Fleet Cellular Connectivity - Crosstalk Mobile
Fleet Connectivity
Cellular for fleets, with a network engineer on the other end of the phone
Unlimited 5G data on T-Mobile for every vehicle in your fleet, with no usage threshold and higher network priority than a typical reseller SIM. Flat price per line, no overage, no pooled data math. And when something goes wrong in a truck four states away, you call us and talk to the person who can actually fix it.
Authorized T-Mobile MVNO · No usage cap · Month to month · Billing starts at activation · Single invoice
Fleet cellular usually breaks in one of four places
Most fleet managers we talk to are not looking for faster data. They are trying to get out from under one of these.
The bill nobody can predict
Pooled data across 40 vehicles means one driver streaming in a hotel parking lot moves the whole invoice. Dashcam upload keeps climbing every year and the pool never keeps up.
Paying for lines that are not earning
You buy 40 SIMs in January and only six vehicles are outfitted by February. You are paying for 40 lines either way. Same story with a seasonal fleet parked for the winter, or a truck down for a long repair.
CGNAT breaking everything you need to reach
Your cameras, your DVR, your tablets, your remote management tools. If the carrier will not give you a real IP address, none of it is reachable from the office without a workaround you have to maintain.
Support that cannot help you
A truck outside Elko has no data. You call the carrier and get someone reading a script who wants you to power cycle a router you are not standing next to.
Think of it as a maintenance plan that comes with the data
You already budget for maintenance on the trucks. This is the same idea, applied to the part of the vehicle that keeps it connected.
Every Crosstalk Mobile fleet account comes with direct access to our network engineers. Not a ticket queue. Not a chatbot. You call, and you talk to someone who designs and deploys these systems for a living.
What people actually call us about
- A driver reports drops on the same stretch of highway every run, and we read the signal data and tell you whether it is an antenna problem, a band problem, or genuinely just coverage
- Picking the right antenna and where on the roof it goes, which matters more than most people expect
- Setting up failover so the vehicle rolls to a second carrier or Starlink without dropping the session
- Getting your whole fleet onto one map with the same configuration
- Locking bands, tuning WAN priority, and the rest of the work that separates a vehicle that mostly works from one that always works
We are a network engineering shop that sells connectivity, in that order. Ten years of deployments behind it. One avoided truck roll usually covers the difference between us and a cheap carrier line for months.
We replaced an IndyCar team's entire Cisco Meraki core overnight, then built the trackside network that distributes one fiber feed to every truck, timing stand, and back to Indianapolis over bonded fiber, 5G, and Starlink.
One price per line. That is the whole calculation.
Every line is the same price every month. Your telecom budget is line count times price. Nobody has to reconcile a pool or explain a spike.
| Active lines | Price per line |
|---|---|
| 10 to 20 | $141.55 |
| 21 to 50 | $134.10 |
| 51 and up | $119.20 |
Fleet pricing starts at 10 active lines, which is the same point where you get portal access. Below that, lines run at the standard $149 a month. When you cross a tier, the new price applies to every active line, not just the ones above the threshold.
Billing starts at activation
SIMs ship in a test-ready state and cost nothing until you turn them on. Outfit vehicles on your schedule as they cycle through the shop. A SIM sitting in a drawer is not a line on your invoice. SIMs auto-activate after 60 days, so plan installs inside that window.
Pause a line for $10 a month
Seasonal fleet, vehicle down for a long repair, spare unit waiting on a driver. Drop the line to $10 instead of cancelling it and re-provisioning later.
One invoice, month to month
However many lines you run, you get one bill. No per-line term contract. Start with a few vehicles and see how it goes.
Real IP addresses, so the things in your vehicles are actually reachable
Most cellular plans put you behind carrier-grade NAT, which means your vehicle has no address the outside world can reach. Inbound VPN fails. Camera access fails. Your remote management tools cannot see anything behind the router.
We offer a static IP for $5 per line, per month, provisioned within 24 hours, on any 5G router. No hardware restriction.
For comparison, and this is static IP pricing in both cases, not the cost of the plan itself: a Verizon 5G Business static IP runs $20 a month and up and has to be arranged through an account manager. A T-Mobile Business static IP is about $3 a month but only works on one specific Inseego gateway. Ours is $5 and works on whatever router you already run.
What that unlocks
- Inbound VPN to the vehicle
- Remote access to in-vehicle cameras, DVRs, and NVRs
- Remote management tools reaching equipment behind the router
- Site to site VPN for mobile command posts and job trailers
- SIP registration for in-vehicle phones
- SCADA and telemetry callback for utility and field service
No usage threshold, and a better place in line
Fleet data use is going up every year, mostly because of video. Dashcam and ADAS upload is the big one, and then telematics, ELD reporting, in-cab tablets, dispatch and proof of delivery, remote diagnostics, and crew or passenger Wi-Fi on top of it.
There is no usage threshold and no overage billing. Most unlimited plans have a number in the fine print where your traffic gets pushed to the back of the line. We do not have that number, and our live customers routinely run many times the data those published thresholds would allow.
We also sit at a higher network priority than typical MVNO and reseller plans. Those are two different things and it is worth separating them. A threshold is the point where you get moved to the back of the line. Priority is where you sit in that line the rest of the time. Most resellers put you in the lowest tier, which is why a cheap SIM can feel slow at 4pm near a busy tower even if you have barely used any data.
Higher priority means your vehicles perform better in exactly the conditions where fleets need them to: rush hour, dense urban routes, event traffic, anywhere the towers are loaded. Our specific priority level is covered by our agreement with T-Mobile and we cannot publish the number, but it is above where the typical reseller sits.
Where that does not hold
During a natural disaster or a major event, the carrier prioritizes emergency traffic, and everyone on the network including us can be deprioritized while that is happening. We would rather tell you now than have you find out during a hurricane.
Everything the fleet software does, on top of the connection
Pair the SIM with a Peplink router and InControl 2 and you get real fleet management. We spec, configure, and support the whole thing.
Location and tracking
- Live map of every vehicle with position, speed, and cellular coverage
- Route history playback for any time period
- Dead reckoning that estimates position from last known heading and speed through tunnels and parking structures
Geofencing
- Virtual boundaries with triggers on entry, exit, or route deviation
- Triggers do more than alert. They can change device settings or push a firmware update, so a vehicle can pick up a different configuration when it returns to the yard.
Coverage intelligence
- A signal quality map showing strength, quality, and latency by location and time. This turns "it always drops near the depot" into something you can point at and fix.
- WAN quality history and bandwidth reporting per device
Remote management, which is where the truck rolls go away
- Open any router's web interface from the cloud, no site visit
- Reach devices behind the router too, so cameras, NVRs, and tablets are accessible
- Push firmware and configuration across the whole fleet at once
- Clone a configuration to stand up new vehicles identically
Wi-Fi for passengers and crew
- A separate guest network for passengers, kept off the network your dispatch, cameras, and payment systems run on
- Bandwidth limits per guest so one passenger streaming does not starve the equipment that matters
- A splash page with your own branding and terms
- Useful on airport shuttles, motorcoaches and bus lines, crew transport, and any vehicle where people are sitting for a while with nothing to do
Staying online
- Dual SIM and multi-carrier failover in the vehicle
- SpeedFusion bonding combines cellular, Starlink, and Wi-Fi into one session that survives any single link dropping. This is what you want for live video, VoIP, and mobile command.
Built for vehicles
- Ignition sensing and delayed shutdown so the router does not drain the battery
- 9 to 36V DC vehicle power
- External antenna ports for roof-mounted MIMO and GPS
Already running a fleet platform? The router can forward GPS data to your existing server on your interval and protocol. You do not have to move off the system your drivers already know.
Run your own lines from the portal
At 10 or more lines you get access to our management portal, so you are not emailing someone and waiting on a business day to turn a line on.
- Activate a line the day the vehicle leaves the shop
- Deactivate when a vehicle leaves the fleet
- Vacation suspend a line for the off-season or a long repair
- Refresh the line from the tower, which is the fix for most cases of a line that has quietly stopped passing traffic
That last one is worth dwelling on. The most common cellular failure we see is a line that is active and provisioned and just stuck. Normally that is a phone call to support, or worse, a technician driving out to a vehicle to pull the SIM and reseat it. From the portal it is a button, and the driver is back online while still sitting in the parking lot.
An authorized T-Mobile MVNO
We have a direct agreement with T-Mobile. That sounds like paperwork until you look at what happened to the gray market resellers.
Several of the cheap unlimited providers over the last few years were buying consumer SIMs and reprogramming them to look like something else. One of the largest got sued by a state attorney general for deceptive trade practices, settled with a permanent injunction against selling telecom without a carrier agreement, and filed Chapter 11 this April. Their customers lost service.
If you are outfitting 60 vehicles around a connectivity vendor, that is the risk that actually matters. Not five dollars a month.
What we are not
We run on T-Mobile only. No roaming to AT&T or Verizon.
For most fleets that is fine, and T-Mobile's 5G footprint is strong in a lot of places the other two are not. But if your routes run through country where T-Mobile is thin, the right answer is a dual-SIM router with a second carrier as backup, not us telling you coverage is universal.
Tell us where your vehicles actually run and we will give you a straight answer about whether we are a good fit. Sometimes the answer is no.
Start with a pilot, not the whole fleet
Nobody should convert a whole fleet on a vendor's word.
- Tell us about the fleet. Vehicle count, what runs in them, where they drive, what you are running now.
- We spec it. Router, antenna, static IP, failover. If your existing routers work, we will say so and just send SIMs.
- Pilot a handful of vehicles. Month to month at the standard $149 per line with no contract. A low risk way to try us out.
- Roll out on your schedule. Billing starts per line as each vehicle is activated, and fleet pricing kicks in at 10 active lines.
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Common questions
How much is it per vehicle?
Fleet pricing starts at 10 active lines: $141.55 per line at 10 to 20, $134.10 at 21 to 50, and $119.20 at 51 and up. Under 10 lines it is the standard $149 a month. Flat either way, with no overage and no pooled data.
What happens when a vehicle is out of service?
Pause the line for $10 a month instead of cancelling it.
Do I pay for SIMs before the vehicles are outfitted?
No. Billing starts when you activate each line. SIMs auto-activate after 60 days.
Can I get a static IP?
Yes, $5 per line per month, on any 5G router, usually provisioned within 24 hours.
Do I have to buy your routers?
No. The SIM works in any 5G cellular router. We sell pre-configured bundles if you want turnkey, and we will tell you honestly if the routers you already own are fine. See the unlimited plan.
Is it really unlimited?
There is no usage threshold and no overage billing. Our live customers regularly run many times the data that other providers cap at, with no change in service. During a natural disaster or major event the carrier prioritizes emergency traffic and everyone on the network can be deprioritized, which is true of every provider on every US carrier.
How does your network priority compare?
We sit above where typical MVNO and reseller plans sit, which means better performance when towers are congested. The specific level is covered by our agreement with T-Mobile so we cannot publish it, but it is a real difference and it is one of the reasons heavy users do not run into trouble on our lines.
What network?
T-Mobile. We are an authorized MVNO with a direct carrier agreement. No roaming to other carriers.
Do you do multi-line billing?
One invoice for every active line, however many you run.
Is there a contract?
Month to month. Cancel individual lines whenever you want.
What can I do myself versus what needs a phone call?
Activate, deactivate, vacation suspend, and refresh a line from the tower are all self-service in the portal. Anything involving network design, antennas, or troubleshooting is a phone call, and that is the part you are actually paying us for.
Can it feed the fleet software we already use?
Yes. Peplink routers forward GPS data to your existing server.