openmoko and pre-paid cards

[Dean Collins]

> The problem is getting pre-paid GPRS access to anywhere on the net
OUTSIDE
> of T-Mobile's silly "T-Zones" walled garden.
>

Allan, do you know of any GSM carrier that offers GPRS data on prepaid
plans?
I've never come across it before not that I've looked for it

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org [mailto:community-
> bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of alan at rotorgraphics.com
> Sent: Friday, 16 February 2007 2:47 PM
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Subject: Re: openmoko and pre-paid cards
> 
> I'm going to chime in here again on this:
> 
> Here in the US, getting pre-paid voice service via a T-Mobile sim is
no
> problem exactly as Mary illustrates.
> 
> The problem is getting pre-paid GPRS access to anywhere on the net
OUTSIDE
> of T-Mobile's silly "T-Zones" walled garden.
> 
> ~90% of the amazing applications that will be written for the
OpenMoko/Neo
> platform will involve pulling and pushing data to and from your
handset via
> GPRS.
> 
> T-Mobile or Sprint(??) must be induced to offer a prepaid GPRS service
if
> the OpenMoko/Neo platform is to be as fully successful as possible.
> 
> If this prepaid GPRS access fails to materialize, has anyone done any
work
> on creating a working cellular voice modem that could communicate via
a
> personal dialup gateway at home?
> 
> Alan McSwain
> 
> 
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Joe Pfeiffer jjpfeifferjr at comcast.net
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:50:44 -0700
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Subject: Re: openmoko and pre-paid cards
> 
> 
> Mary Stovel writes:
> 
> >Cingular C139.)  I asked at the Cingular store and the T-Mobile
> >store... that if I brought in my own "unlocked" phone,  could I get a
> >SIM card without buying their phone... they said "yes".  I  asked if
> >that applied to the prepaid plans and they said "yes".
> 
> My experience here was almost the same as yours -- the difference
> being that all the plans I saw had a bottom-end phone that they'd give
> you for "free" (in quotes since the plan subsidizes the phone).  They
> told me I couldn't get an additional discount for not taking any phone
> at all.
> 
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