On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Sidney Cammeresi wrote: > Well there are two parts you get from a cellular operator: network > access and PSTN origination/termination. If I'm providing my own > network connection into T-Mobile and am not using T-Mobile's expensive > GSM network to carry my phone calls (of course, coming in over the > Internet has a non-zero cost), I should get a discount. Huh? The Wi-Fi is for web browsing.. you don't touch T-Mobile at all while you are Wi-Fi. IE, my new PDA has both WiFi and EDGE.. whenever I'm around an AP for Wi-Fi, I use that instead, since it's a heck of a lot faster. > Sprint, Verizon, et al want you to move in for like $40-80/mo for the > privilege of hitting the Internet from one computer, which is just kooky > talk because it's not cable or DSL, and I'm not going to use it the same > way. I might go back to one of them when they grow a brain re selling > data. Well, at least it's a couple mbits of bandwidth from them, with lower latency.. I'm really looking forward to when Cingular builds their 3G network into the area - 3.8mbit - woohoo! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------