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 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Pricing will depend on how the connection is used.
If it's a laptop card or built into laptop, you will supposedly be able to do hourly/daily/weekly/monthly charges, with no contract. They've hinted at $30-$50/month in the past.
If something like an eBook reader, like Kindle, the cost of the connection is in the price of the eBook. Kindle charges $10 per book, which includes the connection charge. You are billed by Kindle service, not the carrier.
If something like an iPod player, the cost of the connection could be in the song download. IE, iTunes could charge 99cents for download to computer and an extra 50cent to download direct to device or something like that. Again, you'd be billed by iTunes, not the carrier.
If something like a camera, imagine Canon setting up a service that automatically stores your pictures directly to an imaging site and you pay some fee for the service. Again, billed by Canon or picture hosting site, not the carrier.
There's another possible model where you subscribe to Clearwire WiMAX and have multiple devices on one account - a laptop card, streaming MP3 player, refrigerator, DVR, camera, GPS device, etc.
For the initial release though, we'll probably just see laptop cards/embedded laptops that allow periodic use charges with no contract. |
