| Data Service On the north side of Chicago, there is still no fiber data.
I/we do not watch TV, so I will NOT buy a cable/phone/data package.
I looked into a dish-based data connex, but have no clear line of sight to the top of the buildings in downtown.
I will pay for POTS, fiber to my door, but not a penny for
a cable system dedicated to TV.
No one offers a package with no cable TV and no phone service.
So I pull a LOT of data on this Cingular/ATT data card.
My employer pays the bill on this, and the card works almost everywhere I've ever tried, except mobile in a car in Iowa.... |
| I am an independent IT consultant and travel a-LOT. Thus, my AT&T Aircard is my ONLY internet connection. It aint cheap; $69/mo on top of my voice plan, and another $30 to keep my cell phone connected, too, because I need maps, email, and text msgs even when I don't have my laptop. In total, about $200/mo with AT&T.
Last month, between VPN's, email attachments, program uploads and downloads, and maintaining my web servers remotely I used up 42GB easy. I looked at my bill and AT&T is still honoring the "unlimited" plan I signed up for. AT&T network connections are spotty in some areas (speed drops to about dial-up) but still usable. The areas where I need it most I still average about 1,250Kbps; pretty good.
If Sprint is going to cap, and you are worried about exceeding the measly 5GB limit, check out AT&T. |
