Mobile data keeps getting cheaper. You can now get 1GB per month from pretty much any network for under $30, often including the price of the wireless modem.
The exception, of course, is Telstra, who are banking on the fact that their NextG network is superior to the other carrier’s offerings that it keeps its prices at a premium to put it politely.
The good news is that even Telstra is starting to come to the mobile data pricing party, although they’re still waiting in their car out the front, waiting for everyone to come to them rather than go inside and be social.