[Cialug] low speed cellphone data plan

David Champion dave at dchamp.net
Wed Aug 26 15:46:01 CDT 2009


I had GPRS (pron: Jeepers) on my T-Mobile Treo 600 a few years ago. It 
wasn't really very cheap, but it certainly was low-speed. I don't know 
if any of the US GSM carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T), still offer GPRS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gprs

-dc

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> A while back I was reading about a low-cost data service that used 
> cellular networks. From the context I gathered it was widely deployed 
> and gets speeds in the range of 32k to 64k and was priced inexpensively.
>
> Does anyone know what this service is called and who sells it? I was 
> thinking it was called GPRS but when I search for that I don't find 
> what I'm looking for.
>
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