On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:42:04AM -0500, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote:
> At 18:30 11/14/2000 -0500, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> >When I was at MIT last time, I found that my GSM-based cell phone
> >(roaming on Voicestream's network, formerly Omnipoint) was much
> >clearer than my Sprint PCS phone ever was in that building
>
> Hrmm.. interesting, this is 10 bucks cheaper for an extra hundred minutes
> than my SprintPCS phone. Free LD, but only on the NorthEast coast which is
> fine for me personally except I occasionally make West coast business calls
> on my pesonal phone (and I can't figure out how much there LD is).
>          Rate: $39.99
>          Minutes 600
>          Overage 25�

I'm paying $20 CAD for 200 minutes, but I'll probably increase
that to something else since I was way over last month.

> Also, I rather like my Motorola Startac, but I'd like to get a
> 2-way-messeging capable phone (and it doesn't appear that Infostream allows
> Web browsing (even WAP)). I wonder if it's possible to by my phone from
> elsewhere on the Web (cheaper).

My phone has two-way SMS messaging, but I hardly ever use it because
none of my friends have SMS-capable phones, and because I haven't
found a good SMS to email gateway yet.

> Which phone do you use? (And is there a cancellation fee?) (I was hoping
> yesterday's cell plan thread on slashdot would be useful, but of course it
> devolved into a "if the company doesn't pay for your service don't work for
> them!" <sigh>).

I paid $50 CAD for a Nokia 5190, a decent entry-level phone.
(entry-level, yet it's still 10 times better than the Sony phone
I had in Boston, and 100 times better than the analog Nokia I had
before that.) No cancellation fee. More notes:

   http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/07/ottawa/cell-phones.html

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