Reviews:
 ·Google Voice
·Junction Networks
·Callcentric
 ·T-Mobile US
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| Seems very open and honest of Bandwidth.com so far! I like their policies! They indeed seem reasonable and fair, and very straightforward for the technologically aware population.
One thing to note regarding cellular use:
one megabyte of data is equivalent to
two minutes of voice talk time, which is equivalent to
six SMS text messages
I think that's pretty telling of how the SMS prices are way overblown. Can either send probably around 200 to 2000 SMS messages over the cellular data connection with something like Google Voice, or 6 messages over the standard cellular text-message means? Heh. |
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Reviews:
·VOIPo
·Callcentric
| I like the idea, but public wifi is painful to use in some cases. I have been at many hotels and public areas that require you to log in via a portal before wifi works. It won't be like roaming from place to place on cellular. If you have to accept wifi terms every place you go, it will turn a lot of people off. |
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 NickDPremium
join:2000-11-17
Princeton Junction, NJ
 ·Comcast
| reply to ConstantineM
So according to them, the average text message is 174762.66666 letters long.
With a standard 160 character text message limit, 6 texts are 960 bytes, round it up to a kilobyte after overhead. A kilobyte is not a megabyte. 1 megabyte of data is equal to more than 6000 texts since texts aren't always 160 characters each, they're usually much less.
And I doubt the quality of a voice call is 32 kbps each direction. |
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| said by NickD:So according to them, the average text message is 174762.66666 letters long.
With a standard 160 character text message limit, 6 texts are 960 bytes, round it up to a kilobyte after overhead. A kilobyte is not a megabyte. 1 megabyte of data is equal to more than 6000 texts since texts aren't always 160 characters each, they're usually much less.
And I doubt the quality of a voice call is 32 kbps each direction.
Yeah I had to laugh at the whole "1 MB = 6 text messages". In what universe does a text message require 160 KB? I think there was an error by a factor of 1000. |
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| reply to scott2020
There are apps in the Android market that will streamline the authentication on public WiFi access points, making it fully automatic in many cases. It's not part of the Republic Wireless package, but with that your phone should be able to use most public WiFi spots anytime you stumble into one, w/o needing to login each time. |
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