Prepaid and tetherned Internet?

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Scott Ehrlich - 20 Aug 2006 15:41 GMT

If I have a PDA w/BT, a BT GSM phone, and TM prepaid, does their prepaid
service permit me to use the Internet via my PDA? It is not clear from
their web site.

Thanks.

Scott

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Todd Allcock - 20 Aug 2006 18:46 GMT

> If I have a PDA w/BT, a BT GSM phone, and TM prepaid, does their
>prepaid service permit me to use the Internet via my PDA?
> It is not clear from their web site.

Not really. T-Mo prepaid accounts are limited to a very small number of
WAP websites T-Mo has preselected, like CNN and ESPN. They don't have
any sort of general web access.

Theoretically, if you connect via BT you could browse those same sites in
your PDA's browser, but that would be rather pointless unless your phone
had no browser, which is unlikely if it has BT and supports GPRS!

In addition, T-Mo has disables CSD (GSM dial-up data connections) on
prepaid accounts so you can't use the phone as a modem to dial your own
ISP either. (Of course, at the whopping 9.6kbps of a CSD connection, you
probably wouldn't be interested anyway!)

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Jerry Cloe - 22 Aug 2006 02:42 GMT

> Not really. T-Mo prepaid accounts are limited to a very small number of
> WAP websites T-Mo has preselected, like CNN and ESPN. They don't have
> any sort of general web access.

Is there email access with the prepaid?? If so, how does the billing on
this work? Is it similar to the "normal" tzones or whatever its called this
week for $5.99?

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