up the bands the hotspot supports. You will see things like LTE band numbers and their corresponding frequencies. Although many newer devices support all bands that is far from universal. It is especially true when the manufacture makes multiple units designed to only function on certain providers networks.