Virgin Mobile launching prepaid MiFi next week
By Chris Ziegler 
posted June 23rd 2010 7:54AM
posted June 23rd 2010 7:54AM
The spotlight on Sprint's MiFi has definitely faded since the launch of the Overdrive and EVO 4G -- both of which can kick it into high 4G gear when in range -- but Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile is bringing Novatel's groundbreaking mobile hotspot back into the forefront by taking it to the prepaid world. What that means is that you'll be paying $149 for the MiFi itself -- contract free, naturally -- plus any of a number of prepaid data rates ranging from $10 for 100MB all the way up to $60 for 5GB. It's said to be launching next Monday online and in Best Buy and Radio Shack locations -- so if you're an occasional data user, this might be about the best option on the block.
Don't get virgin mobile broadband2go if you depend on it working.
All levels at virgin mobile (from customer reps to so called "executive" care) are unable to report any actual tower issues... this means that when the tower you are using fails it will remain broken indefinitely (or until a post paid sprint customer reports a problem).
When you are on a tower that works the virgin mobile broadband is not that bad (capped at around 1.4meg down and 600k up)... but if they have a network issue forget it... it will remain down until one of their contracted customers complains.
Ordering on the website is live.
http://www.virginmobileusa.com
this gadget is crap. virgin mobile service is garbage. if your dealing with pre paid your going to get treated like pre paid. nothing is easy. i bought this piece of crap and hooked it up to my ipod. it was working fine for one day. on the second day i noticed that i could no longer log into the internet and was only able to get the virgin mobile site, telling me my bs mifi was never connected. i called virgin, they tried to reset my device but they couldnt figure out why my device wasnt reading their password. NO ONE AT VIRGIN CAN HELP YOU!! now im loosing days, which = megabytes, because a tech wont be able to contact me for 3 days. thanks virgin. i just lost $200.