Ask HN: Prepaid mobile hotspots with no expiration? 3G, 4G, or LTE.

Re:Ask HN: Prepaid mobile hotspots with no expiration? 3G, 4... by win_ini on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @12:00AM (#6962244)

Depending on your level of risk taking, you may be interested in something like this from eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MOBILE-HOTSPOT-FLASHED-TO-VERIZON-PP...

The units are flashed and use Verizon's prepaid Internet plans but are effectively unlimited - if you prepay your account for a year - you get unlimited 3G data during that time for about $100/yr.

I couldn't quite believe when I stumbled across it - but it reminds me of hacked satellite encryption back in the day. Hard to believe this would actually work - or keep working for a long time - but based on some questioning - these eBay vendors stand behind their products....

Perhaps someone has a better idea of how these actually function....I don't.

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Re:Ask HN: Prepaid mobile hotspots with no expiration? 3G, 4... by rahimnathwani on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @10:54PM (#6965207)

They may be using a plan which was not intended for mi-fi or smartphone use. I guess they reprogram the IMEI or equivalent of Sim ID of a 'basic phone' onto the Android phone.

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