> The problem is getting pre-paid GPRS access to anywhere on the net OUTSIDE > of T-Mobile's silly "T-Zones" walled garden. >
Allan, do you know of any GSM carrier that offers GPRS data on prepaid plans? I've never come across it before not that I've looked for it Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +1-917-207-3420 Mb +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 16 February 2007 2:47 PM > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > Subject: Re: openmoko and pre-paid cards > > I'm going to chime in here again on this: > > Here in the US, getting pre-paid voice service via a T-Mobile sim is no > problem exactly as Mary illustrates. > > The problem is getting pre-paid GPRS access to anywhere on the net OUTSIDE > of T-Mobile's silly "T-Zones" walled garden. > > ~90% of the amazing applications that will be written for the OpenMoko/Neo > platform will involve pulling and pushing data to and from your handset via > GPRS. > > T-Mobile or Sprint(??) must be induced to offer a prepaid GPRS service if > the OpenMoko/Neo platform is to be as fully successful as possible. > > If this prepaid GPRS access fails to materialize, has anyone done any work > on creating a working cellular voice modem that could communicate via a > personal dialup gateway at home? > > Alan McSwain > > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:50:44 -0700 > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > Subject: Re: openmoko and pre-paid cards > > > Mary Stovel writes: > > >Cingular C139.) I asked at the Cingular store and the T-Mobile > >store... that if I brought in my own "unlocked" phone, could I get a > >SIM card without buying their phone... they said "yes". I asked if > >that applied to the prepaid plans and they said "yes". > > My experience here was almost the same as yours -- the difference > being that all the plans I saw had a bottom-end phone that they'd give > you for "free" (in quotes since the plan subsidizes the phone). They > told me I couldn't get an additional discount for not taking any phone > at all. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com - Microsoft(r) Exchange solutions from a leading provider - > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
