The USB mobile broadband modem should operate just fine on T-Mobile's US network, pulling down overages for gigabyte after 5 gigabytes onto your laptop and / or desktop. Outside of that, details are remarkably scant, but we reckon it won't be up for sale on the carrier's own site now, or ever, and if it is, it will cost just as much 4 years after launch as it did ON launch - like the Sony Ericsson data card.
Overages? Last time I looked at T-Mo's data packages that they currently offer, there are no overages. I even called in to customer care to confirm for my G1 -- the only data packages that are currently available all give you unlimited data. The only "catch" is that after 10GB, they "reserve the right" to limit the speeds to just 50kps until the close of your billing cycle, and then it's back to high-speed browsing.
I looked at my bill last month, and I used about 200MB of data total (that's 0.2GB) so methinks it's not really that big of a deal unless you're planning on doing a lot of large file-trading with the USB modem.
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The USB mobile broadband modem should operate just fine on T-Mobile's US network, pulling down overages for gigabyte after 5 gigabytes onto your laptop and / or desktop. Outside of that, details are remarkably scant, but we reckon it won't be up for sale on the carrier's own site now, or ever, and if it is, it will cost just as much 4 years after launch as it did ON launch - like the Sony Ericsson data card.
Meh, I wont use Huawei products.
Overages? Last time I looked at T-Mo's data packages that they currently offer, there are no overages. I even called in to customer care to confirm for my G1 -- the only data packages that are currently available all give you unlimited data. The only "catch" is that after 10GB, they "reserve the right" to limit the speeds to just 50kps until the close of your billing cycle, and then it's back to high-speed browsing.
I looked at my bill last month, and I used about 200MB of data total (that's 0.2GB) so methinks it's not really that big of a deal unless you're planning on doing a lot of large file-trading with the USB modem.