AlexSian
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Over the weekend, electronista reported that VirginMobile prematurely confirmed forthcoming plans to provide truly unlimited mobile broadband data service with no contract, for $40/mo on VM's FaceBook page. If this really happens, it should seriously change the mobile broadband market, and the consumers win!
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DrBaker
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I think this will eventually become the norm. Tech seems to be the only thing that comes down in price.
I believe Sprint has unlimited 4G internet packages for $59/month. If it gets down to the $40 area, I might be dropping my cable modem for their wireless package. About the same expense, 1 less bill, and I can take it wherever I go.
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I read many of the posts, and in my head go...please be in Canada, please be in Canada. We seem to be more restricted in our options.
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AlexSian
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I think that VM's new pricing is a response to Sprint's unlimited 3G/4G hotspot feature for the EVO, and agree that other carriers are going to have to respond by lowering their prices. its about time, too.
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skipnchar
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It will be great if this becomes a normal practice for a company that actually has some wide coverage. Even the coverage map for Virgin Mobile (which are almost always VERY optomistic) shows very little coverage in most of the US.
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TomG2
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It is the same coverage as Sprint which works well for me from Texas to Washington state and from Florida to New York. Verizon was only slightly better for me, but it had dead spots too.
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pianotuna
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Hi,
Well if the price becomes low enough, get yourself a Cradlepoint MBR1200 wifi router and plug in *two* usb modems--one for Sprint--and one for Verizon. The router has "fall back" in place so if the Sprint has no signal it will automatically switch to the Verizon. That is my understanding of what the manual seems to say.
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AlexSian
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pianotuna wrote:Hi,
Well if the price becomes low enough, get yourself a Cradlepoint MBR1200 wifi router and plug in *two* usb modems--one for Sprint--and one for Verizon. The router has "fall back" in place so if the Sprint has no signal it will automatically switch to the Verizon. That is my understanding of what the manual seems to say.
You are correct about failover capabilities, ... and the mbr1200 can also use multiple modems simultaneously via load balancing. Doing this allows more total bandwidth available to all connected computers.
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pianotuna
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Hi Alex,
I thought the load balancing was part of the equation too--but I wasn't sure. Does it require setting up to do fail over vs load balancing?
I'm delighted with the MBR1200.
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Lorne&Lorraine
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I can see why they are doing it, but Virgin's new pricing would effectively double my costs. I was getting by quite nicely with their $20/month plan and have zero need for more data. Oh well, I only use it a few months of the year and they've got much bigger fish to fry.
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