Vodafone's new dongles and data deals are good, but where's the MiFi?

I’m pleased to see Vodafone UK is still innovating with mobile broadband. Today they’re launching some new monthly price plans, thus:

– £15/month, which now gets you 3GB of data, along with basic anti-virus, spyware and 2GB of data backup

– £20/month, which now gets you 4GB of data and a new ‘Premium PC Security Pack’ — useful if you’re a PC user. The pack includes anti-virus, spyware protection, firewall, parental controls, email spam filtering and unlimited backup and restore. Not bad, not bad!

Pay As You Go gets a bit of news today as well. The new K3565 ‘TopUp and Go’ USB Modem stick (3.6Mbps) gets 3GB of data, valid for 30 days, for just £34.99. That is a really, really good deal, especially if you’re arriving into the UK for a few weeks and need a decent PAYG data solution. If you’re partial to a bit of style, you can also pick up a blue or a pink USB stick, thus:

There’s more information here.

The one thing that’s missing from Vodafone’s line-up is a MiFi device like the Novatel MiFi unit. They’ve got MiFi over at Vodafone DE. If you’re thinking about MiFi, by the way, I strongly recommend this Novatel unit. I’ve been testing it for months.

I know of quite a few 3 customers who are seriously enjoying their 3UK MiFI service (here’s a vid) so I’m quite disappointed Vodafone UK hasn’t quite jumped on the bandwagon yet.

Until then you can get the Novatel MiFi unit unlocked for £214 from the likes of Expansys.