No subscription required? What the hell do you call the $59.99 a month? Just a matter of semantics.Service fee,subscription,access charge,WHATEVER!!!
Thanks but no thanks.I'll stick with the free wi-fi hotspots that,anymore,are on practically every street corner.

Love this. You can drop the cable internet and take this with you to cabin on the weekends or have internet while on the road. Bravo. Just in time for Father's Day !!

I think the $59.99 a month is if you only pay $99 for the modem. If you pay $270, you can buy day passes for $15. I could see, however, paying for the card and the day passes, then finding out I would really be better off with the $60/month plan and being out the extra money for the hardware. I wonder if there's an option to convert and get credit.

Mary is right. You don't have to pay $59.99 a month, or in fact anything per month - you can just buy the router and use it with day passes. But as Mary also says, that might not make sense if you intend to use it more than four days per month! Alas, Verizon won't give you credit if you switch plans, as far as I know.

I currently pay $60 per month for access to Verizon EVDO using a PCCard. But most months I don't use it at all, not needed because I can connect at home or in the office or via another wi-fi connection. But then there are times like last month. For a week I was in a location with no wi-fi or ethernet Internet access. So the Verizon card was my only connection. My wife and I alternate use of the card, switching it between two notebooks so we can both connect but only one at a time.

This new device and the one-day passes are perfect for us. We can both maintain Internet access when it's otherwise not available and it will cost us much less than our current plan.

isn't that special! isn't that "perfect for us"!!!??
why you priviliged strutting "kcuf"s!
NOW blow duh trumpets:
what's this $15 "day pass"???
--HuuuuLLL--ooohh!!! Verizon? "free market" capitalist?? duuuuh . . . YES. &
when wireless services are 'nationalized' THEN and only then, will we all (even I, a homeless one!) have this magnificent expansion of free gabbing technology, affordably.
an' OMG!!! allll that INFORMOTION, ohmigotters; no mo books. use 'em for kindlin' right now!
sheesh, let's see, . . . hmmmm. oh ho, yeah: $15 for a day pass, that's "times" Ex number of days, say 15 days = aaah! yes, $225. Nothing at all . . . a mere pittance--so HO K-ACHE-KIE! gang--here we go,
. . . luvin' this trip-- to the cabin-- in the hills;
gee, aint that discretionary disposable income GREAT?
contemptible as the republican day is long, more like? no?
BUT MY DON'T WE LOVE US, AND TREAT US GOOOOOO-O-O-O-D!
and always rememvber this:
you don't HAVE TO pay that $15 a day, that's what's so good about, uuuh, what ??
about Murkia?
spit, ah rekkin'!

the last comment, gosh; the feller's rile hup! but not without reason, i suppose. one finds a short video [the Story of Stuff] quite revealing of the kind of world he's complaining about--a world that goes round and is decaying-- because the final and ultimate motive of all its "participants" is to be shoppers, to "consume."
--if they don't, then the system fails; and something else must take its place.
here's the link that explains this very forcefully:
http://storyofstuff.com/

The Story of Stuff--look at this video, and start thinking!!! we could change so much, and thus,
change,
so much.

Where can MiFi be purchased? There is not a word about it on Verizon's web site.

I've been trying to purchase a MiFi ever since it came out, and I mean ever since. I was in the Parker, Colorado store the day it became available.

So far, I've been to three different Verizon stores. None of then can seem to sell me one full price, which depending on the store you go to is either $269.99 or $399.99 and then activate it with the daypass feature. I would LOVE to get this thing. But only on a daypass. I would probably only use it 6 or 7 times a year so, any type of monthly commitment is out.

I have heard MANY folks in the tech community talk about the MiFi and how it is daypass compatible, including Andy Ihnatko, Leo Laporte and you Sasha . But if you actually go to their website and read about daypass, use of a MiFi is NOT mentioned.

Today was my last stab at trying to get one of these things and the manager at the store in Parker, Colorado said that there was NO WAY to get a MiFi activated on a daypass. This was because it was possible for up to 5 folks to use the hotspot capabilities and it was his belief that the company was attempting to cut out this possibility.

I find this hard to believe. Hypothetically, if 5 people connect to the router and they use it for a full month the bill is going to be around $450. The most expensive plan they currently offer is $60/mo. If those same 5 people got five separate accounts they would still only ring up charges of $300. If I were Verizon I would do everything in my power to get folks to sign up for daypass and use it every day of the month. That has to be the most profitible thing they could do.

Anyway, I'm bummed. I wanted to get this connectivity so I would have an emergency net connection whenever I needed it and for those very few times I travel and need a connection in "strange" offices.

I would urge folks to relate their luck with getting a daypass with this device. If I could somehow manage it I would probably swallow my disgust at the bull I've had to put up with so far and go ahead and signup.

Don't make the same mistake as me.

Fifteen dollar day passes are a hoax. I was excited when I saw Dave Pogue's review of the MiFI device. I'm an iPhone user with AT&T but MiFi is not available with them (yet). I went to a local Verizon store and bought a MiFi at full retail price ($269.99) with the intention of using day passes when I travel.

I spent several hours trying to "activate" my device via the Verizon web site and VZAccess software installed on my MacBook Pro. The web site disconnected at various times (sometimes right away, sometimes after entering my credit card number).

After hours of frustration I began calling Verizon Customer Service. After 10+ reps and 6 hours I was told by Verizon's Telesales group that unless I have a Verizon phone number / account, I CANNOT purchase a day pass for the device. There must be a Verizon phone number / account associated with the device. He was happy to set up a monthly recurring charge of $40 or $60 but said it would not work with a $15 dollar day pass, period. It doesn't seem smart to turn away new business (and it's not about subsidies....I payed retail for the device).

In my opinion the Verizon site is incredibly misleading and the reps give conflicting information....some said it definitely COULD be done, some said ABSOLUTELY not.

I was thinking of switching back to Verizon. After my experience today, NO WAY. And the MiFi is going back in the morning.