"Soon", huh? You can already buy various netbooks here (Austria) for "free", €1 or so as long as they get to lock you into a contract for 2 years. examples (li

"Soon", huh? You can already buy various netbooks here (Austria) for "free", €1 or so as long as they get to lock you into a contract for 2 years. examples (links all in German): A1: €0 up front, €29/mo; €79 up front for shorter than 2 year contract: http://www.a1.net/privat/netbook http://www.a1.net/privat/netbook T-Mobile: €0 up front, €25/mo: http://shop.t-mobile.at/2151810010/1_1_3_5/3883f3fce5c87fc0999a29c4eef9af01/10011/index.html&intTab=1 http://shop.t-mobile.at/2151810010/1_1_3_5/3883f3fce5c87fc09... that works out to about €600-700. Stand-alone netbooks go for around €350-400 typically, so you'll have to use about €200-350 worth of the data plan over the course of 2 years. Unless this is their only connection to the internet, I very much doubt most people will use it that much.