Paygo wireless broadband coming soon!
Mar 2, 2010, 9:07 am
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I think in Europe, they have actual SIMs, not these dongles, and you can get more favorable rates, like if you recharge 10 Euro each month, you get a couple of hundred megabytes or something like that.
So how do you re-up for another month, do they bill you or you just pay online by a credit card? The latter would give you the most flexibility. Or say it's the 15th of the month and you anticipate using 3G for a few days so you purchase for a month then. Next month, you don't need it and in fact, you might not buy data again for months. Can they maintain your account?
Better than these USB dongles would just be a SIM that you would drop into a MiFi type of device.
So how do you re-up for another month, do they bill you or you just pay online by a credit card? The latter would give you the most flexibility. Or say it's the 15th of the month and you anticipate using 3G for a few days so you purchase for a month then. Next month, you don't need it and in fact, you might not buy data again for months. Can they maintain your account?
Better than these USB dongles would just be a SIM that you would drop into a MiFi type of device.
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Mar 2, 2010, 12:13 pm
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So "theoretically" you could take the AT&T iPhone sim card and place it in an AT&T dongle???
Mar 2, 2010, 2:59 pm
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Mar 3, 2010, 3:01 pm
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It's more than a rumor. Virgin Mobile USA Broadband2Go has been on the market since Summer 2009.
$10 gets 100MB for up to 7 days
$20 gets 300MB for up to 30 days
$40 gets 1GB for up to 30 days
$60 gets 5GB for up to 30 days
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/mobile-broadband
Mar 3, 2010, 5:46 pm
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Virgin Mobile USA has just increased data allocations for Broadband2Go users.
$10 gets 100MB for up to 7 days
$20 gets 300MB for up to 30 days
$40 gets 1GB for up to 30 days
$60 gets 5GB for up to 30 days
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/mobile-broadband
$10 gets 100MB for up to 7 days
$20 gets 300MB for up to 30 days
$40 gets 1GB for up to 30 days
$60 gets 5GB for up to 30 days
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/mobile-broadband
Now make it a prepaid SIM that you can top up online at any time and get unlocked Mifi devices (without Wifi security issues) for about $50 and they'll get a load of customers.
But of course, on a GSM network, pricing might not be as good as Sprint or an MVNO using Sprint. And if they get too many customers, the service degrades.