Virgin Mobile broadband card to be carried by Best Buy
You know everyone has a mobile broadband card when Virgin Mobile is going to be carrying one… We just got word, and this screenshot, from one of our ninjas saying Best Buy is going to be carrying the data card starting June 14th. Just like everything else from Virgin Mobile, there will apparently be a prepaid option as well! Do you find yourself constantly worrying that you’re about to pass the 5GB softcap on your plan? If so, prepaid can definitely put an end to your troubles. Pricing isn’t solid yet but as far as monthly plan options go, we’re told it should be competitive with Cricket — possibly $40 for 5GB and a cheaper 1GB plan as well — and the card itself will run $149.99. Details on how prepaid will work are not yet avaialble.
They don’t want Leap/Cricket to be in the pre-paid aircard biz by themselves
hmm this will be interesting to look at..
The closest thing ive seen to this nationwide is ReadyBroadband (http://www.readybroadband.com/).. its a prepaid 3G card riding on a sprint MVNO. The data plans suck though. $75 for 500 MB is the highest tier
You guy’s do know that verizon offers (prepaid)day by day plans. We just dont activate them.
This might be a cool alternative for those who live in areas where Sprint’s native network is up to snuff.
Remember though that Helio tried this before they were gobbled up by Vigin. Users used so much 3G data that it became waaay too expensive to continue offering it. Some users cost them in excess of $6,000 per month in data fees.
The difference here may be that Virgin directly only offers roaming over Sprint’s native network. I’ll be following this closely.
DayPass. Activatable in the VZAccess Manager for $15/day.
Called a nearby Best Buy store here – they said something about being a ‘test store’ for the card and to expect it on the 16th of June. That and there may be a $9/day plan for it.
Virgin has been doing this in Australia for a while now. I think it’s about time.
Every now & then, I have to travel for my business Honolulu where there is no T-Mobile 3G there yet, so It would be great to actually be able to have my laptop work for me there. I look forward to trying this out. Even at $9 a day, I wouldn’t mind that at all. It’s a great alternative for us who could use internet connection while traveling on business or just vacationing without having to sign up for one of those really expensive packages with that mobile companies offer, not to mention that you also have to sign another contract for that.
$60=1gb cap per month
so is the t-mobile or verizon, the better for prepaid at the moment?
Does this run on Sprint EVDO? Has anyone hacked a locked Sprint built-in EVDO modem so it will attach to Virgin instead? (eg like the built-in broadband on my VAIO Z590?)
Just got off of the phone with Virgin Mobile and Best Buy. The VM rep said that the card would be available through VM online beginning tomorrow (June 9th), and Best Buy said that they should have the card in the store beginning June 16th.
ur right verizon offers it but if u have a deposit then ur paying that along with the price of the broadband card