Re: [PLUG] Through cell phone to Internet

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

Jason Costomiris wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 01:11:17PM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> : On Sunday 30 June 2002 11:25 am, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> : > I routinely do GPRS dialup over an IR connection to my Nokia 8390
> : > (GSM on VoiceStream).  Works great.
> :
> : How does voicestream bill for this?  Under my plan, Sprint charges me
> : for the minutes, same as voice.  (Under their cheaper plans, they
> : actually charge more than voice.)
> 
> Depends on the data style you're doing.
> 
> CSD  - 9600 bps - billed by minute, same as voice
> GPRS - 56k - billed by amount of data transmitted
> 
> On VS, you can get a 5MB/mo GPRS allocation for $20/mo or 20MB/mo for
> $40/mo.  I use the 5MB plan, but usually only do compressed SSH sessions
> or visit the WAP version of my webmail application from my iPaq...


And I saw mention of a $5-10 1MB/mo plan recently on the website, which
seems kind of neat.  Although other info implied it might not allow the
same connection types as the pricier plans.

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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