Comments on: Virgin Mobile broadband card to be carried by Best Buy

By: kat

kat — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:14:42 +0000

ur right verizon offers it but if u have a deposit then ur paying that along with the price of the broadband card

By: Monique

Monique — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:45:22 +0000

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.

By: Rurik

Rurik — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:34:16 +0000

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?)

By: Alton

Alton — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:48:13 +0000

so is the t-mobile or verizon, the better for prepaid at the moment?

By: greg@virginmobile

greg@virginmobile — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:43:08 +0000

$60=1gb cap per month

By: mb00

mb00 — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:49:07 +0000

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.

By: Dakota

Dakota — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:23:01 +0000

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.

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:18:57 +0000

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.

By: downsouth821

downsouth821 — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:43:44 +0000

You guy’s do know that verizon offers (prepaid)day by day plans. We just dont activate them.

By: Matt S

Matt S — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:38:30 +0000

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

By: Don Louie Cantone

Don Louie Cantone — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:35:01 +0000

They don’t want Leap/Cricket to be in the pre-paid aircard biz by themselves