AT&T Launches Prepaid Mobile Broadband

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Posted Nov 24, 11:12 AM in: News » ATT, Mobile Broadband, Plans, Prepaid

Looks like finally the prepaid for mobile broadband is slowly, but surely reaching the new world.

AT&T today has launched the Mobile Broadband Data prepaid plan.

Prepaid mobile broadband data services are extremely popular in Europe. In the US, however, any Internet addict with attention deficit, willing to take the Net on the road, needed to indenture themselves into a contract with AT&T even if they wanted to pay monthly…

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Sprint Acquires Virgin Mobile USA

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Posted Aug 31, 08:00 PM in: News » Mobile Broadband, News, Sprint, Virgin

Sprint has just acquired Virgin Mobile USA.

So what? Well, it does show that importance and popularity of prepaid plans finally has been noticed by the big company.

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Verizon Wireless Launches New USB Modem - Now with World Coverage

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Posted Aug 27, 03:07 PM in: News » Mobile Broadband, News, USB, Verizon

Verizon has recently announced an addition to its Mobile Broadband Modems lineup. Manufactured by ZTE, the AD3700 features global connectivity. Up to June 2009, only AT&T could proudly advertise global mobile broadband connectivity due to their choice of global mobile network standard – GSM/UMTS/HSPA.

Verizon and Sprint, however, having built on CDMA/EvDO standard, could cover only North America, including USA and Canada.

Recent announcements from Verizon might change all that.

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Virgin Mobile is 1-st with Pay as You Go 3G Mobile Broadband Service in US - Finally!

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Posted Aug 3, 11:27 AM in: News » Mobile Broadband, News, Sprint, USB, Virgin

Pay as You go mobile broadband is rather wide spread in Europe, but here in North America, the only option to get online over mobile network has so far been tying yourself with minimum 2-year contract that will set you back cool $60 bucks/month or up to $175 in fees if you decide to quit.

Not anymore. Virgin Mobile USA has just rolled out the Broadband2Go mobile broadband service sans contract.

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