I like that in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r10535927 en Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:50:26 EDT Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:50:26 EDT Re: I like that http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10548538 pcscdma : It's $.002/kB for the connection card and $.01/kB for the phone without a Vision plan.

For the old 2G 14.4kbps circuit switched phones it is $.39/minute + airtime without the Wireless Web plan. With the Wireless Web plan it is just airtime. Night and weekend minutes can count for your minutes. 3G phones seem to not be able to get provisioned for this. I've already tried.

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I know it's kinda off topic I just don't want someone ending up with a $39,936 Sprint bill for playing around and downloading 100mb worth of stuff over a month! ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10542156 Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:31:20 EDT Re: I like that http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10542127 tcp1 : Not to hijack a thread -- but I'd make sure to preface this (Zunger; this info is for YOU) with the fact that Sprint, by definition, does NOT allow this. You don't want to go around simply encouraging this to everyone.. The more people do this, the more Sprint will probably crack down!

By simply giving this "tip" to someone who doesn't know about Sprint's handling of the whole thing, you're likely to get him into hot water..

So, the basic gist of it is.. Sprint does NOT allow you to use your phone as a modem on their 3G 1xRTT services. It is explicitly forbidden in their TOS. They do offer connection cards, which come with separate (expensive) plans.

HOWEVER. As shown above, it is *technically* possible.. And generally, as a rule, using it for OCCASIONAL use (and I'm not talking downloading divx's here.. Maybe a few dozen megabytes a month) won't get you hotlined.

Keep in mind, though, according to Sprint's TOS, that they can cancel your Vision (3G 1xRTT) service for this, and can charge you. You don't have to look far.. Over at sprintusers.com there was a woman who was charged $2800 by Sprint when she returned a phone to Best Buy that still had her Vision username in it.. [Did you know you can use Vision on a non-activated phone, with a valid Vision login? It's true!] Someone bought it, used it not-all-that-heavily; and Sprint socked her with the default $0.02/kb rate.

(1mb = 1024kb. Only 100mb = 102400 kb = $2048 @ $0.02/kb. Ouch!)

Granted, this is anectdotal, and apparently doesn't happen too often.. I'm not saying don't do it -- I do, now and then.. But keep in mind that when you're operating outside their TOS, a company like Sprint has rather wide leeway with how they can react to that.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10542127 Fri, 18 Jun 2004 02:25:14 EDT Re: I like that http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10541359 anon : Just get the data cable for your phone from FutureDial, connect it to your phone/USB port, load the USB drivers, and then create a dial-up networking entry with any username and password using the telephone number #777. Bam! You got full access. The person I did this setup for usually gets about 80Kbps in the area, but surfing the web seems faster as images and web pages are compressed on the PCS network.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10541359 Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:13:03 EDT Re: I like that http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10536988 Zunger : how the hell did you accomplish this? I cant find anything about it on google :-(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10536988 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:06:36 EDT Re: I like that http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10536824 pcscdma :
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... free 128kbps that i pull by connecting through my Sprint PCS phone.

Whoa. Now careful there. ;) You don't wanna get hotlined for violating your ToS. ;)
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10536824 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:50:06 EDT Re: I like that http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10536814 SaBo7Ge : Yeah we got it, but we still can't get 1.5mbps dsl from ACS .. go figure.. Up until last december Anchorage residents were paying almost $100/mo for 960/320kbps dsl from ACS which after overhead is really 768/270kbps...

The competition from the CLEC Cable ISP is a joke..
»gci.com/promos/hypernet/hypernet_yhn6.htm

Wireless sounds great but paying $100/mo for it on top of purchasing a $400 network card is a little rich for most people here.. ACS should spend more money deploying RT's on their loops and increasing speed to their DSL offerings before working on wireless... Here's hoping this reaches someone out there..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10536814 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:49:19 EDT I like that http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10535927 Anonuser : I like that, would switch my come connection to something like that, since i am always on the go, and always have my laptop, would love those speeds.

But for now, will stick with my free 128kbps that i pull by connecting through my Sprint PCS phone.

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