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Avoid dial-up access fees
If people are paying 50 cents per minute for dial up access on their Pocket PC, they are getting hosed! I have a T616 with T-Mobile and pay $19.99 a month for unlimited dial up access (it doesn’t use up any of my plan minutes, no charge per MB, etc). I also have a MSN dial up account I use on my laptop when traveling. When I bought my iPAQ h4355 a couple of months ago, I just set up the Bluetooth connection and entered my user ID and password for MSN. It works flawlessly. It’s not the fastest thing in the world, but I don’t surf Web pages all day long on my iPAQ. For downloading e-mail, it’s plenty fast. I have been doing this for the last two months now, using it to send and receive e-mail every day, and my bill is always the same.
sdeetz
I agree with sdeetz—I also use T-Mobile’s $20 unlimited GPRS and it’s a great deal. But if someone only needs limited access (such as to check e-mail when on the road) then a less expensive, more limited account might be more appropriate.
David Shier
Forum Moderator
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