[SLL] mobile data plans?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Sat, 30 May 2009, William Kreuter wrote:

> rhagg> If your just doing email, SMS, an
> rhagg> surfing for general use, my vote would
> rhagg> be the iphone, at&t.
> 
> If I'm not around a free hotspot, I still use
> the built-in 9600-baud modem in my
> Cingular-AT&T phone.  It's part of the GSM
> standard.  It rarely gives 9.6kbps, and
> sometimes won't handshake at all -- but it
> costs effectively zero since it's charged
> against the voice-minute allowance which I
> never exceeed.  And, for text-based e-mail,
> checking when my Metro bus is coming or like
> use, low speed is fine.

Thank you Rob, Rohit, and Billy for your feedback. I finally got my Nokia 
E71 (using AT&T) tethered to laptop using pppd. (I used USB, but will try 
bluetooth later.) I cancelled my $80.03/month Verizon Broadband service.

I am curious, how do you get it to use the free built-in 9600-baud modem?



  Jeremy C. Reed

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