Sprint To Also Sell Wi-Fi/3G Gateway Novatel MiFi 2200 available first week of June... Earlier this month Verizon launched their MiFi 2200, a portable 3G/Wi-Fi Novatel-built gateway. The device, which costs $100 after a $50 rebate, requires either a $40 (250MB cap) or $60 (5GB cap) EVDO service plan, with overages. Not to be outdone, Sprint has announced that they too will be offering the MiFi 2200 for $100 after rebate starting in the first week of June. Users will need to sign up for either the Sprint $59.99 EVDO-only plan, or the company's $149.99 per month Simply Everything Plan + Mobile Broadband.
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  Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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USA
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1 edit |  Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone
VOIP WiFi apps for iPhone:
»www.voip-sol.com/iphone-voip-app···-iphone/ | |
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join:2000-05-11 | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone I doubt it would make a phone call though.
5 cents per MB overage, $50/gigabyte. Ouch. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone said by RadioDoc:I doubt it would make a phone call though. With Voip on iPhone, I can't see why it couldn't work. | |
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join:2000-05-11 | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone I thought they blocked all those. | |
| | | | |  MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone said by RadioDoc:I thought they blocked all those. Nope. They are limited to WiFi only, but if you jailbreak your iPhone you can get them to work over 3G. | |
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| | | | They can keep all the smart phones out there. As long as they have a cap. I will never do business with these companies. $60 for 5g is just unthinkable. I guess there will always be a sucker out there. | |
| | | |  jester121Premium
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Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone The feeling is mutual, they clearly don't want customers who are heavy users.  | |
| | | | | | | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone said by jester121:The feeling is mutual, they clearly don't want customers who are heavy users. Correction, the clearly don't want customers.
It's quite sad really, I am really itching to do a bandwidth survey of people in my neighborhood to find a more "realistic" estimate of how much bandwidth people use. I guarantee that the average will be well above 5 GBs. | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone On an aircard? I doubt that.
Why would sprint impose a cap of 5GB on a product if the majority of customers were above that limit?
The point of the cap is to isolate that top 3% of users who are using many times the average and get them off. Do i agree with it? No. But when you have a small percent of customers using so much more than everyone else why not get rid of them from a corporate perspective. | |
| | | | | | | MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone said by VansHSI:On an aircard? I doubt that. Why would sprint impose a cap of 5GB on a product if the majority of customers were above that limit? The point of the cap is to isolate that top 3% of users who are using many times the average and get them off. Do i agree with it? No. But when you have a small percent of customers using so much more than everyone else why not get rid of them from a corporate perspective. I have a bridge to sell you too. | |
| | | | | | | | | said by VansHSI:On an aircard? I doubt that. Why would sprint impose a cap of 5GB on a product if the majority of customers were above that limit? The point of the cap is to isolate that top 3% of users who are using many times the average and get them off. Do i agree with it? No. But when you have a small percent of customers using so much more than everyone else why not get rid of them from a corporate perspective. Who are you? AT&T?
You apparently aren't an "average" user if you believe 5 GBs is the average. The average user goes on Myspace (which each profile has some stupid background, autoloading music, and other useless flash content media that sucks away at your bandwidth), Facebook ("keep alive" function runs in the background along with chat), youtube (streaming video, nuff said) and the like (google video, ect). What about streaming music? Radio has become a thing of the past, even audio can suck some bandwidth.
Now that netbooks are starting to become more popular, more and more "average" people are going to start to use and "abuse" it. Sure, the corporate consumer will just use it for email, but what about the current generation? My generation is all about social networking and just BSing on the internet.
I can almost put a money bet on that 5GBs is not the average on any used network.
This isn't 1988 where the internet is all text. The internet has exploded into movies, games, music, media, and whatever else you fancy that requires a lot of bandwidth. There are even whole cloud operating systems!
I'm off my soapbox now. | |
| | | | | | | | MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:said by VansHSI:On an aircard? I doubt that. Why would sprint impose a cap of 5GB on a product if the majority of customers were above that limit? The point of the cap is to isolate that top 3% of users who are using many times the average and get them off. Do i agree with it? No. But when you have a small percent of customers using so much more than everyone else why not get rid of them from a corporate perspective. Who are you? AT&T? You apparently aren't an "average" user if you believe 5 GBs is the average. The average user goes on Myspace (which each profile has some stupid background, autoloading music, and other useless flash content media that sucks away at your bandwidth), Facebook ("keep alive" function runs in the background along with chat), youtube (streaming video, nuff said) and the like (google video, ect). What about streaming music? Radio has become a thing of the past, even audio can suck some bandwidth. Now that netbooks are starting to become more popular, more and more "average" people are going to start to use and "abuse" it. Sure, the corporate consumer will just use it for email, but what about the current generation? My generation is all about social networking and just BSing on the internet. I can almost put a money bet on that 5GBs is not the average on any used network. This isn't 1988 where the internet is all text. The internet has exploded into movies, games, music, media, and whatever else you fancy that requires a lot of bandwidth. There are even whole cloud operating systems! I'm off my soapbox now. Did you miss where he said, "On an aircard?"
Who does all that 24x7 on an aircard if they have DSL/Cable or another form of internet available to them, usually at a much cheaper price point? Your stats and assumptions may be true for an average home user, but they are wildly off for the average mobile broadband user. | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Can use iPhone in WiFi mode & the MiFi to use EVDO & iPhone said by Matt:said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:said by VansHSI:On an aircard? I doubt that. Why would sprint impose a cap of 5GB on a product if the majority of customers were above that limit? The point of the cap is to isolate that top 3% of users who are using many times the average and get them off. Do i agree with it? No. But when you have a small percent of customers using so much more than everyone else why not get rid of them from a corporate perspective. Who are you? AT&T? You apparently aren't an "average" user if you believe 5 GBs is the average. The average user goes on Myspace (which each profile has some stupid background, autoloading music, and other useless flash content media that sucks away at your bandwidth), Facebook ("keep alive" function runs in the background along with chat), youtube (streaming video, nuff said) and the like (google video, ect). What about streaming music? Radio has become a thing of the past, even audio can suck some bandwidth. Now that netbooks are starting to become more popular, more and more "average" people are going to start to use and "abuse" it. Sure, the corporate consumer will just use it for email, but what about the current generation? My generation is all about social networking and just BSing on the internet. I can almost put a money bet on that 5GBs is not the average on any used network. This isn't 1988 where the internet is all text. The internet has exploded into movies, games, music, media, and whatever else you fancy that requires a lot of bandwidth. There are even whole cloud operating systems! I'm off my soapbox now. Did you miss where he said, "On an aircard?" Who does all that 24x7 on an aircard if they have DSL/Cable or another form of internet available to them, usually at a much cheaper price point? Your stats and assumptions may be true for an average home user, but they are wildly off for the average mobile broadband user. Same difference. A user can stick an air card in a laptop and surf away the same they can with a netbook. I know I have personally come close to 3GBs on my phone alone. Just imagine what kinda data transfer I could do with an actual air card. I consider myself to be a technical/outside the norm, but usually those that are outside the norm - become the norm. And I think you missed where I DIDN'T say "24x7". I said that is all the average user will use the internet for, I used to use a computer in a lab to surf and lookup news at my college - I would say a good chunck of users came in just to use myspace...even those who were doing homework!
Mark my words, once the movie/video/music industry realizes that they are sitting on a gold mine of millions of wireless customers, bandwidth usage will explode. But, then again, all they wanna do is complain about piracy.... | |
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Camden, TN | said by RadioDoc:I doubt it would make a phone call though. 5 cents per MB overage, $50/gigabyte. Ouch. yep when are these companies going to get it? The cap is bad enough but it's really the overage fees that are the bitch 5 cents per GB is highway robbery. And people where bitching about Time Warner charging $1 per GB.
don't try to sell me a service that I supposedly use a computer on then have this cap and overage fees and claim I can get the SAME internet experience. Anytime a company claims that watching even something like a low quality 3 minute youtube clip is "excessive use" something is wrong. If you expect me just to check e-mail and stuff like that hell I'll use dial-up. | |
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| | truth When will wireless companies introduce TRUTH IN ADVERTISING?
Answer: Never | |
| | | | Re: truth What was Sprint not truthful about? | |
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kudos:2 | Don't get it I can already essentially do the same thing with my blackberry. I connect to it through bluetooth and I'm online, all wirelessly.
Sure it's useful to bridge 3G to wifi, but that's just yet another option for wireless on the go. | |
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Onion, NJ | overages and voip The 59.99 plan dosn't have overage fees, and I used skype both with a sprint equipped laptop and a laptop connected via wifi to a wrt54g3gst router. | |
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1 edit | Re: overages and voip said by AVD:The 59.99 plan dosn't have overage fees Uh, wrong:
said by Sprint PR Machine :
Business and consumer customers may choose from the following service plans for the MiFi 2200:
* $59.99 per month mobile broadband only plan (excluding taxes and surcharges)**
or
* $149.99 per month Simply Everything Plan + Mobile Broadband (phone plus device connectivity -- excluding taxes and surcharges)**
Both plans include up to 5 GB per month and 5 cents per megabyte overage for the MiFi 2200.
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| What???? Your going to spend $100/month on the simply everything plan so you can get 5gb capped mobile broadband and then pay another $50/month for a second device which also has 5gb capped? Ouch. And as people are saying why not just tether the phone? I don't understand why anyone would want this. Sure you could set up wifi any where but for what? Multiple computers/laptops? You'll only reach the cap faster that way.
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| | | Linksys, Cradlepoint and Kyocera 3g routers nothing new Sprint has been selling a Linksys 3G/WiFi router for quite a while now. Kyocera has been out even longer. Cradlepoint appears to be the leader with most most options. | |
| | | | Re: Linksys, Cradlepoint and Kyocera 3g routers nothing new I think the point is this has a battery in it that enables you to use it on the road. Plus it has the size factor working for it. | |
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| | Ouch at the price and caps and OVER CAP. HOLY S***
Lets see how many in news of $20,000 over usage and roaming charge fees  | |
| | | bandwidth usage caps F'em I can live much happier withOUT all this electronic crap, so I'm going back to dirt bikes and boats for fun, and real guitar and drums on rainy days...
I already have more than enough software for passing time.
I AM GOING BACK TO A REAL LIFE,,,,,,,,, SO JUST F'em... I hope they go broke!
GOOD-BYE MYSTICAL BABYLON..... No more net or cell phone chains around my neck after this month is over.... | |
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1 edit | You can do the exact same thing for much cheaper ... with one of Sprint's Windows Mobile phones that has WiFi (so the HTC Mogul or the newer HTC Touch Pro) and the program WMWifiRouter. This will work on any plan that includes unlimited data. Plus you could get around the 5GB cap (and the subsequent overages), as Sprint usually doesn't invoke the cap on data used from the handset. Granted, this would break Sprint's TOS, but to my knowledge they've never terminated anyone for light tethering here and there.
This would also work on sprint's old $30 SERO plan, if you were lucky enough to get in on it way back when. 
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| | | | Re: You can do the exact same thing for much cheaper That is pretty sweet...I have the $30/mo sero plan and that would be great to be able to do that. | |
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