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More info?)
O/Siris wrote:
> In article <3f0ve0F5egb8U1@individual.net>, mlynch@REMOVEMEcitlink.net
> says...
>> I'm almost certain it is normal. First, while you can access
>> sprintpcs.com email on a PC, it is still a part of Vision--and I'm
>> pretty darn sure it was meant to be used with your phone. Second,
>> POP3 and online Web access are somewhat like bonuses (and make it
>> easier to, for instance, delete a large number of messages at one
>> time).
>>
>> Finally, "name" is (IIRC) your Vision username. You don't have
>> Vision, so it would seem likely you don't even have that username
>> anymore. I don't know how long Sprint PCS waits before recycling
>> usernames, but I would assume that name could belong to someone else
>> in a few months (if you have a common surname and used the default
>> username that Sprint PCS created for you).
>
> This is actually not true, by default. When a Vision phone is
> activated on the Sprint PCs system, the *capability* to use Vision is
> also activated, automatically. The billing is a penny per KB of data
> usage to or from the phone. Then you can choose to have or not have
> one of Vision "packs" that provide (among all the other stuff)
> unlimited data usage to and from the phone for a flat fee.
>
> If you simply tell a CSR that you no longer want to pay the $15, or
> $10 for Vision, then the billing "pack" gets removed, but this should
> not affect your Vision *capability*. Thus, the Vision Username stays
> in effect, and SprintPCS email along with it.
>
> There's an additional
> step to *completely* remove Vision, including the capability for it.
> But a customer has to specifically ask for it.
>
> Unless you asked to have it completely disabled, you should still be
> able to use PCS Mail.
Assuming you meant using PCS Mail on a PC without Vision doesn't incur a
fee, that doesn't make sense to me. Why is someone who cancels Vision
entitled to still use email with a PC without paying? Obviously it
wouldn't be practical to use Email on the handset and incur a per-KB
fee. You might as well have just paid the $10 per month.
Is this policy documented somewhere? (Free POP3 email to non-Vision
subscribers.) If it's not free and non-Vision subscribers were using it
thinking it was, perhaps SPCS started disabling it altogether to avoid
such issues (i.e., non-Vision users calling to complain about the
charges).
--
Mike