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Setting up dial-up connections via cell phone
Authored by: xpeed on Sep 15, '03 03:32:13PM

if anyone out there has a 1xRTT (3G, Express Network, whatever...) enabled cell phone and you get yourself a usb data cable, you can probably connect to EN for free as soon as you add it to your account...
EN is available to most national VZW plans as a free add-on now...
i use it to connect my ibook 500 (dual usb) through my kyocera 7135 to the internet and its WAY faster than the regular #777 dial-up...

check out smartphonesource.com and search for more details...

good luck,
mike



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competition is everything
Authored by: PeterDie on Sep 15, '03 06:58:54PM

Fairly primitive continent, the Americas, as regards to cell phone networks. In the Netherlands, I found myself a good mobile deal:
1. Signed up with mobile phone company: got one Siemens S55 (TripleBand, Infrared, Bluetooth, serial PC-cable and camera included) for free, no entry fee or admin costs, first 3 month 5 euro off subscription fee.
2. Bluetooth in Siemens works flawlessly with OSX, (also with iSync, no need for Palm for me) found myself a Siemens GPRS modem script
3 entered some info in network preferences (ATN name in phone number field; that's a killer)
Got GPRS whereever I might go, with $35 USB bluetooth dongle.
GPRS: always on internet for 1 euro 50 per Mb data transfer. Speeds: didn't check yet, but pages load comparable to 14K4 modem speeds.
My subscription fee is 12 euro 50 per month, for that i can call 500 minutes (that's over 8 hours per month) to landline based phones and other O2 subscribers. Other mobile phones: 15 eurocent per minute.

Yeeeehaaaww!!!



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