AT&T Mobility unveils no-contract pay-as-you-go data plan with new 3G portables

AT&T’s mobility, the new DataConnect Pass was launched with its first options for prepaid data yesterday. The plan gives those with built-in 3G in a notebook the option of paying for just a short stint of data without having to commit to a contract. Its rates carry a premium for the freedom at $15 for 100MB of data over the course of a day, $30 for a week pass with 300MB of data and a full month with 1GB for $50.

It’s unknown if or when prepaid data will be available for stand-alone modems; it already exists for the iPad. Read more of this post