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Authored by: pfooosk on Dec 14, '02 09:22:53PM

Yes, that's true. As long as your doing a plain-old dial-up connection, (aka circuit-switched) you only incur charges against your monthly minute bucket.

Now, to make it really interesting, try hooking yourself up to the Net via GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). Along with being packet switched, you should see speeds of up to 56kbps; it really depends on whether you're moving around.

In order to enable this though, you're going to have to enable another modem in your network settings. Since I don't have the phone here, I can recommend a site with most of the how-to's you could need: http://www.novamedia.de/pages_e/e_produkte.html. (Scroll down a bit.)

The other site is a UK site: http://www.taniwha.org.uk/
These guys have all sorts of solutions available that should get you to use GPRS. Note that for this, you're going to have to have T-Zones enabled.

And don't even think of asking T-Mobile for help with your config. As far as they are concerned, GPRS and T-Zones only works with PC's.

Good luck, and post your results if you try!
pk



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