Another wireless provider for my Ericsson T28 World?

Post #44,552 by kmself 7/5/02 1:18:27 PM Reply	Another wireless provider for my Ericsson T28 World? [link\|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/05/BUCING.DTL&type=business\|Cingular sucks], and the future looks bleak. I've got a paid-up Ericsson T28 World 3-band GSM phone. I'd like to transfer it to another provider. I know that it supports this (SIM card), question is: who's running decent GSM coverage in NoCal? Cingular provides zip coverage at either home or work. Customer service and website are clueless. SMS and email => wireless interface are largely incompatible and very expensive (I'd like to make automated notifications for certain system events). I need something that works, this definitely isn't it -- and for this I pay 40 sheKels a month I'll probably expand this into a [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome\|TWikIWETHEY] topic. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #44,563 by a6l6e6x 7/5/02 4:41:48 PM Reply	I have seen banks use pagers (old tech) for that purpose... i.e. receiving automated "system event" messages to someone who is supposed to care. :) Yeh, it's another device to carry around. Alex "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Post #44,566 by kmself 7/5/02 5:29:10 PM Reply	Wrong way If I buy new HW, it's going to be an integrated phone / PDA thing, preferably running GNU/Linux. And NWIH I'll carry a pager in addition. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #45,306 by tonytib 7/12/02 2:25:46 PM Reply	You're basically screwed, at least for a while Last time I checked, Cingular (formerly PacHell) is the only GSM provider in the Bay Area. You could try lobbying Voicestream to move in (IIRC they have presence in all the states EXCEPT California & Nevada) -- they seem to have a better reputation. AT&T is going to GSM/GPRS, but: 1. I don't believe their current network in the Bay Area is GSM, because they bought it from Cellular One, which was not GSM 2. You still may be screwed, because in the Western US (but not including CA & NV), AT&T and Cingular are cooperatively building a GSM network, so their coverage would be the same. They may do this in CA too. Not every GSM phone can take advantage of switching carriers, e.g. if you buy it from the carrier, they can lock the phone so it won't accept "foreign" SIM cards. For example, my pre-paid German GSM phone won't accept an Italian SIM card (from a different network). However, I don't think you'll run into this problem. You may want to look at non-PacBell options for SMS; for example, bigfoot.com has a service that will send SMS messages from a computer. If you do not use you phone a lot, you might consider changing to Cingular Pre-paid; its terms are lousy compared to European pre-paid, but better than most US pre-paid carriers ($20 card expires in 90 days IIRC). Good luck, and I'd recommend bugging Voicestream and AT&T to find out what their plans are. Tony

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