[BTM] Palm Tungsten T and T68i - dialup connection (OT?)

[Craig Butler]

What a scam from AT&T.

Last year when I was living in Rome I used my T39 via Omnitel's GPRS 
service for a cost of 10 Euro 33 cents for each six weeks of service.

Total time online:  558 hours 6 minutes, 4 seconds
Total Data Sent: 157,072,972 bytes
Total Date Received: 609,617,189 bytes

All that use for under 31 Euro! (over 750 MB!).


On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 04:13  AM, Mark O'Brien wrote:

> On 6/5/03 9:51 PM, "Terry Cheah" <terrycheah at pd.jaring.my> wrote:
>
>> Which is cheaper the GPRS or the normal dial up vis HSCD?
>
> Depends on your usage. GPRS charges by the amount of data you download 
> and
> upload. You can be connected all the time and not pay a dime...as long 
> as
> you don't check your mail or go to any websites :-). I had GPRS with 
> AT&T,
> demo'd a few websites from my TiBook (Dlink BT adapter to the T68i) 
> during a
> one hour business meeting, went over my measly 1MB /month allotment, 
> and got
> slammed with a $70 charge!
>
> If you only want to use your Tungsten (or whatever device you're 
> using) to
> check email and you won't be downloading large attachments, it's 
> probably
> cheaper to dial up via CSD at 9600 bps and then sign off.
>
> I canceled my GPRS plan and went with an unlimited data plan and the 
> Merlin
> PC card with SprintPCS for my off-site connectivity.
>
> Mark