The Mifi itself is a great device, and nearly worth the cost they ask for it. What's the killer is the "gut your skull" data plans that rob you blind and then some. It's almost like the carriers don't want to do high speed mobile internet, and yet since the users want it so badly, the telcos are going to give it to them anyways, and then punish them by making everyone pay through the teeth with ridiculous prices in order to get it.

That'd be like having a grocery store that doesn't want to carry Milk, but since so many people want it, they carry it, and then charge you the ridiculous price of $50 a gallon for the "privilege" of them offering the milk that you need which they don't want to carry. This is more or less the same thing.

The other possibility is that they see this as a cash cow by gullible people willing to pay the ridiculous rates for the "convenience" of mobile broadband. Either way, the cell companies are happily gouging us, and regrettably enough, end users are more than happily paying those prices whether they want to or not. Honestly, I'm really stunned that nobody has started a pitchfork and torch brigade about this by now, save for maybe a handful of power users. Talk about the bleating masses, aka the sheeple. (rolls eyes)