LTE Cat 4 Cell Modem Card

If you want faster updates, send an email directly to me, as I don’t check FW community often, and I’ve had close to no time available this past month.

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As long as you’re on track, that’s fine to me, my order wasn’t urgent

Although I personally have seen too many of those hardware side-projects lag and/or never totally finish.
I have the feeling those always represents more time and work than initially accounted for, and even if they end up successfully achieved, they leave the project initiator drained and not fully recouping costs.

I personally was surprised by the low price of those modules, and would (again personally) not mind supporting the project a bit more if it can help (given for example you have to spend hours doing custom fixtures and testing).

I could of course be totally wrong and maybe none of the above applies, just that as a repair-savy nerdy person I’ve seen myself underestimate hours of work needed by projects way to often. I’m now much more careful when I offer a price estimate on something, and don’t hesitate charging for a premium to account for margins which I often end up eating up anyways, and would wish others did the same.
Thus this post.

So please reach out if an extra contribution can help :wink:

(I hope you won’t take this as an offense, I think I’m quite clear that it’s just my point of view from my experience)

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I’m fine financially, but thank you for the offer.

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:sweat: waiting…

Waiting on certifications right now.

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This is cool yes but why limit to only 2 us carriers. There are alot of people outside of the us.

like UL/FCC certifications?!?

Are you still accepting orders? Or do you prefer we wait until certification is sorted out and the product finalized?

Very eager about this product.

Buy it when you want.


Prototypes are here!

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Exciting news! :eyes:

Would be a good idea to cover the qr that has the important info in it.

I second this, altough I’m a total LTE/4G noob here: how can I check if Josh’s card is “supported” by my local carriers? Could anyone point me to a 4G ELI5 class somewhere? Eager to learn :slight_smile:

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Didn’t see this earlier, but this is defined by the module manufacturer, not me so I have no say in it.

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I think I got it. Did not see this post. Here are the specs for the EG95 family. Ordering one soon, go Josh!

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any eta?

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I also would like to see this in the near future. This product would be an extraordinary help when taking my Framework on trips or anytime I’m not home and don’t want to use free WiFi. Definitely following this thread to see where it goes!

Looking forward to this. Will be handy.

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Seeing as i ordered this 9 months ago I am only growing more eager to get it.
I hope @Josh_Cook can get us an update soon.

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agreed… 9months :sob: