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- 02-08-2007, 12:51 PM #1Pete NaldaGuest
Hi,
I've lately fallen in love with the blackberry, as I'd love access to
mobile email and love txt messaging. Problem is, I'm not willing to
sign a contract to use one. I'm also impressed with it's browser. I
asked Verizon, and while they sell Blackberries they don't offer prepay
service with it.
So if anyone knows of a prepay service that can be used with a
blackberry, I'd sure like to know. The blackberries are the biz, at
least until the iphone comes out.
TIA
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- 02-10-2007, 06:18 PM #2Dick CGuest
Re: Anyone Have Prepay Service with A Blackberry?
Cyrus Afzali wrote in alt.cellular
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:51:19 +0100 (CET), Pete Nalda
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I've lately fallen in love with the blackberry, as I'd love access to
>>mobile email and love txt messaging. Problem is, I'm not willing to
>>sign a contract to use one. I'm also impressed with it's browser. I
>>asked Verizon, and while they sell Blackberries they don't offer prepay
>>service with it.
>>
>>So if anyone knows of a prepay service that can be used with a
>>blackberry, I'd sure like to know. The blackberries are the biz, at
>>least until the iphone comes out.
>>
> I've never seen a provider that offers Blackberry service on a
> pay-as-you-go basis. Until relatively recently, it was considered a
> business service, thus not something that would be promoted to
> customers who didn't want a contract. In fact, it's rare or virtually
> nonexistant to even see any kind of data device or plan available
> pre-paid.
>
And to use a blackberry for anything other than just a phone you have
to have a blackberry data plan. This allows you to access the blackberry
servers. Without the plan you can not do anything that makes the blackberry
useful.
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- 02-11-2007, 07:41 AM #3SMSGuest
Re: Anyone Have Prepay Service with A Blackberry?
Pete Nalda wrote:
> Hi,
> I've lately fallen in love with the blackberry, as I'd love access to
> mobile email and love txt messaging. Problem is, I'm not willing to
> sign a contract to use one. I'm also impressed with it's browser. I
> asked Verizon, and while they sell Blackberries they don't offer prepay
> service with it.
>
> So if anyone knows of a prepay service that can be used with a
> blackberry, I'd sure like to know. The blackberries are the biz, at
> least until the iphone comes out.
Boost Mobile (Nextel's prepaid service on iDEN) works with the iDEN
Blackberry, at least partially.
"http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/4427-data_on_prepaid_boost.html"
Note that Nextel coverage is non-existent in many areas, and may be
eliminated in the next couple of years. You should be able to find a
used Blackberry for Nextel for a very low price.
- 02-27-2007, 09:23 AM #4Pete NaldaGuest
Re: Anyone Have Prepay Service with A Blackberry?
In <[email protected]> SMS wrote:
> Pete Nalda wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've lately fallen in love with the blackberry, as I'd love access to
>> mobile email and love txt messaging. Problem is, I'm not willing to
>> sign a contract to use one. I'm also impressed with it's browser. I
>> asked Verizon, and while they sell Blackberries they don't offer
>> prepay service with it. So if anyone knows of a prepay service
>> that can be used with a blackberry, I'd sure like to know. The
>> blackberries are the biz, at least until the iphone comes out.
>
> Boost Mobile (Nextel's prepaid service on iDEN) works with the iDEN
> Blackberry, at least partially.
>
> "http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/4427-data_on_prepaid_boost.html"
>
> Note that Nextel coverage is non-existent in many areas, and may be
> eliminated in the next couple of years. You should be able to find a
> used Blackberry for Nextel for a very low price.
>
Thanks for the info, but what's IDEN? And do you know which features *
wouldn't* work? Isn't nextel now part of sprint and hasn't that helped
their coverage any? Heh, I currently use verizon's prepay and it
doesn't cover me when I go to Abilene, TX lol, but anywhere on the I35
corridor here in tx I'm covered. Sprint covers abilene well as does
virgin mobile, so maybe I'd have better luck with Boost.
- 02-27-2007, 10:11 AM #5SMSGuest
Re: Anyone Have Prepay Service with A Blackberry?
Pete Nalda wrote:
> Thanks for the info, but what's IDEN?
Nextel's Push To Annoy service uses the iDEN network.
> And do you know which features *
> wouldn't* work? Isn't nextel now part of sprint and hasn't that helped
> their coverage any?
No.
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