Re: [SLUG] Wireless broadband

From: Robert Snyder (robertsnyder@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 15:55:58 EDT


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:19:00 -0700, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:57:26 -0400, Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 25 October 2004 02:30 pm, you wrote:
> > > T-mobile
> > > 19.99 unlimited data
> > >
> > > GPRS with EDGE Rollout as we speak.
> > >
> > > Uses Serria Wireless Aircards.
> >
> > What's the module for Sierra Aircards? Does T-Mobile have a charge for the
> > card also? -Eric
> >
> Purchase the card directly from Sierrawireless, if you get it from the
> provider is
> is branded and if you decide to change providers or travel outside the USA you
> can not just pop in a SIM card in order to switch providers.

Tmobile does not provider locks there serria wireless cards. You can
even get the phones unlocked from tmobile if you been a customer for
at least 90 days.
>
> That is the big advantage of GSM/GPRS/EDGE as a international standard if your
> radio is not branded you just swap out the SIM card with one on the
> local network
> and you are good to go, when I was in Nigeria that is exactly what I
> did with both
> my c-phone (also a GSMGPRS phone) and my data card. My call cost went from
> $3/min to less than $1/min for calls to the USA from there. (Your
> international roam
> will eat you alive if you use it cheaper just to get a SIM in the
> country you are at)
>
> Indeed when you travel through Europe you will find that they sell the
> cards right
> at the point of entry into the country.
>
>
> --
> Chuck Hast
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
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