[Cialug] low speed cellphone data plan

[Allen Kiddoo]

My bad. You right- Boost is Nextel/Sprint. And yes it is iDEN- moto only.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Jonathan C.
Bailey<jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:
> 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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