MORE Conflicting Info From Sprint - Now re Web Access

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I can determine, this is strictly a statutory exclusion.

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O/Siris
I work for Sprint PCS
I *don't* speak for them

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You just said it. "unlimited Vision usage from the HANDSET - the
plan 'option' they offer for $15/mon." Unlimited data from a laptop or
pda device tethered to a phone is not covered by the Vision option
that can be added to a phone plan. Laptop or pda usage tethered to a
phone would be billed per kilobyte. A much more economical way to get
data to a laptop would be to use a PCS Connection Card and one of the
"Sprint PCS Vision for PCS Connection Cards -Laptop & PDA" plans. Even
though they are not unlimited, they are a lot less expensive than per
kilobyte from a phone. With the plan, 20 thousand kilobytes would $40.
Without the plan, 20 thousand kilobytes would be $200. 40 MB would be
$60 instead of $400, and 300 MB would be $80 instead of $3,000.


Steven J Sobol wrote:

> Jerome Zelinske <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Even if you had an unlimited voice plan that included Vision, (do
>>they have an unlimited voice plan?), it would not cover usage connected
>>to a laptop. Rob said that the only laptop data that they had tech.
>>support for was with a Connection Card. And none of those plans are for
>>unlimited data. The max. included data is 300 MB.
>
>
> I didn't mean unlimited voice. I meant unlimited Vision usage from the
> handset - the plan they offer for $15/month.
>

O/Siris <0siris@sprīntpcs.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by "light Internet Access." You mean
> using a PC via the phone, sort of like a modem? Or do you just want
> a "lite version" Vision pack to allow you unlimited usage?

Just a modest amount of access from the handset -- no other devices
involved. (I've been away from the web for a few days and see that I
could have prevented some controversy by making that point clearer.
Sorry.) That's why I was asked about the possibility of ad-hoc usage:

> > On the plans description page of sprintpcs.com, there is a footnote
> > citing internet charges of $.01 per kb for net usage on web-enabled
> > phones. To me this looked like ad hoc charges that would show up on
> > the next bill.
>
> Exactly. I can't believe some of the stories you were told. With no
> pack in place, you pay a penny per KB of data transmitted to or from
> the phone. Billed to you on the next bill after they occur.
> Warning: this adds up RAPIDLY. I got involved in a debate about this
> on a web site in whose forums I participate. 38.5 MB in 5 days.
> Total charge, $385.

Good Lord!! All I'm looking for is occasional Yellow Pages and Movie
Listings access using the Vision versions of sites like Yahoo. What
would a very rough estimate be of kb's per "average" Vision *page* of
this type? I can then estimate how many pages I might need in a
session (since I've played around with Vision a few times on others'
phones), how many sessions I might have per month, and then multiply
to get ballpark monthly kb's.

> Hopefully, I've provided you some good info as well. Good luck,
> either way.

Definitely, very helpful!! Thanks. And thanks to everyone else for
their input, too.