well, Verizon charges $15/day (75MB) for the MiFi mobile hotspot (which is a ripoff) but $30/week (250MB) for prepaid mobile broadband.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobilebroadband/?page=plans better than nothing. On 3/11/10, Craig Froehle <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Don Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's completely silly / moronic / self-defeating / pick an adjective for >> Sprint to offer NO tethering, and for Verizon to only offer the expensive >> Cadillac type. With becoming more ubiquitous, many/most people just need >> tethering occasionally, in a pinch. Sprint and Verizon should offer some >> limited, supported tool to enable this, and charge a small monthly fee, or >> a >> per megabyte fee, or hybrid of the two. > > Exactly. With many hotels charging $9.99 to $14.99 per day, carriers > could easily make some tidy change by giving me the option of 24 hours > of use for, say, $2.99. If I use it all month, then they made even > more money than if I had a plan. And if I don't, well, then we're > both better off. >
