[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[Thomas Gardner]

Ditto:  Please let us know if it works out for you.  Also, I'd be
interested in just how ``unlimited'' their ``unlimited everything''
plan really is (I think that's what you have, if I remember their
advertisements on TV right).  I hear unlimited doesn't always really
mean unlimited.  Politicians and marketing types seem to have their
own language...

L8r,
tg.

On 8/11/12, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> I have a Walmart "Straight Talk" cellphone. For $45/month
>> I get unlimited talk and text, and *I think* data too.
>
> Let us know if you do. In the '90's anyone could use their
> cell phone for data; it was just a serial port. Then the
> cell phone companies spent years figuring out how to
> separate data and speech, so that they could charge
> separately for them. Now with these technological
> improvements inplace, you can't use your cell phone for
> data anymore. You need a separate account/plan now.
>
> Joe
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