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i have been using the t-mobile data service for several months. works ok. setup took three days of help calls.
typical speeds around 22k, though they claim "up to" 56 k.
Price is $20. for unlimited, added to the voice plan. The phone is a sony-ericsson (s-e)t610, and the connection to the computer is via usb port and special s-e $50. usb cable. There are two included cds required, one for the usb cable and one for the phone. i had also used several motorola phones that had a direct usb cable, they worked ok too, same 22k speed, but the motorola software always disconnected me after 5 minutes of online non-use.
Both the s-e and mot phones would ring and show and allow an incoming voice call while connected.
T-mobile also has a $39. plan for unlimited data only, without a voice plan. But they let you make/receive voice calls on a per-call $ basis. Requires another phone with its own # and sim card.
So far i haven't seen t-mobile offer the edge speeds around 300k, nor higher, unless you get the special PCMCIA card.
For Cingular and ATT etc unlimited, read the rate schedule carefully. For the $80. plan you get unlimited BROWSING, NOT unlimited downloads. They have limits on the downloads, and they charge for overages. | |
Dr Demento
I Vant Blud
join:2002-01-02
Denville, NJ
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The chance of Cellular based mediums to even compete with DSL, Cable or other landline forms of broadband died at, least for half a decade maybe, when Nextel dumped FLASH-OFDM. The fact is cellular companies simply do not want to directly compete with other broadband solutions. They are not correctly packaged to deal with broadband nor any forms of going onto the internet for that matter, except for maybe Verizon's unlimited data transfer package for cell phones. But I am not sure if that applies to EVDO-3G and it is way too expensive to even justify its barely IDSN like speeds, in fact you say it is priced about the same as ISDN. Perhaps if VOIP catches on more with IDT getting their POT styled VOIP through Wi-Fi receivers out of trials with maybe Vonage or AT&T joining in we will not see many more WiFi cell phones. | |
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