Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] VoiceStream data services

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Jason Youngquist wrote:

> I told Mike this via email, but I think the Treo has two different
> options to browse the Internet.  One option is to dial up to your ISP
> and use them for IP connectivity.  The other way (apparently) is through
> GPRS...and it looks like that is what voicestream is trying to sell you.
> The good thing about GPRS is that it's "always on" and you don't have to
> wait ~20 seconds to get connected.


I've ben thinking about the price.  GSM gives you only about 14 kbps, but
GPRS gives you about 56 kbps.  To download 1 MB of data with GSM would
take about 9.5 minutes which, with my plan, would be about 76 cents.  But
even the best GPRS rate is $3/MB.  So, I think GPRS is charging more per
MB.  But, like Jason said, GPRS is always on and only charging for bytes
sent.  When using a web browser, we spend more time looking at the pages
than we spend transmitting them.  So it might not be as bad as it sounds.

Mike

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