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Best MiFi Plans!
Are you excited about Mi-Fi
and researching what are the best MiFi plans with no contract (i.e.
prepaid) out there? Well, there's good news and bad news.
The bad news is that there's currently only a limited number
of available
prepaid MiFi options. The good news is that there ARE
available options! ;-) If you haven't already done so, check
out the MiFi
discussion page to learn more about this exciting mobile hotspot
technology!

In
fact, until 2010, there weren't any prepaid Mi-Fi offers that
could be classified as
traditional prepaid offerings. You had to basically buy a
Sprint or Verizon MiFi hotspot device at regular price with a
month-to-month plan. In other words, no prepaid broadband
providers offered MiFi devices, leaving you still receiving a bill from
Verizon or Sprint! Though with the month-to-month
benefit, much like other
Prepaid
Broadband offerings, you'll pay more for the hardware/modem
than you would have to if you signed a one or two year contract.
Fortunately, early 2010 was a sort of prepaid broadband revolution, if
you will, that resulted in the major providers (ex. AT&T and
Verizon) to begin offering prepaid wireless broadband plans.
They entered the no contract market due to the incredible
demand as customers shift from postpaid contracts to prepaid, no
contract broadband Internet plans. Fortunately Verizon had a
postpaid MiFi modem that they were able to offer on a no contract
basis. So although the options were limited in terms of
evaluating the best MiFi plans, I'm confident that our options will
continue to increase! In fact, in June 2010 Virgin Mobile
launched its MiFi hotspot offering, which was great news!
The table below
gives you some of the critical details of the Verizon and
Virgin Mobile MiFi offerings.
It's actually quite interesting to review the MiFi plan
offers; it's almost as though despite the fact that Verizon has a
prepaid MiFi offering, Virgin Mobile's pricing blows them out of
contention! Regardless, it's great to have choice, and no
doubt that we'll start to see additional entrants to the MiFi hotspot
market as hardware prices continue to get cheaper and cheaper.
I
constantly monitor the news, so rest assured that when other prepaid
MiFi plans become available, I will update
this table within a matter of days so you can always compare
the
best MiFi plans available. So for now, in terms of best MiFi
plans, you've got two options! If you want to
keep in touch so you know when this page has been updated, you can
subscribe to the RSS feed, or you can signup for the Free
Prepaid Wireless Tracker, which includes what's new on this
site, as well as wireless news; it's sent out monthly.
| Provider |
Verizon
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Virgin
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| Fee
(MB included) |
$15
- 1 day (100MB)
$30 - 7 days (300MB)
$50 - 30 days
(1GB) |
$10
- 10 days (100MB)
$20 - 30 days (300MB)
$40 - 30 days
(1GB)
$60 - 30 days (5GB) |
| Equipment |
Novatel
2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot
$269.99 |
Novatel
2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot
$149 |
| Activation Fee |
None |
None |
| Network |
CDMA
3G EV-DO RevA |
Sprint
Nationwide Network
CDMA
3G EV-DO RevA |
| Notes |
Supports
VPN
Battery life = 4 hrs. (40 hrs. standby)
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for a FREE MiFi device & willing to go postpaid?
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Battery
life = 4 hrs. (40 hrs. standby) |
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