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[Meg St. Clair]

On 12/30/02 9:28 PM, "Jack Rodgers" <jackrodgers at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 08:23  PM, Gecina at aol.com wrote:
> 
>>  I won't go
>> for their "Vision" as that is about $10 more.  Their phones have the
>> ability
>> to connect to the laptop as a modem.
> 
> The Vision service (3G) offers 50K connections vs 9K with the old PCS.
> Soon the 3G will be 1 Meg which puts our cellular connections about
> equal to Airport and close to DSL. And they are talking about faster.
> 
> The big problem with the 3G stuff is that everyone wants to charge for
> the megabyte downloaded which makes surfing expensive. I think Sprint
> offers an unlimited 3G for $100 a month which would be a real bargain
> for someone who needs it.
> 
> It's like AOL when it first started. Many of us ran up bills of $100
> without thinking about it, at least a few times. Then we slowed down
> our usage and now I have unlimited access with Earthlink for $22 a
> month. If Spaminator wasn't so good, I might go with a cheaper service.
> 
> Now, if I could only use the AirCard in my PC Card slot, I'd jump in
> and never look back.
> 
> Hopefully the prices will drop after all the easily motivated buy into
> sending pictures of dinner to each other...


Earthlink is actually offering Verizon Wireless's Express Network (3G) using
a Sierra Aircard 555, which, as far as I have been able to determine, won't
work on even Macs with PC card slots.

VZW offers a $99/mo unlimited, megabyte and some plans that just measure by
time, starting at $35/mo for 150 minutes. I agree, it's still more expensive
than I am willing to pay for, even with my employee discount. When it was
first introduced, you could get it on any plan for an additional $35/month
and usage was measured in airtime, not megabytes which was pretty cool.

I don't think that it's selling to the general public as well as the company
would like (big with corporate clients, though) so prices may come down but
I'm not holding my breath.

Meg
Any opinions expressed in this email are my own and not my employer's.