Re: sprint mobile broadband card

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
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>> 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?
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>> 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!
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>> A single webpage with just a few graphics or photos can easily be 200kb.
>> 200 webpages like that will be 40MB.
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>> I believe Sprint will sell you an unlimited plan for $59.99 if you also
>> have a phone with them (which you obviously do.)
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>> 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?
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> If he has a Blackberry he can get unlimited data for only $39.99 and that
> INCLUDES phone as modem. (EVDO rev. 0.)
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> Dave
> http://ccgroup.us
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