called a "portable hotspot," "personal hotspot," "mobile Wi-Fi," "mobile router," "mobile wireless router" or "travel router." Either the fee is added to the user's existing data plan or a new ...

It's easy to think that some of the people suffering in Japan -- after meeting their primary sustenance needs -- might have been happy to have a device like the Zyxel MWR211 Mobile Wireless Router.

Mobile routers are, by contrast, actually not all that different from a mobile hotspot. There are differences, to be sure, but they perform the same basic function: converting a cellular data ...

However, T-Mobile said it was able to contain the intrusion before it left network routers and reached customers’ phones. The company said the threat originated from a “wireline” —- or non ...