Do you stream music or radio talk shows?
Typically the no-contract wireless providers advertise ‘unlimited data’ but the fine print terms ‘data’ as internet surfing, emails but not streaming video or music/radio. As such many folks get their data throttled once they have hit 1 - 1.5 GB in a month.
AT&T has a new no contract service - GO Phone - which you choose the data amount...you can save some money with that. Can’t set up a hot spot, though...
Good luck!
The app PDANet+ will give you a hot spot on an Android phone without needing to have the phone company to turn it on. Everything will work except the web. And you can get the web to work too if you know how to change the USER_AGENT string in Firefox.
What a country. People can pay $75,000 for a new BMW with one of the best radios available, and then use their cell phone for listening to music while driving.