SPCS announces EV-DO release

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Just came across this news ditty and thought that some of you folks might be
interested ...

http://tinyurl.com/8c8jt

Bob ::Noticing that they have put a cap on the expense for personal accounts
@ $90/mo.::

 

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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:06:59 GMT, "Bob Smith"
<usirsclt_No_Spam_@earthlink.net> wrote:

>http://tinyurl.com/8c8jt
>
>Bob ::Noticing that they have put a cap on the expense for personal accounts
>@ $90/mo.::

Heh. Nice guys, huh? $90 a month!

I think Verizon's EV-DO is pretty much a lot less than that. Not that
there aren't other problems with them.

I think all the cellular carriers are on drugs or something. We don't
want this stuff, jammed down our throats this way. We want what we
want. Not all these scams and schemes.

 

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Steevo@my-deja.com wrote:

>>Bob ::Noticing that they have put a cap on the expense for personal accounts
>>@ $90/mo.::
>
> Heh. Nice guys, huh? $90 a month!
>
> I think Verizon's EV-DO is pretty much a lot less than that. Not that
> there aren't other problems with them.

Does Verizon do unlimited for individual/non-business accounts? (or for
businesses, for that matter.)

I mean, think of this. This essentially means you can use as much data as
you want and not pay more than $90 if you're an individual or $80 if you're
a business.

I agree with some of the other stuff you've posted about Sprint, but I think
you're off base here.

I think what we really have to do is compare apples to apples. T-Mobile and
Cingular have data plans, right? T-Mobile has a $30 wifi plan too, but
that's not cellular, it's wifi.

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Verizon has the SAME price of $80. I switched from Verizon to Sprint and
previously used their data services. Sprint Rules! (Especially the phone
selection and coverage in Southern California)

"Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in message
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> Steevo@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>>>Bob ::Noticing that they have put a cap on the expense for personal
>>>accounts
>>>@ $90/mo.::
>>
>> Heh. Nice guys, huh? $90 a month! I think Verizon's EV-DO is pretty
>> much a lot less than that. Not that
>> there aren't other problems with them.
>
> Does Verizon do unlimited for individual/non-business accounts? (or for
> businesses, for that matter.)
>
> I mean, think of this. This essentially means you can use as much data as
> you want and not pay more than $90 if you're an individual or $80 if
> you're a business.
>
> I agree with some of the other stuff you've posted about Sprint, but I
> think you're off base here.
>
> I think what we really have to do is compare apples to apples. T-Mobile
> and Cingular have data plans, right? T-Mobile has a $30 wifi plan too, but
> that's not cellular, it's wifi.
>
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>
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:59:47 GMT, "Steevo@my-deja.com"
<steevo@my-deja.com> wrote:
>I think all the cellular carriers are on drugs or something.

As that statement pertains to pricing for EV-DO, I'd have to agree.
From the article that Bob posted, the charge will be $40/month for 40
megabits (Mbits) of data.

40 Mbits * 1024 kbits/Mbit = 40960 kbits
40960 kbits / 400 kbits/s =~ 102 seconds

So, I'd be paying $40 dollars for less than two minutes of data
transfer per month. Perhaps I'll pass on that. Instead, I'll pay a
few bucks for WiFi in the airport if I really need it, or use
Vision/laptop for a few minutes, or wait until I get to the hotel,
where Internet access is free (it's getting *much* easier to find
reasonbly priced hotels that offer free Internet access).

Joe Huber
huber.joseph@comcast.net

 

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"Steevo@my-deja.com" <steevo@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:06:59 GMT, "Bob Smith"
> <usirsclt_No_Spam_@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >http://tinyurl.com/8c8jt
> >
> >Bob ::Noticing that they have put a cap on the expense for personal
accounts
> >@ $90/mo.::
>
> Heh. Nice guys, huh? $90 a month!
>
> I think Verizon's EV-DO is pretty much a lot less than that. Not that
> there aren't other problems with them.
>
> I think all the cellular carriers are on drugs or something. We don't
> want this stuff, jammed down our throats this way. We want what we
> want. Not all these scams and schemes.

Scams & Schemes? Maybe this EV-DO service doesn't interest you, but there is
a multitude of folks out there that does interest them, to have the ability
to email to the home office, client, friends or family while on the road.
Or, for those folks who like to surf the net while away from their home or
business isp.

If I start getting on the road a bit more, I'll be subscribing to the
service, as a $90 monthly cost is cheap, when it comes to passing on data
from clients to home office or visa versa, in getting new business or
maintaining current customers.

Bob

 

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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:50:39 -0700, Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
wrote:

>Does Verizon do unlimited for individual/non-business accounts? (or for
>businesses, for that matter.)

$44.99 a month unlimited according to Verizon on the phone right now.
You have to have a blackberry or palm treo or other pda phone

$59.99 unlimited with a ev-do phone like an LG-VX8000

$5/month for mobile web, it comes out of your minutes on a regular
phone. If you have lotsa minutes that might be the cheapest.

Not sure what the difference is. I tried several at verizon, they all
seemed to be same speed for what I looked at. EV-DO seemed no better
for regular websites. Admittedly it was a brief test.

 

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Steevo@my-deja.com wrote:

> $44.99 a month unlimited according to Verizon on the phone right now.
> You have to have a blackberry or palm treo or other pda phone

Is that a promo? If not, I'm shocked that Verizon actually undercut Sprint
on price.

> Not sure what the difference is. I tried several at verizon, they all
> seemed to be same speed for what I looked at. EV-DO seemed no better
> for regular websites. Admittedly it was a brief test.

1xEVDO is supposed to be up to 400-500Kbps througput. 1xRTT tops out at a
theoretical limit of 115Kbps (ISDN speeds).

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Verizon EVDO is a lot faster than 1XRTT! I have used one of the Verizon
EVDO cards in the San Diego area and therefore have firsthand experience
with the performance. Verizon did not roll-out EVDO in all markets. Maybe
you were in a market where EVDO was not available.

"Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in message
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> Steevo@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>> $44.99 a month unlimited according to Verizon on the phone right now. You
>> have to have a blackberry or palm treo or other pda phone
>
> Is that a promo? If not, I'm shocked that Verizon actually undercut Sprint
> on price.
>
>> Not sure what the difference is. I tried several at verizon, they all
>> seemed to be same speed for what I looked at. EV-DO seemed no better
>> for regular websites. Admittedly it was a brief test.
>
> 1xEVDO is supposed to be up to 400-500Kbps througput. 1xRTT tops out at a
> theoretical limit of 115Kbps (ISDN speeds).
>
> --
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Joseph Huber wrote:
> So, I'd be paying $40 dollars for less than two minutes of data
> transfer per month. Perhaps I'll pass on that. Instead, I'll pay a
> few bucks for WiFi in the airport if I really need it, or use
> Vision/laptop for a few minutes, or wait until I get to the hotel,
> where Internet access is free (it's getting *much* easier to find
> reasonbly priced hotels that offer free Internet access).

Yep. I stayed at a Comfort Suites hotel recently, and the whole
chain has free WiFi in all rooms. Even if you're not a payin guest,
you can go sit in the lobby and use their WiFi.

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On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 04:25:40 GMT, "John Richards"
<jr70@blackhole.invalid> wrote:

>Joseph Huber wrote:
>> So, I'd be paying $40 dollars for less than two minutes of data
>> transfer per month. Perhaps I'll pass on that. Instead, I'll pay a
>> few bucks for WiFi in the airport if I really need it, or use
>> Vision/laptop for a few minutes, or wait until I get to the hotel,
>> where Internet access is free (it's getting *much* easier to find
>> reasonbly priced hotels that offer free Internet access).
>
>Yep. I stayed at a Comfort Suites hotel recently, and the whole
>chain has free WiFi in all rooms. Even if you're not a payin guest,
>you can go sit in the lobby and use their WiFi.

Perhaps slightly OT for this group, but how did they provide WiFi in
each room? The reason I ask is that I recently spent a night at a Days
Inn where they initially claimed that every room had WiFi available. I
couldn't get squat so I called the Front Desk and the guy said he had
a Linksys WRT-54G down in the lobby. Hmmm, I thought, that means there
are about 40 walls to pass through, so no wonder I didn't see any
signal up in my room at the far end of the building. I'm just curious
how they get a usable signal into each room at Comfort Suites.

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In article <n4gze.6007$aY6.5088@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
"Bob Smith" <usirsclt_No_Spam_@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Scams & Schemes? Maybe this EV-DO service doesn't interest you, but there is
> a multitude of folks out there that does interest them, to have the ability
> to email to the home office, client, friends or family while on the road.
> Or, for those folks who like to surf the net while away from their home or
> business isp.
>
> If I start getting on the road a bit more, I'll be subscribing to the
> service, as a $90 monthly cost is cheap, when it comes to passing on data
> from clients to home office or visa versa, in getting new business or
> maintaining current customers.

A couple years ago, I would have jumped on that, and I never travel.
For the first year I lived in my current apartment, the best internet
connection I could get was 128 kbit/second ISDN.

For the next year or so, the best I could get was 144 kbit/second IDSL,
for around $100 month.

That EV-DO at $90/month would have been a much better deal.

(Since then, Sprint started offering real DSL here, and the cable
company started offering internet service, so $90/month EV-DO is no
longer exciting, since, like I said, I never travel).

--
--Tim Smith

 

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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:15:36 -0700, Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
wrote:

>Steevo@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>> $44.99 a month unlimited according to Verizon on the phone right now.
>> You have to have a blackberry or palm treo or other pda phone
>
>Is that a promo? If not, I'm shocked that Verizon actually undercut Sprint
>on price.
>
>> Not sure what the difference is. I tried several at verizon, they all
>> seemed to be same speed for what I looked at. EV-DO seemed no better
>> for regular websites. Admittedly it was a brief test.
>
>1xEVDO is supposed to be up to 400-500Kbps througput. 1xRTT tops out at a
>theoretical limit of 115Kbps (ISDN speeds).

For me, the difference between EV-DO and 1xRTT is like night and day.
I typically run Outlook over a VPN, against an Exchange mail server,
and while it's dog slow over 1xRTT it's extremely usable over EV-DO.
Sharing a document via NetMeeting also illustrates the improvement.

--
Paul Miner

 

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John Richards wrote:
> Joseph Huber wrote:
>> Vision/laptop for a few minutes, or wait until I get to the hotel,
>> where Internet access is free (it's getting *much* easier to find
>> reasonbly priced hotels that offer free Internet access).
>
> Yep. I stayed at a Comfort Suites hotel recently, and the whole
> chain has free WiFi in all rooms. Even if you're not a payin guest,
> you can go sit in the lobby and use their WiFi.

I travel a lot on business. Most all of the hotels I've stayed at that
offer free WiFi use a proxy server-based authentication system. You are
given a password at check-in, and sometimes the password must be used
with a username (generally, your room number).

In fact, the last Comfort Suites I stayed in did exactly that (password
only). So while I could certainly use WiFi in the lobby, someone
wandering in off the street without a password could not (as, IMO, it
should be).

At the (few) hotels I stayed at that had didn't use proxy
authentication, WiFi was generally poorly setup, and of course very
insecure--as were the users (just as a test, I was able to get full
access to some clueless user's C: drive). Amazing...


--
Mike

 

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Perhaps Sprint is pricing to EV-DO to cover it's intital rollout.....??

I wonder if Sprint will support voip with EV-DO...??

Another question is what will happen with Sprint PCS- Vision.....??

In any case things will very interesting...??

 

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"Mij Adyaw" <mijadyaw@nospam.net> writes:

>Verizon has the SAME price of $80. I switched from Verizon to Sprint and
>previously used their data services. Sprint Rules!

I purchased a 1xRTT connection card from Sprint awhile ago. I was
disappointed by the performance so I returned it within the trial
period.

I really want EV-DO performane (low latency, specifically). I called
Sprint this week and asked about picking up one of the EV-DO-capable
cards (the S620). After getting swatted around a few times (and
dropped altogether) I was finally told that I'd have to provide a
business tax ID to get one.

Apparently they only like my money for the three phones I've had with
them for years.

I've been advised to use Verizon and that VZW will have EV-DO here (in
West Lafayette, IN) before Sprint.

--kyler

 

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Sprint EVDO is not anymore expensive than Verizon EVDO. It is $80.00 per
month. I will be upgrading the wireless card in my laptop next week to
support EVDO. I do not know what you guys are bellyaching about.

-mij

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> Perhaps Sprint is pricing to EV-DO to cover it's intital rollout.....??
>
> I wonder if Sprint will support voip with EV-DO...??
>
> Another question is what will happen with Sprint PCS- Vision.....??
>
> In any case things will very interesting...??
>

 

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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:15:36 -0700, Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
wrote:
>Steevo@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>> $44.99 a month unlimited according to Verizon on the phone right now.
>> You have to have a blackberry or palm treo or other pda phone
>
>Is that a promo? If not, I'm shocked that Verizon actually undercut Sprint
>on price.
No, I don't think so.

For some reason I had thought that unlimited web was less than that if
you had an EV-DO phone on VZW. That is the price that was quoted me
as a non customer on the phone yesterday.

I think Sprint is overcharging. Maybe their network has low capacity
so they are not being price competitive to keep the problems from
manifesting themselves. I can believe that.
>
>> Not sure what the difference is. I tried several at verizon, they all
>> seemed to be same speed for what I looked at. EV-DO seemed no better
>> for regular websites. Admittedly it was a brief test.
>
>1xEVDO is supposed to be up to 400-500Kbps througput. 1xRTT tops out at a
>theoretical limit of 115Kbps (ISDN speeds).

I didn't watch any videos.

What I did was look at the same exact ebay auction page with an LG
VX8000 (EV-DO), an LG VX7000 (same phone but no EV-DO) and another
phone that was there on the kiosk. They all seemed to load that page
at a similar speed. The EV-DO didn't seem to help at all!

I expected the VX8000 to be way faster. But it wasn't.

 

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hizark21@yahoo.com wrote:

> I wonder if Sprint will support voip with EV-DO...??

Why? There's no point.

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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:34:50 -0700, "Mij Adyaw" <mijadyaw@nospam.net>
wrote:

>Sprint EVDO is not anymore expensive than Verizon EVDO. It is $80.00 per
>month. I will be upgrading the wireless card in my laptop next week to
>support EVDO. I do not know what you guys are bellyaching about.

Sprint's EV-DO may not be more expensive than Verizion's, but they are
both significantly more expensive than competing high-speed internet
technology such as DSL and cable. EV-DO costs twice as much per month
as my cable internet connection, three times as much as DSL would
cost me, is 3-5 times slower than my cable interent, and initially, at
least for Sprint, is going to very limited geographically as to where
I could actually use it.

Given that WiFi is available for a few bucks in most airports, many
reasonably priced hotels have some type of high-speed Internet access,
and the fact that right now, there's a better chance of me, as a
business traveler, not being able to use EV-DO at any given location
than being able to use it, how does one justify paying $80/month for
this service? It makes no economic sense.

Joe Huber
huber.joseph@comcast.net

 

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Joseph Huber wrote:

>>Sprint EVDO is not anymore expensive than Verizon EVDO. It is $80.00 per
>>month. I will be upgrading the wireless card in my laptop next week to
>>support EVDO. I do not know what you guys are bellyaching about.
>
>
> Sprint's EV-DO may not be more expensive than Verizion's, but they are
> both significantly more expensive than competing high-speed internet
> technology such as DSL and cable.

This is what I don't understand, Joseph. You and many other people keep
complaining about the pricing being higher than DSL and cable. Yet Sprint's
Terms of Service *and* Verizon's Terms of Service PROHIBIT their wireless
data services from being used as an always-on Internet connection like DSL
and cable. The whole point is that with the EV-DO services you get
high-speed mobile data, not that you keep the phone or data card at home and
use it all the time from home.

You can't go from Los Angeles to Cleveland, for example, plug in your cable
modem or DSL modem from your LA cable provider and expect it to work in
Cleveland without setting up service in Cleveland.

You can't even drive to a house down the street that doesn't already have
cable (for example), and plug in the cable modem and make it work.

The mobility inherent in wireless data is why it's higher-priced. Why do you
think a gallon of milk is priced higher at a gas station convenience store
than at a grocery store? You don't have to wait in line for ten minutes at a
gas station. You can get in, find what you need pretty much instantly, and
get out at the C-store.

And convenience is definitely worth the extra money to some people,
otherwise gas stations wouldn't sell milk.

The same principle applies here.

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Joe,

You are correct regarding your comparison of EVDO to other high speed
alternatives. I travel frequently throughout the US and need constant access
to my email and other corporate network resources. Many folks at the company
that I work for have wireless laptop access that is provided by the company.

Regards,

-mij

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> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:34:50 -0700, "Mij Adyaw" <mijadyaw@nospam.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Sprint EVDO is not anymore expensive than Verizon EVDO. It is $80.00 per
>>month. I will be upgrading the wireless card in my laptop next week to
>>support EVDO. I do not know what you guys are bellyaching about.
>
> Sprint's EV-DO may not be more expensive than Verizion's, but they are
> both significantly more expensive than competing high-speed internet
> technology such as DSL and cable. EV-DO costs twice as much per month
> as my cable internet connection, three times as much as DSL would
> cost me, is 3-5 times slower than my cable interent, and initially, at
> least for Sprint, is going to very limited geographically as to where
> I could actually use it.
>
> Given that WiFi is available for a few bucks in most airports, many
> reasonably priced hotels have some type of high-speed Internet access,
> and the fact that right now, there's a better chance of me, as a
> business traveler, not being able to use EV-DO at any given location
> than being able to use it, how does one justify paying $80/month for
> this service? It makes no economic sense.
>
> Joe Huber
> huber.joseph@comcast.net

 

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Why not? I am sure that you could use Skype because I have tried it on my
1XRTT Sprint laptop card and it works!. Assume that you have the $80.00 per
month EVDO from Sprint, you could make all of your phone calls from your
laptop with Skype and not pay for airtime minutes.


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> hizark21@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> I wonder if Sprint will support voip with EV-DO...??
>
> Why? There's no point.
>
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Mij Adyaw wrote:
> Why not?

What point is there for the carrier that is already offering wireless CDMA
phone service to allow VoIP? Sprint bills per KB, not per minute, for data.
They'd not be able to bill a lot of airtime they otherwise COULD bill.

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On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 09:37:37 -0700, Steve Sobol wrote
>The mobility inherent in wireless data is why it's higher-priced. Why do you
>think a gallon of milk is priced higher at a gas station convenience store
>than at a grocery store? You don't have to wait in line for ten minutes at a
>gas station. You can get in, find what you need pretty much instantly, and
>get out at the C-store.

I don't dispute that the wireless mobile Internet should command a
premium, but the premium being asked is just way too high. Continuing
your analogy, the milk doesn't cost 2-3 times as much at the
convenience store, and it's of the same quality in both places
(sometimes, it's even the same brand!). Can you imagine a convenience
store trying to sell milk of lesser quality (whatever that would be)
at 2-3 times the price? I don't think it would work very well.

Also, I no longer have to wait in line 10 minutes at the grocery store
because they now have self checkout, the grocery store never runs out
of milk, it's open 24/7, and at least where I live, there are plenty
of conveniently located grocery stores. Buying milk at the
convenicence store makes no economic sense. I don't dispute that
people do it, I just don't understand why they throw their money away.

Similarly, EV-DO, at least right now, seems to me like I would just
be throwing money away. If I was actually going to use my laptop
while driving down the road, then EV-DO would serve a purpose,
provided there was actually service where I was driving. However, as
I've posted before, if I'm waiting for a flight and want to do some
work, airport WiFi is much cheaper. If I need to work at my hotel, I
stay at one that has free Internet. Every client or vendor that I've
visited recently has allowed me to connect up to their network if I
needed Internet access. In each case, I get a much faster Internet
access for cheap/free.

Right now, I just don't see that many instances where I could actually
use Sprint EV-DO that don't have a faster and much cheaper/free
Internet option. The little burger joint that I go to for lunch has
WiFi now. I guess it depends on your needs, but it seems to me that
for the majority of business travelers, who seem to be the ones that
Sprint is targeting for EV-DO, $80/month cannot be justified given the
availabity of other options.

Joe Huber
huber.joseph@comcast.net