One MEdia Net plan on multiple phones on one account

I currently have one line of service on my account. My voice plan, and
my MEdia Max $19.99 plan (unlimited MEdia Net, 200 text/picture
messages). I am wanting to add an additional $9.99 phone to my account
for a member of my family to use, and I want them to have unlimited
MEdia Net access as well. Since I already have one $19.99 MEdia Net
unlimited plan on my account, will the other phone's usage just use the
existing data plan? I asked a Cingular representative, and they said
that I would need a seperate data plan for the additional line. True,
or not?

Drew wrote:
> I currently have one line of service on my account. My voice plan, and
> my MEdia Max $19.99 plan (unlimited MEdia Net, 200 text/picture
> messages). I am wanting to add an additional $9.99 phone to my account
> for a member of my family to use, and I want them to have unlimited
> MEdia Net access as well. Since I already have one $19.99 MEdia Net
> unlimited plan on my account, will the other phone's usage just use the
> existing data plan? I asked a Cingular representative, and they said
> that I would need a seperate data plan for the additional line. True,
> or not?
>
True

At 13 Jan 2007 19:35:50 -0800 Drew wrote:
> I currently have one line of service on my account. My voice plan, and
> my MEdia Max $19.99 plan (unlimited MEdia Net, 200 text/picture
> messages). I am wanting to add an additional $9.99 phone to my account
> for a member of my family to use, and I want them to have unlimited
> MEdia Net access as well. Since I already have one $19.99 MEdia Net
> unlimited plan on my account, will the other phone's usage just use the
> existing data plan? I asked a Cingular representative, and they said
> that I would need a seperate data plan for the additional line. True,
> or not?
>

Yes, true. The second phone will cost you $30/month. The $9.99 to share
your minutes, and the $20 for MEdia Net.



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> Yes, true. The second phone will cost you $30/month. The $9.99 to share
> your minutes, and the $20 for MEdia Net.

What a rip off. It looks like there could be a way to bridge account
settings over from the main account to all the other lines on the
account. Just another way for them to rack in the money I guess.

At 14 Jan 2007 07:51:53 -0800 Drew wrote:
> > Yes, true. The second phone will cost you $30/month. The $9.99 to
share
> > your minutes, and the $20 for MEdia Net.
>
> What a rip off. It looks like there could be a way to bridge account
> settings over from the main account to all the other lines on the
> account.

But, you could be using web access on all of the phones at once, using x
times the bandwidth. Your home intenet provider doesn't allow your
vacation home to share unlimited access with your main home, why should
Cingular allow you to share a reasonably priced $20 unlimited data plan
with multiple phones, unless they could lock it down so only one phone
could use it at a time.



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In article <45aa9eb0$0$4807$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>,
Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:

> At 14 Jan 2007 07:51:53 -0800 Drew wrote:
> > > Yes, true. The second phone will cost you $30/month. The $9.99 to
> share
> > > your minutes, and the $20 for MEdia Net.
> >
> > What a rip off. It looks like there could be a way to bridge account
> > settings over from the main account to all the other lines on the
> > account.
>
> But, you could be using web access on all of the phones at once, using x
> times the bandwidth. Your home intenet provider doesn't allow your
> vacation home to share unlimited access with your main home, why should
> Cingular allow you to share a reasonably priced $20 unlimited data plan
> with multiple phones, unless they could lock it down so only one phone
> could use it at a time.

i was one of those told by Cingualar that MediaNet would not work on a
Treo and that I had to buy a dataplan.
Question, with MediaNet, do I still use Blazer as my web browser, or is
MediaNet its own entity?

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Kurt wrote:

> i was one of those told by Cingualar that MediaNet would not work on a
> Treo and that I had to buy a dataplan.
> Question, with MediaNet, do I still use Blazer as my web browser, or is
> MediaNet its own entity?

Either Blazer or a third party. I prefer Opera Mini.

In article <KEBqh.19999$yC5.4766@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net >,
Unquestionably Confused <puzzled2@ameritech.net> wrote:

> Kurt wrote:
>
> > i was one of those told by Cingualar that MediaNet would not work on a
> > Treo and that I had to buy a dataplan.
> > Question, with MediaNet, do I still use Blazer as my web browser, or is
> > MediaNet its own entity?
>
> Either Blazer or a third party. I prefer Opera Mini.

What exactly is the difference between their expensive data plan and the
much cheaper MediaNet? Have not been able to formulate a side- by side
comparison.

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At 14 Jan 2007 18:23:31 -0800 Kurt wrote:

> i was one of those told by Cingualar that MediaNet would not work on a
> Treo and that I had to buy a dataplan.
> Question, with MediaNet, do I still use Blazer as my web browser, or is
> MediaNet its own entity?

MEdia Net is simply Cingular's "name branding" of their WAP data service
(like Sprint's "Vision" or T-Mo's "T-Mobile Web.")

You'd still use Blazer for access.



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At 14 Jan 2007 19:21:19 -0800 Kurt wrote:

> What exactly is the difference between their expensive data plan and
the
> much cheaper MediaNet?

About $20 (ba-ba-boom!)

> Have not been able to formulate a side- by side
> comparison.

Cingular charges for unlimited data by the type of device you have. They
asume PDAs user more data than "dumb" phones, and laptops use the most.
If you can convince them to sell you a $20 data plan on the device that's
"supposed" to use a $40 plan, it'll work fine.



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In article <45ab1fe9$0$4782$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>,
Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:

> At 14 Jan 2007 19:21:19 -0800 Kurt wrote:
>
> > What exactly is the difference between their expensive data plan and
> the
> > much cheaper MediaNet?
>
> About $20 (ba-ba-boom!)
>
> > Have not been able to formulate a side- by side
> > comparison.
>
> Cingular charges for unlimited data by the type of device you have. They
> asume PDAs user more data than "dumb" phones, and laptops use the most.
> If you can convince them to sell you a $20 data plan on the device that's
> "supposed" to use a $40 plan, it'll work fine.

I'll give it a shot this week.

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On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:21:19 -0800, Kurt <labolide@spacegmail.com>
wrote:

>In article <KEBqh.19999$yC5.4766@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net >,
> Unquestionably Confused <puzzled2@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
>> Kurt wrote:
>>
>> > i was one of those told by Cingualar that MediaNet would not work on a
>> > Treo and that I had to buy a dataplan.
>> > Question, with MediaNet, do I still use Blazer as my web browser, or is
>> > MediaNet its own entity?
>>
>> Either Blazer or a third party. I prefer Opera Mini.
>
>What exactly is the difference between their expensive data plan and the
>much cheaper MediaNet? Have not been able to formulate a side- by side
>comparison.


The difference is $20 a month, on the assumption that a PDA phone will
be used far more heavily (especially during peak hours) than a
standard phone on Media Net. Thus the difference between the $19.99
Media Net, and the $39.99 PDA Data Plan.

I do seem to recall people getting away with buying a MediaNet plan
for an old phone
buying a unlocked PDA (not from Cingular) and then "getting away"
with using MediaNet on the PDA by moving their SIM over.