Just got EVDO on US Cellular in Western North Carolina!
We don't have anything but poor dialup and satellite out here.
We could barely get Verizon EVDO ($60 per month with a 5 GB per month cap!) after putting a large antenna on the roof and connecting it to an amplifier. Sometimes it would go away for no good reason and Verizon was uninterested in fixing the problem.
We have a US Cellular site only about five miles away, but they just had 1XRTT data and it wasn't much better than dialup, sometimes worse!
US Cellular finally figured out that data could be a good business decision and got it running here. They also charge $60 per month with a 5 Gbyte per month cap, but we now have DSL speeds out here - 1.3 Mbit down, 667 Mbit up!
The US Cellular UTstarcom UM175 modem from US Cellular works fine with the KT2 router. Kyocera techs claim it wouldn't work, but after I loaded the Smith Micro software and initialized the modem on the US Cellular network I then just plugged the USB modem into my KR2 and rebooted everything and it works great. I had a Verizon 720 USb for the past year but lately the speeds have been terrible. I was getting .7 - .8 downloads usually but recently it has been down to .5 (one nice clear day last week it was down to .12 (dial speeds)). The UM175 is getting 1.2 - 1.3 down consistently.
I have the same data card from US Cellular. I use the Cradlepoint MBR1000 WiFi router.
I pulled out the Verizon data card and replaced it with the US Cellular card and it worked right off, only much faster than Verizon.
I had a Pantech card from Verizon and found that it was MUCH more sensitive than the US Cellular Pantech card. If I didn't have a repeater I wouldn't get a signal with the new card.
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