Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) plans to package its own branded prepaid mobile broadband service with new HP Elitebook business laptops.

HP will resell service from Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel's CDMA EV-DO service, and will offer what it calls DataPass service plans that will start at $5 for 75 MB of data over five hours, $10 for 150 MB of data over three days, $20 for 450 MB of data over 15 days, or $30 for 1 GB of data over 30 days. Purchasers of HP's Elitebook laptops can select an HP DataPass or use an existing mobile broadband service plan from Sprint or another operator.

An HP spokesman told PC World that the company does not have greater aspirations to be a wireless service provider but is only offering this service as a convenience to its customers.

For more:
- see this release
- read this PC World article
- see this Engadget article

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