Travel Technology - Anybody use T-Mobile EDGE card?

Ok, currently I have a Verizon phone, a verizon laptop card, a T-mobile phone, a T-mobile Blackberry, a T-mobile MDA and T-mobile hotspot access. Consequently, my communications charges every month rival that of a small country, therefore it is time to consolidate.

I have decided to dump my verizon phone and verizon laptop card and consolidate on T-mobile, but before I do that, I have a few questions:

1. Is anyone using the T-mobile laptop cellular card? If so, what has been you experience? does it work well? is it relatively fast?
2. If I read the t-mobile site correctly, if I get their Ericsson card and the Internet service for 49.95, this INCLUDES t-mobile hotspot access, am I correct?


thanks!

I assume you are referring to the GC89 EDGE/WIFI card.

I have one here, and it is pretty good. The SE software is pretty no-frills, but works very well. Speeds vary between 50kb/s and 190kb/s on larger downloads. It isn't DSL, but it is usable.

But why bother getting a card when you can use the MDA as a modem?

The $49.95 plan comes with "total internet" which is T-mo's new name for GPRS/EDGE and Hotspots in one package.

Ok, currently I have a Verizon phone, a verizon laptop card, a T-mobile phone, a T-mobile Blackberry, a T-mobile MDA and T-mobile hotspot access. Consequently, my communications charges every month rival that of a small country, therefore it is time to consolidate.

I have decided to dump my verizon phone and verizon laptop card and consolidate on T-mobile, but before I do that, I have a few questions:

1. Is anyone using the T-mobile laptop cellular card? If so, what has been you experience? does it work well? is it relatively fast?
2. If I read the t-mobile site correctly, if I get their Ericsson card and the Internet service for 49.95, this INCLUDES t-mobile hotspot access, am I correct?


thanks!


You might get more detail and variety of reponses from the above forum.

You might get more detail and variety of reponses from the above forum.

More detailed than here? The quality of the responses from the various users here has always been better than the "me too" responses from the kiddies at HoFo.

The $49.95 plan comes with "total internet" which is T-mo's new name for GPRS/EDGE and Hotspots in one package.


Wow I'm a little jealous I pay 79.99-25% for my Cingular Unlimited PC card, but then again I have UMTS access...

-Vincent

Wow I'm a little jealous I pay 79.99-25% for my Cingular Unlimited PC card, but then again I have UMTS access...

-Vincent

Yeah, T-mobile has always been pretty cheap with their data plans. They used to have a $19.95 data addon for any voiceplan, then they moved to add Hotspots to it and charge $29.95. A lot of people are pretty mad over this move, especially since they did it right after they blocked regular web access through the cheap WAP plans (that were never really meant to have full access anyway).

Yeah, T-mobile has always been pretty cheap with their data plans. They used to have a $19.95 data addon for any voiceplan, then they moved to add Hotspots to it and charge $29.95. A lot of people are pretty mad over this move, especially since they did it right after they blocked regular web access through the cheap WAP plans (that were never really meant to have full access anyway).

I haven't surfed internet recently but the cheap T-zones service ($5.99) can be hacked to get both POP3Mail and full access to internet. Have both Treo 600 and SE 520i, and download email daily.

Go to Howardchui.com forum again, search T-Mobile service, Oct/Nov 04 postings provide instructions (yes, lots of newbies but also good information if one is patient and takes the time to go through the threads).

One of the reasons I haven't gotten a crackberry - even though my company would pay for it, I'm essentially saving $500++ a year :)

Is the service relatively high-speed?

Is the service relatively high-speed?

EDGE can be considered about twice as fast as 56k dial up, sometimes faster. UMTS/HSPDA from Cingular available in some markets is closer to low end DSL speeds, else where it will default back to EDGE.

-Vincent