AT&T (formerly Cingular) has prepaid voice and data. The details of the various plans are on their web site at: http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/go-phones/pyg-plans-phones.jsp
They offer two add-on data feature packages: 1 mb for $4.99 100 mb for 19.99 More detail on the feature packages here: http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plans/prepaid-feature-packages.jsp Both of the data plans are good for thirty days and unused data can be rolled over if you renew before the 30 days are up. With my Freerunner I can stretch 100 mb over several months, just paying $4.99 every thirty days to add a megabyte and (more importantly) roll over the unused data from the 100 mb package. The other nationwide GSM carrier in the US is T-mobile. AFAIK, they don't have a pure prepaid data option, although there is some kind of "walled garden" set of mobile sites that their prepaid customers can access free. Howard Forums has a good set of prepaid discussion forums at: http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=325 Hope this helps! Jim On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Ed Kapitein <e...@kapitein.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > We will be traveling trough the mid-west of the USA this summer for > about a month. > And i am looking for a way to have mobile internet on my freerunner > while doing so. (freerunner used as a modem for my laptop too) > What are the experiences with mobile data in that part of the US? > What is the best provider ? (cingular, t-mobile....) > What is the cheapest way to do so? > Can you roam from state to state on one plan, or is there a price per > state? > > Last time i bought a card like [1], but only for voice calls, and that > worked well. > > Thanks for the input! > > Kind regards, > Ed > > > [1] > http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-UNUSED-3G-SIM-CARD-SIM-CARD-for-CINGULAR-ATT-AT-T_W0QQitemZ170374759346QQcmdZViewItemQQptZSIM_Cards?hash=item27ab2083b2 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community