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Part of what you get from being an early adopter.
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Way cool. A question: have you monitored your data usage? I find I never get even close to the 2Gb allowance, do you?
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Owen,
Since I live in Nambe where the T-Mobile coverage is poor to non-existent, and since I work out of the home where I have good WiFi coverage from my Centurylink DSL, I don't use very much mobile network data. I travel on the average about once a month, and I'm in Santa Fe about 3 times a week, but I doubt I'll ever reach my 2GB cap where T-Mobile starts to throttle my bandwidth.
--Doug On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: Way cool. A question: have you monitored your data usage? I find I never get even close to the 2Gb allowance, do you? Doug Roberts [hidden email] [hidden email] ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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2GB cap? Which plan is that? I just switched my younger daughter to the Googe Voice / T-Mobile $30/month plan: 100-minutes talk, unlimited text, unlimited data with 5GB at 4G speeds, over minutes at $0.10/minute. T-Mobile scared me, I had to drill down a few pages on the website to find the plan listed, lots of $50/month, $60/month, $90/month distractors to get past. There is no 4G in Santa Fe,
I'm at 42 MB used in about a half a month. My daughter had racked up 200MB used on her previous plan in 3/4 month and was starting to accrue $0.10/MB over charges. I've racked up a total $1.90 in over minute charges, all in the first month. We're both mostly getting data over WiFi.
My daughter has lucked out, her new prepaid number didn't come with a deadbeat ex-number holder, so she hasn't had a call yet. The skip-tracers are still calling my ex-number holders three months after they skipped. I've accumulated 50-60 contacts marked as spam and sent directly to voice mail.
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To the wider list: do you have any idea how much data you actually use?
I know from both looking at my Verizon account "data meter" and traveling in Italy with a 2Gb pay-as-you-go, that I never go past 1G in a month.
I also find that Wifi is so available .. both here and Italy .. that it likely reduces my data usage.
-- Owen
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This one, Roger:
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Emailer went off half-cocked. This plan, Roger:
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The Jelly Bean phones have complete data usage accounting. It claims 16MB of mobile data and 230MB of WiFi data in the last 7 days. -- rec -- On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: To the wider list: do you have any idea how much data you actually use? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Roger Critchlow <[hidden email]> wrote:
So if that in a week, then in a month, around 80MB/month .. rounding up? Nice info about the ratio of cell vs wifi, btw .. 14x more wifi than cell. Makes sense. Entirely OT, but Dede got me to finally try the bluetooth cell-to-home phone stunt. Wireless landline phones now have a facility that, when your cellphone rings, you can answer on either the cell handset or the home wireless phone. Way nice, much better voice quality. Also stops from running to where the cellphone .. generally upstairs where the coverage is better. Love the service.
-- Owen
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Owen Densmore wrote at 01/07/2013 09:46 AM:
> To the wider list: do you have any idea how much data you actually use? 12/23 - present: 242 Mb mobile, 784 Mb wifi 11/23 - 12/23: 23 Mb mobile, 2.18Gb wifi -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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Owen (thread-hijacker) -
I get the gist of what you are describing here. Are you saying that new landline phones come with Bluetooth interfaces in them to allow them to act as headsets for your cell phone? Or is something more elaborate going on? It certainly sounds handy if it works. - Steve On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Roger Critchlow <[hidden email]> wrote: ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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I just returned to the ATT fold (but gently) by picking up a new SIM
and new number and then converting my wife's legacy account along
with the new SIM for my phone into a "Mobile Share" plan.
Unlimited txt/talk plus 1G clocks in at $120 which is about what we
paid before on a "family share" plan at one time.
Mobile share *also* gives us the ability to *tether* with either of our phones (iPhone). My wife and I are giving up our landline ( moving the number to Google Voice ) and just added an iPad (wifi only) to our menagerie. I still have my T-Mobile pay-as-you-go plan which is unlimited txt/talk and *effectively* unlimited data. I had *hoped* that I would have days when I didn't use it at all, keeping the cost down to somewhat less than $60/mo. The fact was that unless I turned off the phone, this plan got disrupted at *some* point by one txt or another. One thing I have to look out for with my current situation is "phantom loads" on the data. Google Latitude is a simple example... A fairly simple solution is to just turn of cell data until/if you need it. - Steve
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On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
Yes, that sounds right .. here are details: We have a somewhat new .. within the last year .. vtech wireless - landline phone with 3 remote handsets plus base station. So basically the landline plugs into the base station and you immediately have several phones throughout the house.
While checking out the market .. we were replacing an older vtech system which we very much liked .. she noticed an interesting feature: a bluetooth connection to cell phone handsets. Ours allows two cell phones. So we got that model to play with.
So when it came, Dede "paired" her very basic "feature" phone with the vtech and it worked! When she received a cell phone call, it would also give a special ring and icon on all the vtech handsets, and allow her to answer her cell phone on any of the vtechs. Wow! I'm not sure if it's simply like a bluetooth headset for our phones due to additional integration into the vtech phones. But yes, I guess you could think of this as a wireless remote headset for your cell phone with a few additional telephone features.
I believe you can also "transfer" a call from your cell phone to the vtech handsets: i.e. if you come into the house using your cell phone, you can continue the conversation on the vtechs.
I finally switched over too, so both of us are able to keep our cell phones where they get good coverage, within bluetooth distance of the base station, and not have to run to the cell phone to answer a call.
This appears to be becoming a standard feature of the newer wireless home phone systems. I was amazed that it would work but bingo, it does! -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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Folks may also want to check out "senior citizen" deals. I got a roughly $50/mo plan for seniors that includes plenty of US-wide voice, data (2G) but pay as you go SMS which is not an issue for me. Mine is with Vzn but I get the impression this is becoming standard .. the telcos really want to get granny hooked on data!
-- Owen
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Another feature I have read about but not tried, is using a cell phone as the connection for the traditional land-line-type handsets. In other words, you would appear to have a land-line, but it actually uses a cell connection (either a dedicated one or one
you supply in the form of your cell phone). Yet another feature is the ability of the land-line base station to use WiFi to connect to your Internet router and use VoIP (most smart phones already have this capability).
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