[Ti] Titanium/Cell Phone/Internet Service

[Sam Hotchkiss]

On 4/17/03 2:28 AM, "Tarik Bilgin" <tarik at opalblue.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 08:15  am, Steve Wozniak wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Most carriers (Cingular, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile) allow you to use the
>> higher speed GPRS (about 45Kbaud transfer rate). But you pay per
>> megabyte, and if you plan a lot of usage, it costs a lot. You may have
>> to get GPRS modem scripts for the phone - I'm not sure if the built-in
>> scripts cover this usage. Again, you use Apple's standard PPP dialing
>> programs, but the name/password and phone number to dial vary by
>> carrier and can be hard to determine, even with the carriers'
>> [usually] worthless customer, sales and technical support.
> 
> I'm using a GPRS (in the UK) plan with my T68i over bluetooth for when
> I travel. I pay 4 pounds (about 6 USD) per month for 1 megabyte of
> transfers.

If you're interested in this topic, there is a mailing list dedicated
entirely to hooking up macs to cell phones:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maccellphone

I just joined yesterday, but they look like they have some good info