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Mar 2, 2007, 5:52 am

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Originally Posted by ScottC

I'll respond to the rest a little later, but your initial view of the European cellphone market isn't right. Yes, it is about the phone for most users and pay as you go is pretty popular, but the vast majority is still on contracts.

There are no decent pay per use data deals in the US, and certainly nothing in a bundle.

So, the t-mobile tzones hack on the tmo cards is till working in the bay area at least, I use it sometimes on the phone that is mounted in the car, for bt communication to the GPS, to update my positioning. Granted, it is GPRS at best, but yeah, there are no EVDO or 3G paygo plans in the usa.

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