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Estel J Hines - 26 Apr 2006 15:36 GMT

Hi gang,

I called Cingular yesterday, and explained that I needed some kind of plan
that would let me access email thru my Cingular 8125 phone. The gave me the
following options:
1. Wireless email 100 - 3.99
2. Wireless email 500 - 6.99
3. Wireless email 1000 - 9.99

They told me that the 100/500/100 represented how many emails you could
retrieve for that price per month.
The did not mention a data plan. I have no intention of surfing the
internet, only getting my email while traveling.

I opted for the 9.99 plan with 1,000 emails. Anyone else using this plan?
how does it work for you? I setup my phone and it is working great so far,
it automatically switches to wifi when I am close to the 802.11 access
points, so I like it, as long as I am not missing anything about data plans,
etc.

Any info would be helpfull

Estel J Hines

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RobR - 26 Apr 2006 16:04 GMT

I think many of us just opted for a data plan and connect to our
regular email servers, rather than opt to go with a cingular
email address and use their service. There is a technical
hurdle to overcome there (SMTP access from your phone)
but if you can get over that, it's one less email account I
have to worry about managing.

> Hi gang,
>
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> Estel J Hines

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Estel J Hines - 26 Apr 2006 16:27 GMT

Thanks for responding Robr,

Ok, what I did was setup my Comcast email account, then I tested it by
running with wifi turned on, and then turned off. It worked without
problems,
both ways. I was told that the unlimited plan would cost 35. per month, and
this costs only 9.99, so I think i will be saving a bunch (unless I am
missing something).
Being retired, and on a fixed income, that helps me a lot.

Best Regards,

Estel J Hines

ps: I setup a 2nd pop3 server, and it works well also, both send and receive
working on all accounts. I may be missing something,
since, I didn't have to setup a new email for Cingular, I just login to my
pop3 using my passwords, etc. that I have always used.

>I think many of us just opted for a data plan and connect to our
> regular email servers, rather than opt to go with a cingular
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>> Estel J Hines

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RobR - 26 Apr 2006 18:07 GMT

I'll be honest, I really don't know much about Comcast's mail
service. It sounds like they just let you set up the phones
built in SMTP/POP3 client and allow X downloads from
your own server. I had thought they provided the
server and a cingular email account. Doesn't sound like
that's the case.

BTW, if you get the right person on the phone, unlimited
MediaNet is $19.99/month and is the same service as the
unlimited PDA data connect plan, just with no ability
to use VPN. I had to tell the person that the PDA wasn;t
my primary phone and I wanted the medianet for a
different phone and wouldn't be using it with my
PDA. Granted it's more than the $9.99, but still a
far better deal than $39.99/mo for the PDA data
connect plan.

> Thanks for responding Robr,
>
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>>> Estel J Hines

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Marty - 26 Apr 2006 19:41 GMT

Somewhere around Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:27:14 -0400, while reading
alt.cellular.cingular, I think I thought I saw this post from "Estel J
Hines" <ejhines@comcast.net>:

>Thanks for responding Robr,
>
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>since, I didn't have to setup a new email for Cingular, I just login to my
>pop3 using my passwords, etc. that I have always used.

I also don't know a lot about this, but I would think the email service you
got would be like text messaging, which usually costs 10 cents per message.
I think that without a prepaid plan, email is also 10 cents per email
message. But what you're doing may be totally unconnected, and use the
pay-as-you-go data, 1 cent/kilobyte. I don't see how they would be able to
even charge per email from your ISP, unless they actually parse the stream
to read the headers - which is possible, of course, but maybe not feasible.

I'd check online for data usage before using it too much.

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John Navas - 26 Apr 2006 19:22 GMT

>I think many of us just opted for a data plan and connect to our
>regular email servers, rather than opt to go with a cingular
>email address and use their service. There is a technical
>hurdle to overcome there (SMTP access from your phone)
>but if you can get over that, it's one less email account I
>have to worry about managing.

1. Cingular has SMTP servers that can be used for sending email.
See the FAQ below. (SSL support isn't required.)

2. Google Mail:

a. Can be easily sent using the slick WAP interface.

b. Can be sent thru Google's SMTP server from a phone email client
that supports SSL.

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John Navas - 26 Apr 2006 20:33 GMT

>I called Cingular yesterday, and explained that I needed some kind of plan
>that would let me access email thru my Cingular 8125 phone. The gave me the
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>Any info would be helpfull

I can't find those prices on the Cingular website -- could you provide more
information? I'm guessing that this is actually (with prices as listed on the
Cingular website):

1. MEdia Net 1 MB $4.99 per month
2. MEdia Net 5 MB $9.99 per month
3. MEdia Net 10 MB $14.99 per month

Your prices are quite a bit different. I don't know if your prices are
incorrect or if you got some sort of promotion.

If this is MEdia Net, then you'll want to be very careful about staying within
those limits, since overage is very expensive and adds up fast!

Estimates from Cingular *can't* be depended on -- a single email with
attachments could easily chew up 100s of kilobytes (or even megabytes)!

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