openmoko and pre-paid cards

[Sam Kome]

Hey all,

Doing a little research on howardforums...looks like it's possible to
get GPRS access with pre-paid on T-Mobile. At least on certain devices.
I looked at the Tmobile configurator (for lack of a better term) and of
course it has a fixed list of devices, but I bet that has to do with
user agent profiles (at least for port 80), which can be spoofed.

I have seen similar info about Cingular/AT&T.

"Again, I am PREPAID and do NOT have any data plan and this is working
for me"  --
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1089243&page=3&pp=15&highlight=
tmobile+internet

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Dean Collins
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 4:09 PM
To: alan at rotorgraphics.com; community at lists.openmoko.org
Subject: RE: openmoko and pre-paid cards

> 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
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean at cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357 Ph
+1-917-207-3420 Mb
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).


> -----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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