In a surprising move, HP announced that they have opened a MVNO operation in Japan. The company is renting network from Japan Communications (JCI), and offers its netbooks from $50 to $100, for customers who sign up to prepaid data service.
It could prove as a game-changing plan, and we’ve no doubts if proves successful, the California-based company will transfer the model to other countries, as well. We don’t any additional information at the moment, but we do know one thing – HP’s netbooks look super-cool. If I haven’t bought my Dell Mini 9 before the HP Mini 1000 series was unveiled, I would definitely grab one of those (most likely the Linux-powered one).
Anyway, we’re hoping this practice will work for HP and we’ll see other computer makers joining the wave, making the service more available due to increased competition. We’ll certainly watch this space…
[Via: jkOnTheRun]