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.
>

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