Saw something recently (/. maybe) about Austin becoming or being one big
hotspot, so if you have your wireless laptop don't keep it in its bag.
Maybe there's a voip/wireless phone solution...

/* Quoth Jason Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 at 08:57 +0000
   in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */

> 
> Continuing my strange tradition of visiting places I've never been, with
> neither plans nor advance notice, I just bought a plane ticket to Austin,
> Texas, leaving Saturday afternoon.  If you know of cool things to do in Austin
> (or cool people who'll let me crash at their place for a while), please mail
> me off-list.
> 
> But my other question is this: what's the cheapest way to have cell phone
> access while I'm there?  It was indispensible last year in Boston, since
> that's how I got in touch with the people I met, but I ended up paying the
> thieves at Sprint over $100 and a whole lot of headaches to get that one month
> of service.
> 
> Anybody have a phone with nationwide coverage that they'd be willing to rent
> me for 2 weeks?  Does your plan make it easy to add and remove extra phones?  
> Do you have a phone I could borrow and connect with my own service to someone
> other than Sprint?  (I'd happily trade you the Sprint phone I was forced to
> buy...)  Know of good per-minute plans?  (Last year they seemed too expensive,
> especially since I actually end up using a lot of minutes calling people I
> just met to try and organize fun things to do).
> 
>                                       -J
> 
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