{"id":385137,"date":"2010-03-03T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27360"},"modified":"2010-03-03T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:30:52","slug":"virgin-mobile-increases-value-for-prepaid-broadband-data-buckets-%e2%80%94-60-for-5gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385137","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mobile increases value for prepaid broadband data buckets \u2014 $60 for 5GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Mobile\u2019s Broadband2Go prepaid 3G data service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2009\/06\/09\/virgin-mobile-usa-offers-broadband2go-service-with-no-contract\/\">made a splash last summer<\/a> by offering no-contract plans that came close to competing with two-year offerings from the likes of Sprint, Verizon, AT&amp;T, and T-Mobile. The major drawback was that the top plan, at $60, only allowed for 1GB of data usage, whereas you\u2019d get 5GB on a contract plan.<\/p>\n<p>Well Virgin Mobile\u2019s just given everyone a big reason to go month-to-month by upping the data allotment of its $60 plan to a full 5GB. It\u2019s increased the data buckets on two of its other, lower-priced plans as well.<\/p>\n<p>The base $10 plan still gets you 100MB of data that must be used within 10 days, but the $20 plan now gets you 300MB instead of 250MB and the $40 plan now gets you 1GB instead of 600MB. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2009\/06\/09\/virgin-mobile-usa-offers-broadband2go-service-with-no-contract\/\">previously reported<\/a>, Broadband2Go uses Sprint\u2019s EVDO Rev. A network.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mobile Broadband Service - Virgin Mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmobileusa.com\/mobile-broadband\">Mobile Broadband Service<\/a> [Virgin Mobile]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KOKHxkklIBNWKzuuQzdRZOECxqk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KOKHxkklIBNWKzuuQzdRZOECxqk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KOKHxkklIBNWKzuuQzdRZOECxqk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KOKHxkklIBNWKzuuQzdRZOECxqk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=7Fq0RYB70pw:HYQorljR55c:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=7Fq0RYB70pw:HYQorljR55c:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=7Fq0RYB70pw:HYQorljR55c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=7Fq0RYB70pw:HYQorljR55c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=7Fq0RYB70pw:HYQorljR55c:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Mobile\u2019s Broadband2Go prepaid 3G data service made a splash last summer by offering no-contract plans that came close to competing with two-year offerings from the likes of Sprint, Verizon, AT&amp;T, and T-Mobile. The major drawback was that the top plan, at $60, only allowed for 1GB of data usage, whereas you\u2019d get 5GB on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}