sprint mobile broadband card

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:36:26 -0400, Brutus wrote
(in article <PLCdnXQSjdAWLZ_bnZ2dnUVZ_sOknZ2d@comcast.com>):

> Subject: Re: sprint mobile broadband card
> From: "Brutus" <brutus@freetidbet.net>
> Date: Yesterday 12:36 PM
> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs
>
>
> "Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
> news:etu22s$ghl$1@aioe.org...
>> At 22 Mar 2007 12:31:28 +0000 P.Schuman wrote:
>>> is there any way to get a card & unlimited data service
>>> for only a couple of months,
>>> say for a summer road trip ?
>>
>> Sure, get the card and plan with a two-year contract, then cancel and pay
>> the $200 cancellation fee.
>>
>> The fee is much cheaper than keeping an unneeded $60-80 plan for 20 extra
>> months.
>>
>
> Isn't it interesting that people think that all companies are out to gouge
> them? If people don't want contracts then go pre-paid. Unfortunately I am
> not aware of any on data cards.... hmmmm... maybe I could start a new
> service!

I'm not aware of pre-paid ANYTHING on Sprint. I wish they had it ...

In article <0001HW.C229B3390018C738F0203648@news.giganews.com >, SinghaLvr wrote:

> I'm not aware of pre-paid ANYTHING on Sprint. I wish they had it ...

Sprint doesn't have prepaid and hasn't for years. That's why they sell
Virgin Mobile prepaid handsets in Sprint corporate stores. Virgin
Mobile is the biggest and best-known Sprint prepaid reseller, and
prepaid is all they do in the US.


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At 23 Mar 2007 16:39:21 -0400 SinghaLvr wrote:

> I'm not aware of pre-paid ANYTHING on Sprint. I wish they had it ...

They do sort of. Sprint has decided not get involved in the hassles of
prepaid directly, so they work through MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network
Operators) Virgin Mobile is a prepaid Sprint reseller, and Boost Mobile
resells Nextel on the prepaid basis.

At 22 Mar 2007 21:51:32 -0700 Brutus wrote:

> That is a great point. I wasn't sure where you were going with your
> comment. Thank you for the clarification.

No problem. I'll be the first to admit some of my posts make more sense
in my head than they seem to on screen! ;-)

> I might have to set up an EVDO card "rental" program. Maybe $100.00
per
> month or $30.00 per week. It may well pencil out.

Excellent idea. Back when I operated a cellular store (late 90's) I
tried to think of a good business model for renting cellphones for
traveling but couldn't figure out a good way to protect myself from
excessive use or roaming charges without requiring a hugh upfront
deposit. (Remember this was long before prepaid allowed roaming or
national no-roam plans were common.)

But a data card would lend itself quite well to rental- service is
unlimited, so overage charges wouldn't bite you, and I don't think Sprint
allows data roaming (or at least doesn't charge extra for it.)

However, I suspect there's probably a no rental/reselling service clause
in the service contract just because the cellular lawyers tend to think
of everything... ;-)

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:51:52 -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote
(in article <slrnf08ffb.rmg.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net>):

> Subject: Re: sprint mobile broadband card
> From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
> Date: Yesterday 4:51 PM
> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs
>
> In article <0001HW.C229B3390018C738F0203648@news.giganews.com >, SinghaLvr
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not aware of pre-paid ANYTHING on Sprint. I wish they had it ...
>
> Sprint doesn't have prepaid and hasn't for years. That's why they sell
> Virgin Mobile prepaid handsets in Sprint corporate stores. Virgin
> Mobile is the biggest and best-known Sprint prepaid reseller, and
> prepaid is all they do in the US.

Unfortunately they won't activate their service using a Sprint phone. You
have to buy a Virgin handset.

These CDMA guys could learn a thing or two from the idea of phone portability
of GSM.

On 2007-03-24, SinghaLvr <singhalvr@charter.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:51:52 -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote
> (in article <slrnf08ffb.rmg.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net>):
>
>> Subject: Re: sprint mobile broadband card
>> From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
>> Date: Yesterday 4:51 PM
>> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs
>>
>> In article <0001HW.C229B3390018C738F0203648@news.giganews.com >, SinghaLvr
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not aware of pre-paid ANYTHING on Sprint. I wish they had it ...
>>
>> Sprint doesn't have prepaid and hasn't for years. That's why they sell
>> Virgin Mobile prepaid handsets in Sprint corporate stores. Virgin
>> Mobile is the biggest and best-known Sprint prepaid reseller, and
>> prepaid is all they do in the US.
>
> Unfortunately they won't activate their service using a Sprint phone. You
> have to buy a Virgin handset.
>
> These CDMA guys could learn a thing or two from the idea of phone portability
> of GSM.

They seem to like it the way it is. It isn't like there's something about
CDMA phones which prevents this; almost all Asian CDMA phones have
SIM cards. They just chose not to adopt the functionality here.

Dennis Ferguson

At 24 Mar 2007 01:00:40 -0400 SinghaLvr wrote:

> Unfortunately they won't activate their service using a Sprint phone.
> You have to buy a Virgin handset.
>
> These CDMA guys could learn a thing or two from the idea of phone
> portability of GSM.


Judging by the increased crippling of, and restrictions on, GSM phones
and services from Cingular and T-Mobile, it seems like the GSM guys are
learning from the CDMA guys instead! :-(

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:28:19 -0400, Todd Allcock wrote
(in article <eu2d07$6ba$3@aioe.org>):

> Subject: Re: sprint mobile broadband card
> From: Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com>
> Date: Today 1:28 AM
> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs
>
> At 24 Mar 2007 01:00:40 -0400 SinghaLvr wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately they won't activate their service using a Sprint phone.
>> You have to buy a Virgin handset.
>>
>> These CDMA guys could learn a thing or two from the idea of phone
>> portability of GSM.
>
>
> Judging by the increased crippling of, and restrictions on, GSM phones
> and services from Cingular and T-Mobile, it seems like the GSM guys are
> learning from the CDMA guys instead! :-(
>
>

Agreed ... and it's unfortunate. However so long as GSM has SIM cards there
will be unlocked phones.

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
news:eu266r$oq2$2@aioe.org...
> At 22 Mar 2007 21:51:32 -0700 Brutus wrote:
>
>> That is a great point. I wasn't sure where you were going with your
>> comment. Thank you for the clarification.
>
> No problem. I'll be the first to admit some of my posts make more sense
> in my head than they seem to on screen! ;-)
>
>> I might have to set up an EVDO card "rental" program. Maybe $100.00
> per
>> month or $30.00 per week. It may well pencil out.
>
> Excellent idea. Back when I operated a cellular store (late 90's) I
> tried to think of a good business model for renting cellphones for
> traveling but couldn't figure out a good way to protect myself from
> excessive use or roaming charges without requiring a hugh upfront
> deposit. (Remember this was long before prepaid allowed roaming or
> national no-roam plans were common.)
>
> But a data card would lend itself quite well to rental- service is
> unlimited, so overage charges wouldn't bite you, and I don't think Sprint
> allows data roaming (or at least doesn't charge extra for it.)
>
> However, I suspect there's probably a no rental/reselling service clause
> in the service contract just because the cellular lawyers tend to think
> of everything... ;-)

Possibly, but it is worth checking out.

Dave
CCG - Wireless Data Communications
Answering complex questions in simple terms
http://ccgroup.us

That goes for the Treo's as well. Works pretty well if you have a Bluetooth
capable laptop, but you can get a Bluetooth adapter if you need it.



"Brutus" <brutus@freetidbet.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
> news:ettvsh$bu6$2@aioe.org...
>> At 21 Mar 2007 18:30:01 -0400 Lewis wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> New to this, so be nice.
>>> I just signed up for two years with sprint cell phone. They also
>>> talked me
>>> into (Not hard to do) getting a mobile broadband card for my
>>> laptop.They
>>> said I could access internet with laptop and get 40 megabytes of data
>>> monthly for 39.99. How much surfing, email, etc. is this approximately?
>>
>> Less than you'd think. A picture taken with a 5 megapixel camera is
>> about 3MB. You could e-mail 13 of those pictures and be done for the
>> month!
>>
>> A single webpage with just a few graphics or photos can easily be 200kb.
>> 200 webpages like that will be 40MB.
>>
>> I believe Sprint will sell you an unlimited plan for $59.99 if you also
>> have a phone with them (which you obviously do.)
>>
>> Alternatively, can't they sell you a cheaper "PAM" (Phone As Modem) plan
>> that will let you use your phone, connected by USB cable, instead of the
>> aircard?
>
> If he has a Blackberry he can get unlimited data for only $39.99 and that
> INCLUDES phone as modem. (EVDO rev. 0.)
>
> Dave
> http://ccgroup.us
>
>
>