It’s a concept that you think would have been executed in this fashion already, but it really hasn’t been until now. Most mobile broadband is via smartphones or pay for a small chunk of time hot-spots in coffee shops.
Virgin Mobile announced a mobile broadband plan today that’s pay-as-you-go, meaning you prepay for access using their wireless USB modem. Their prepaid cell phones have been pretty popular among the senior and low-cost “emergency cell phone” clientele, and now they are offering something that’s pretty similar in a slightly different market.
Plans start at $10 for 100MB that expires in 10 days, which is good for around 5 hours of web surfing, all the way up to $60 for 1GB that expires in 30 days. It’s not cheap, but great for people that don’t need unlimited web service at home, or who are on the road all the time and need the convenience of this sort of plan.
Sounds like an interesting offering from Virgin, but we’ll see how they compete with various companies soon that will be offering similar services.
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