Netgear releases an unlocked M6 Pro portable hotspot — at more than double the price
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#6BMDT)
Nighthawk M6 Pro router, now unlocked. | Image: Netgear If you're in the market for a portable hotspot, whether to have safer internet connectivity in airports and hotels or to get connected in a rural vacation home, you might have considered Netgear's incredible M6 Pro router available through AT&T. However, if you didn't want to be locked to a carrier, Netgear's unlocked options for 5G mobile routers only included the mmWave-lacking M6 and the shorter-ranged non-6E Wi-Fi having M5.
That's changing, as the company's newly-released unlocked M6 Pro (MR6550-100PAS) finally brings a more comprehensive solution that combines all of those models' features. But it also comes in at a high price of $999.99 - a $200 premium over the regular M6, and more than double the price of the $459.99 AT&T-locked...