Nova is a cellular modem in a USB thumb drive form ... This device that Hologram sent me is a 3G modem. They have something like 1,000 of them available to ship starting today, but what I find ...

A device that adds 3G or 4G (LTE) cellular connectivity to laptops, desktop computers and various tablets. Typically available as an external USB module, for desktop computers, the modem may also ...

If your thought repurposing DVB-T dongles for generic software defined radio (SDR) use was cool, wait until you see QCSuper, a project that re-purposes phones and modems to capture raw 2G/3G/4G/5G.