Re: [PLUG] mobile access to internet

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 01:39:53PM -0400, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> I was thinking of calling an ISP in the city where I'll be 
> (Colorado Springs) and seeing if they'll sell me a dial-up for 
> a week with minimum fuss (don't need SMTP, mail account, web 
> page, or any other such overhead).

You could get an account with a provider who outsources their dialup
service through a national provider like MegaPOP.  They have a Colorado
Springs phone number (see
http://www.megapop.com/locations/colorado.html).  I know that Netaxs
(Full disclosure: I'm a former employee, but I don't speak for them),
locally uses them.  So does Speakeasy.

Or there are plenty of other ISPs that do national service.  UUnet, etc.
Just make sure that they have a local number where you're going
(obviously).

-- 
Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others,  we should
be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and
this we should do freely and generously."          -- Benjamin Franklin


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