This site is operated by Automated Business Systems LLC ("ABS"), an Illinois limited liability company founded by Kareem D. Henderson. Recommendations on this site involve two distinct kinds of material connection: affiliate relationships (third-party tracking links that pay ABS a commission) and direct W-2 employment (products Kareem sells as part of his day job). This page explains both so you can decide for yourself what to trust.
If you sign up for a product through an affiliate link on this site, ABS may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. If you contact Kareem about T-Mobile Fiber, he is the direct sales rep and earns W-2 commission paid by T-Mobile through his employment, not through an affiliate network. In both cases, recommendations are based on hands-on evaluation and posted public pricing — not on the size of the payout.
Kareem D. Henderson is employed as a Broadband Specialist for T-Mobile Fiber. When T-Mobile Fiber is recommended on this site — whether on the Debundling Calculator, in a blog post, or under "Talk to me directly" — the user is being routed to Kareem personally, the same way a neighbor or knock-and-pitch prospect would be. There is no third-party affiliate network in the middle. T-Mobile pays him through standard W-2 sales commission.
This is disclosed openly because it is a material connection under FTC rules, and because it changes how you should read the recommendation. Specifically: Kareem cannot give a neutral review of T-Mobile Fiber the way he can with a service he has no employment tie to. He can, however, tell you the install process, the real pricing tiers, what the system shows when an address is or is not eligible, and when the product is genuinely the right fit for a household — because that is his daily work.
For the same reason, this site does not recommend Mint Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, or T-Mobile Home Internet (5G fixed-wireless) on the cell or internet swap recommendations — those products are owned by or compete with the same employer, and recommending them would create either a conflict of interest or an internal competition concern.
Separate from the W-2 relationship, ABS participates in affiliate marketing programs with several third-party networks. Through these, ABS may earn referral commissions when readers sign up through tracked links on this site.
An affiliate link is a tracked URL that tells a company "this customer came from Kareem's site." If the customer signs up or buys, the company pays ABS a referral commission. The price you pay is the same with or without the affiliate link. The retailer, not you, pays the commission.
We pass on offers where the commission is high but the product is weak. Trust compounds. A single bad recommendation cancels twenty good ones.
Comparison posts (for example, "DirecTV Stream vs YouTube TV vs Hulu Live") name multiple competitors regardless of who pays a commission. If a service we cover does not have an affiliate program, we still cover it. Reader decisions come first.
Disclosed as of the date above. This list updates as relationships start or end. Some relationships below are pending approval at the network — when that's the case, the affiliate link on the page renders as "Approval pending" and does not yet earn commission.
kareemhenders-20. Used for hardware-affiliate links (streaming sticks, OTA antennas, etc.).Where a specific product post is tied to an active affiliate relationship, the post will say so at the top in plain English. If a post has no disclosure banner, no affiliate commission applies to that post.
This disclosure is published under the Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides (16 CFR Part 255) and the FTC's Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. The standard is simple: tell readers about material connections that could affect how they read a recommendation. That is what this page does.
If you find something on this site that looks inaccurate, incomplete, or in conflict with this disclosure, write to kareem.henderson@gmail.com. Corrections get made fast.