in the states- for voicestream- the pc card- is your wireless connection- you don't need a cell phone. You don't even need a phone account- but the pc data card with antenna is 299.99 and the laptop connection is 39.99 a month. you can fraudulantly use your phone as your dial up. But it will eventually catch up with you.
Oh and one last thing- as a commisioned sales person- can i just say that americans are too cheap to buy more expensive cell phones? The ericsson t68 is at 299.99 with a $50 mail in rebate and nobody wants to buy it. Everyone wants free, what else can you give me for free, can you give me a discount? if you guys really want nice cell phones- order it from japan or taiwan- you can get them off the black market- (BTW there's about 30,000 v60's running around that were from a stolen truck - they were going for $150.) and have the phone unlocked and use it with cingular/att gsm, or voicestream/tmobile. That's what half of my asian customers do. by the way gsm coverage in the us sucks- is really limited- but growing. 1900 mhz us/900 europe/1800 asia however there's been talk in the industry about the world switching to cdma?- which is what verizon is on.
i work for one of the "said" companies... Ericsson/Sony just came out with the Ericsson t68 with color screen, blue tooth technology including a camera that attatches to the phone to send photos between certain models. okay so i admit- i was too lazy to read everyone's comments and the article closely- but for all those who are writing about landline costs- in other countries- in most countries like china it's harder to apply for a land line than a cell phone. In other countries such as germany prepaid is SAID to be less expensive because you aren't charged for incoming calls . Wireless data to your phone by far the cheapest company to go through- is Voicestream. 2.99 for 1MB, but hooking your phone to your laptop using istream is 39.99. (don't tell anyone but you can use Motorola p280/v60, samsung q105 as your modem for dial up- it's fraud though) However Verizon gets cheaper by the megabyte as you use more- and they have hotmail. Personally wireless data to your phone sucks at this point. I've used it for reverse look up and mapquest. Voicestream's i stream connection from laptop to phone- is open at 57.65 k but it transfers at about 15k. just to let you know.
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in the states- for voicestream- the pc card- is your wireless connection- you don't need a cell phone. You don't even need a phone account- but the pc data card with antenna is 299.99 and the laptop connection is 39.99 a month. you can fraudulantly use your phone as your dial up. But it will eventually catch up with you.
Oh and one last thing- as a commisioned sales person- can i just say that americans are too cheap to buy more expensive cell phones? The ericsson t68 is at 299.99 with a $50 mail in rebate and nobody wants to buy it. Everyone wants free, what else can you give me for free, can you give me a discount? if you guys really want nice cell phones- order it from japan or taiwan- you can get them off the black market- (BTW there's about 30,000 v60's running around that were from a stolen truck - they were going for $150.) and have the phone unlocked and use it with cingular/att gsm, or voicestream/tmobile. That's what half of my asian customers do. by the way gsm coverage in the us sucks- is really limited- but growing. 1900 mhz us/900 europe/1800 asia however there's been talk in the industry about the world switching to cdma?- which is what verizon is on.
uh correction i have a headache- your LINE for connection not modem... get off the freaking internet and leave everyone alone.
i work for one of the "said" companies... Ericsson/Sony just came out with the Ericsson t68 with color screen, blue tooth technology including a camera that attatches to the phone to send photos between certain models. okay so i admit- i was too lazy to read everyone's comments and the article closely- but for all those who are writing about landline costs- in other countries- in most countries like china it's harder to apply for a land line than a cell phone. In other countries such as germany prepaid is SAID to be less expensive because you aren't charged for incoming calls . Wireless data to your phone by far the cheapest company to go through- is Voicestream. 2.99 for 1MB, but hooking your phone to your laptop using istream is 39.99. (don't tell anyone but you can use Motorola p280/v60, samsung q105 as your modem for dial up- it's fraud though) However Verizon gets cheaper by the megabyte as you use more- and they have hotmail. Personally wireless data to your phone sucks at this point. I've used it for reverse look up and mapquest. Voicestream's i stream connection from laptop to phone- is open at 57.65 k but it transfers at about 15k. just to let you know.