Re: VZW BroadbandAccess daily session pricing?

Paul wrote:
"Larry" <noone@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns997018BB15EDnoonehomecom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Paul" <paule@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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So in theory, one can just load
the software, plug in the hardware and never talk to a service rep or
visit a store.

Why would anyone pay $60 or $70 a month for 5GB of webpages and email?
Seems rather stupid.

Larry,
If you travel on business all across the nation like I do, and stay in hotels that charge routinely charge $8 - $15 per day for internet access, the Verizon card is a great deal. It pays for itself with a few days of hotel stays per month. My company actually *saves* money, and improves the productivity of travelling employees. Hardly "stupid".

Until you find yourself somewhere along US 287, between Raton, NM and Wichita Falls, TX... Where the worthless roaming partner won't even let you make a 14.4k data call over their 2G CDMA plant (I forget which SID this was, and it may have changed to some degree, its been a bit over a year since I made the trip). I also refuse to check into a motel w/o wifi. Its always easy enough to check the WiFi situation from the parking lot.

Heaven forbid you leave a major road in New Mexico (sometimes staying on a major road isn't enough) and expect to make a phone call. I regularly found myself looking up a GSM tower (obvious when looking at the antenna layout) while my phone had the good ol' "no service" marker while attempting to use a CDMA system so far away theres no chance in hell my measly 250 mW is going to get back, or hitting SprintPCS systems that were no longer in my PRL (they sure as hell were when I signed my contract), no matter how far under the noise floor Qualcomm claims their technology can hear. Your $70/mo data plan will be extremely worthless in places like this, and a few of the towns I found this to be the case actually had Holiday Inn Express and Best Western hotels! If a town is worthy of a couple $1M+ NRC motels, its worth a $75k NRC/$1.5k MRC tower install.

I've decided what I need to do is get a carrier with native coverage everywhere I normally find myself using the phone. Today, for me, this would be Cingular. Unluckily theres no way to know if that will be the case 2 years from now, and that seems to be the going rate for cellular contracts these days.

.

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