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 > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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