In US the situation is starting to improve. T-Mobile for example offers lower priced plans for non contract / non subsidized devices. However that's about it - all others don't have such options.
Posted Jan 3, 2013 6:54 UTC (Thu) by frazier (guest, #3060)
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T-Mobile has a $30 no voice all data plan that is tempting for an information dork like me who wants mobile Internet but no mobile phone. No contract, no device subsidy.
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Posted Jan 5, 2013 23:39 UTC (Sat) by liam (subscriber, #84133)
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Do you have a link to this plan? The closest plan I can find to what you describe gives you 100 min talk and 5GB full speed data for $30. Was that what you had in mind?