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The 3G iPad can’t act as a host to a tethered iPhone, and its own data plans are quite expensive when you top a few gigabytes. (iOS 4 is required in the United States carriers in other countries have offered tethering with entirely different terms since iPhone OS 3 was released.) Further, tethering limits use to a laptop, although you can share the connection as with a 3G modem. Each additional 1 GB used in that same period is billed at $10, making a 5 GB plan cost $75 on a smartphone. Those plans are paltry and expensive compared to Virgin Mobile’s, especially since you’d pay nearly twice as much for the MiFi up front.Ĭompare these MiFi offerings to AT&T’s tethered smartphone option: the $25 DataPro plan is required, which includes 2 GB of usage within a 30-day period, as is a $20 “because we can” tethering fee from AT&T.
Verizon also offers prepaid, contract-free usage: $15 for 100 MB used within 1 day, $30 for 300 MB used within 7 days, and $50 for 1 GB used within 30 days. (The overage fees are a combination of profit center and discouragement to reduce network usage.) ( Novatel Wireless, the firm behind the MiFi, also makes an HSPA version that would work on AT&T’s network, but it’s unclear if it would support T-Mobile’s unique 3G bandwidth setup.)īoth Verizon and Sprint charge $59.99 for a 5 GB combined upstream and downstream monthly cellular data plan, and $0.05 per MB for data above that ($50 per GB), which is egregious given that the data doesn’t magically cost several times as much when you cross that threshold.
Sprint charges $299.99 without a contract, and nothing at all with a two-year contract.
Verizon charges $269.99 without a contract and $49.99 (when purchased online) with a two-year contract. Previously, only Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel offered the MiFi for their EVDO networks.
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Apple has bizarrely lagged in allowing its software base station option (System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing) to support only the outdated and useless WEP encryption method. The MiFi supports robust WPA2 Personal Wi-Fi encryption, making it a better choice than a Mac laptop. The MiFi simplifies that by acting as a cellular data gateway for up to five Wi-Fi devices. A mobile broadband USB modem might plug into a laptop, but then the laptop has to be turned on and sharing set up to enable connections from other devices. The MiFi has become a popular device for frequent travelers who need ubiquitous access to the Internet from multiple devices. Virgin Mobile is a subsidiary of Sprint Nextel, operated as a separate entity, and uses Sprint’s network. Unused data expires at the end of the period. There are no overage fees you simply add another time-limited plan, just as AT&T does with 3G iPad service offerings. Virgin Mobile offers four prepaid data plans: $10 for 100 MB consumed within 10 days, while 30-day usage plans cost $20 for 300 MB, $40 for 1 GB, and $60 for 5 GB. You can purchase mobile broadband in increments as needed. Virgin charges $149.99 for the device without a contract.
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Virgin Mobile has added the MiFi, a portable cellular router that acts as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, to its pay-as-you-need-it broadband service. IPad and iPhone owners now have another alternative for mobile broadband.
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