Anyone knows how GPRS billing works?

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In <[email protected]> on Fri, 23 Jul 2004
20:04:42 GMT, "Bruce Chastain" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I've configured my Motorola V400 to use my ISP POP3 and SMPT servers for
>email. The phone offers the option of checking the POP3 server for inbound
>email every 'n' minutes (30 minimum).
>
>Will I incur charges for the bytes transferred as it checked for new email
>every 30 minutes, even if I have no emails to download? The phone reports
>some minimal number of bytes (1408) being transferred each time even when no
>new email is available.

You will be charged for those bytes.

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Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

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"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >Will I incur charges for the bytes transferred as it checked for new
email
> >every 30 minutes, even if I have no emails to download? The phone
reports
> >some minimal number of bytes (1408) being transferred each time even when
no
> >new email is available.
>
> You will be charged for those bytes.

Thanks for the info John. That pretty much eliminates my last hope of using
the email on my V400 as I used to with Nolkia and AT&T. Sigh.

Bruce.