Verizon Wireless has announced its prepaid mobile data plans for most of the Smart-phones and some feature phones it sells. Before this it was possible to buy prepaid voice plans but not data plans.

Prepaid accounts for close to two-thirds of all new connections amongst all major US carriers. Given this situation, all carriers are drawing their attention to prepaid data plans. The fledgling economy is forcing telcos to enrich their pre-paid offerings.

Earlier, ClearWire, a 4G service provider majority owned by Sprint-Nextel announced a flat-price prepaid mobile data  brand for its Wimax network called  Rover. Virgin Mobile also announced a $40 contract-free data plan last month.  AT&T customers can also get  pre-paid data plans, just like their contract counterparts.