[Cialug] low speed cellphone data plan

[Jonathan C. Bailey]

I never knew Boost *ever* used T-Mo... I believe they're still iDEN which means Nextel/Sprint in the states...


-Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Kiddoo" <adk at 52761.com>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:10:25 PM GMT -05:00 Colombia
Subject: Re: [Cialug] low speed cellphone data plan

I had boost a few months ago. Did not have the data plan. You can get
all you can eat plan for $50/mo. But phones are only motorola and will
not tether that I could find. Don't get near a corn field- no
coverage. T-Mobile is the carrier.

You can get the Verizon MiFi for $40 but very limited download. They
do have the best coverage area.

Allen Kiddoo

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Nathan C. Smith<nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> You can get a data-capable phone from boost-mobile and get low speed internet on it.  I'm not sure which phones support it any more so Google is your friend.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:46 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] low speed cellphone data plan
>
> 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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