[Cialug] low speed cellphone data plan

[Richard Harms]

I can verify that GPRS is still alive and well on AT&T's network in  
Montana as of last week, and is in fact extremely low-speed. A  
Verizon Mifi is the best accessory I've ever bought for my iPhone.

-rh

On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:46 PM, David Champion wrote:

> I had GPRS (pron: Jeepers) on my T-Mobile Treo 600 a few years ago. It
> wasn't really very cheap, but it certainly was low-speed. I don't know
> if any of the US GSM carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T), still offer GPRS.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gprs
>
> -dc
>
> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> A while back I was reading about a low-cost data service that used
>> cellular networks. From the context I gathered it was widely deployed
>> and gets speeds in the range of 32k to 64k and was priced  
>> inexpensively.
>>
>> Does anyone know what this service is called and who sells it? I was
>> thinking it was called GPRS but when I search for that I don't find
>> what I'm looking for.
>>
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