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- 03-21-2007, 04:30 PM #1LewisGuest
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?
Thanks
Luke
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- 03-21-2007, 09:46 PM #2BrutusGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
"Lewis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> 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?
>
> Thanks
> Luke
Luke - Call them back and tell them you want the $59.99 Unlimited Plan. You
will use up 40 megs pretty quickly if you surf the net much (or download
anything from Microsoft). One MP3 is about 4 - 6 megs, for example. Figure
about 20-50k per webpage - unless it has heavy flash and graphic then it is
more. 100 pages could use up your monthly quota. Google will show you the
size of the page when you surf.
HTH,
Dave
http://ccgroup.us
- 03-22-2007, 06:31 AM #3P.SchumanGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
is there any way to get a card & unlimited data service
for only a couple of months,
say for a summer road trip ?
- 03-22-2007, 07:21 AM #4Todd AllcockGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
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?
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!
A single webpage with just a few graphics or photos can easily be 200kb.
200 webpages like that will be 40MB.
I believe Sprint will sell you an unlimited plan for $59.99 if you also
have a phone with them (which you obviously do.)
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?
- 03-22-2007, 07:32 AM #5Todd AllcockGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
At 22 Mar 2007 12:31:28 +0000 P.Schuman wrote:
> is there any way to get a card & unlimited data service
> for only a couple of months,
> say for a summer road trip ?
Sure, get the card and plan with a two-year contract, then cancel and pay
the $200 cancellation fee.
The fee is much cheaper than keeping an unneeded $60-80 plan for 20 extra
months.
- 03-22-2007, 10:36 AM #6BrutusGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
"Todd Allcock" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> At 22 Mar 2007 12:31:28 +0000 P.Schuman wrote:
>> is there any way to get a card & unlimited data service
>> for only a couple of months,
>> say for a summer road trip ?
>
> Sure, get the card and plan with a two-year contract, then cancel and pay
> the $200 cancellation fee.
>
> The fee is much cheaper than keeping an unneeded $60-80 plan for 20 extra
> months.
>
Isn't it interesting that people think that all companies are out to gouge
them? If people don't want contracts then go pre-paid. Unfortunately I am
not aware of any on data cards.... hmmmm... maybe I could start a new
service!
Dave
http://ccgroup.us
- 03-22-2007, 10:38 AM #7BrutusGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
"Todd Allcock" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> 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?
>
> 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!
>
> A single webpage with just a few graphics or photos can easily be 200kb.
> 200 webpages like that will be 40MB.
>
> I believe Sprint will sell you an unlimited plan for $59.99 if you also
> have a phone with them (which you obviously do.)
>
> 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?
If he has a Blackberry he can get unlimited data for only $39.99 and that
INCLUDES phone as modem. (EVDO rev. 0.)
Dave
http://ccgroup.us
- 03-22-2007, 02:30 PM #8Todd AllcockGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
At 22 Mar 2007 09:36:26 -0700 Brutus wrote:
> Isn't it interesting that people think that all companies are out to
> gouge
> them? If people don't want contracts then go pre-paid.
I'm not suggesting the OP thought any company was out to gouge him- I
just made the point that because they don't offer a month-to-month plan
doesn't mean you can't use it for a shorter period and pay the penalty.
(Just look at it differently- instead of "free aircard with 2-year
agreement," it's a $200 aircard with the service length of your choice!)
> Unfortunately I am
> not aware of any on data cards.... hmmmm... maybe I could start a new
> service!
Most carriers limit the use of prepaid on prepaid, even to their MVNO
partners, because the common school of thought is that high-data/low-
voice users would defect to prepaid, taking their high monthly payments
with them...
- 03-22-2007, 10:51 PM #9BrutusGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
"Todd Allcock" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> At 22 Mar 2007 09:36:26 -0700 Brutus wrote:
>
>> Isn't it interesting that people think that all companies are out to
>> gouge
>> them? If people don't want contracts then go pre-paid.
>
> I'm not suggesting the OP thought any company was out to gouge him- I
> just made the point that because they don't offer a month-to-month plan
> doesn't mean you can't use it for a shorter period and pay the penalty.
> (Just look at it differently- instead of "free aircard with 2-year
> agreement," it's a $200 aircard with the service length of your choice!)
That is a great point. I wasn't sure where you were going with your
comment. Thank you for the clarification.
>
>> Unfortunately I am
>> not aware of any on data cards.... hmmmm... maybe I could start a new
>> service!
>
> Most carriers limit the use of prepaid on prepaid, even to their MVNO
> partners, because the common school of thought is that high-data/low-
> voice users would defect to prepaid, taking their high monthly payments
> with them...
I might have to set up an EVDO card "rental" program. Maybe $100.00 per
month or $30.00 per week. It may well pencil out.
Dave
http://ccgroup.us
- 03-23-2007, 08:10 PM #10Todd AllcockGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
At 23 Mar 2007 16:39:21 -0400 SinghaLvr wrote:
> I'm not aware of pre-paid ANYTHING on Sprint. I wish they had it ...
They do sort of. Sprint has decided not get involved in the hassles of
prepaid directly, so they work through MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network
Operators) Virgin Mobile is a prepaid Sprint reseller, and Boost Mobile
resells Nextel on the prepaid basis.
- 03-23-2007, 08:22 PM #11Todd AllcockGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
At 22 Mar 2007 21:51:32 -0700 Brutus wrote:
> That is a great point. I wasn't sure where you were going with your
> comment. Thank you for the clarification.
No problem. I'll be the first to admit some of my posts make more sense
in my head than they seem to on screen! ;-)
> I might have to set up an EVDO card "rental" program. Maybe $100.00
per
> month or $30.00 per week. It may well pencil out.
Excellent idea. Back when I operated a cellular store (late 90's) I
tried to think of a good business model for renting cellphones for
traveling but couldn't figure out a good way to protect myself from
excessive use or roaming charges without requiring a hugh upfront
deposit. (Remember this was long before prepaid allowed roaming or
national no-roam plans were common.)
But a data card would lend itself quite well to rental- service is
unlimited, so overage charges wouldn't bite you, and I don't think Sprint
allows data roaming (or at least doesn't charge extra for it.)
However, I suspect there's probably a no rental/reselling service clause
in the service contract just because the cellular lawyers tend to think
of everything... ;-)
- 03-23-2007, 11:28 PM #12Todd AllcockGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
At 24 Mar 2007 01:00:40 -0400 SinghaLvr wrote:
> Unfortunately they won't activate their service using a Sprint phone.
> You have to buy a Virgin handset.
>
> These CDMA guys could learn a thing or two from the idea of phone
> portability of GSM.
Judging by the increased crippling of, and restrictions on, GSM phones
and services from Cingular and T-Mobile, it seems like the GSM guys are
learning from the CDMA guys instead! :-(
- 03-24-2007, 05:05 PM #13BrutusGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
"Todd Allcock" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> At 22 Mar 2007 21:51:32 -0700 Brutus wrote:
>
>> That is a great point. I wasn't sure where you were going with your
>> comment. Thank you for the clarification.
>
> No problem. I'll be the first to admit some of my posts make more sense
> in my head than they seem to on screen! ;-)
>
>> I might have to set up an EVDO card "rental" program. Maybe $100.00
> per
>> month or $30.00 per week. It may well pencil out.
>
> Excellent idea. Back when I operated a cellular store (late 90's) I
> tried to think of a good business model for renting cellphones for
> traveling but couldn't figure out a good way to protect myself from
> excessive use or roaming charges without requiring a hugh upfront
> deposit. (Remember this was long before prepaid allowed roaming or
> national no-roam plans were common.)
>
> But a data card would lend itself quite well to rental- service is
> unlimited, so overage charges wouldn't bite you, and I don't think Sprint
> allows data roaming (or at least doesn't charge extra for it.)
>
> However, I suspect there's probably a no rental/reselling service clause
> in the service contract just because the cellular lawyers tend to think
> of everything... ;-)
Possibly, but it is worth checking out.
Dave
CCG - Wireless Data Communications
Answering complex questions in simple terms
http://ccgroup.us
- 03-31-2007, 07:27 AM #14ZmanGuest
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" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Todd Allcock" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> 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?
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> A single webpage with just a few graphics or photos can easily be 200kb.
>> 200 webpages like that will be 40MB.
>>
>> I believe Sprint will sell you an unlimited plan for $59.99 if you also
>> have a phone with them (which you obviously do.)
>>
>> 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?
>
> If he has a Blackberry he can get unlimited data for only $39.99 and that
> INCLUDES phone as modem. (EVDO rev. 0.)
>
> Dave
> http://ccgroup.us
>
>
>
- 04-30-2007, 01:47 PM #15Michael ParisGuest
Re: sprint mobile broadband card
> The fee is much cheaper than keeping an unneeded $60-80 plan for 20 extra
> months.
Exactly my thoughts, my mobile phone service is Cingular, my data card is
Sprint, no 3g HSDPA coverage by me, as well as it being cheaper then
Cingular do to discounts through where I work. If in a year, things change,
I'll just pay the early termination fee and go with Cingular, if they don't
match the discount I am getting, I will just stay with Spring, especially if
they start rolling out WiMAX. Heck, if they do that, I'll get one of those
linksys or other brand wireless routers and drop my cable modem and save
even more.
BTW I have no complaints with Sprints service, it's pretty damned fast as it
is now, about as fast as my brother in laws base dsl.
Mike
Sierra Wireless 595U
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