# What is the best wireless provider?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-wireless-provider/474957>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 29, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-wireless-provider/474957 "2008-11-29T19:16:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-wireless-provider/474957/1 "2008-11-29T19:16:36Z")

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I may be using the wrong term in the title. What I’m after is a service for my laptop that will work nationwide without having to be in a “hotspot”. We will be on the road for about a year and will need to have internet capability along with cell service. The latter doesn’t seem to be a problem to find. From the searching I’ve done, it appears that AT&T gets good reviews, but I’d like to see if there is any personal doper experience with this. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-wireless-provider/474957/2 "2008-11-30T15:49:21Z")

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Bump. Really? Nobody has ever used wireless service for their laptop?