Subj : Re: cellular services in Deutschland vs. USFA - and more USA complicat
To   : fU
From : Khelair
Date : Sun Mar 01 2015 21:27:00

  Re: Re: cellular services in Deutschland vs. USFA
  By: fU to Khelair on Sun Mar 01 2015 18:35:42

 fU> and i thought germany is complicated... ;)

  Oh just wait until the bit I get to tell you after this next paragraph. 
*grin*

 fU> yes it 9 pin serial but you can also find some usb-device as well. and
 fU> there is another option you can use. buy a old cellphone i.e. from nokia
 fU> with build-in-modem and a pc-cable from the phone to the computer. than
 fU> you have also a gsm-modem with its own battery and signalstrength
 fU> display. i used once the nokia 7110 cellphone and a serial data-cable as
 fU> a gsm-modem. it's a question of costs and for what you need it. the
 fU> external antenna on a compact gsm-modem maybe have a better
 fU> signalquality. but the 7110 also supports on the top backside a external
 fU> antenna-plug so you can choose what is the best solution for you :)

  That modem is outstanding.  With the data rates that we end up paying,
though, it'd have to be used for a very frugal amount of data.  I didn't know
that they sold them separate like that, though; that could be very useful.
  I've had a situation before where I had to rely on my cellphone as a modem
like that, as well.  I tethered it to my laptop and routed it to the other
machines that I had in my apartment at the time.  Best thing was, I had a good
friend at the store who told me that data didn't count as minutes.  She did
sales there, and she'd been friends for over a decade.  I figured she knew her
stuff pretty well.  So I had a permanent connection, but made sure not to blow
the data cap to incur additional fees.
  Well when my bill came it turns out that she was totally wrong about the
minutes...  I knew it was an honest mistake, so I didn't try to get it
resolved.  She had been at that company for a long time, has gone places in it,
and if I would've gotten her in trouble to the tune of a customer fee of over
$1600, she wouldn't have made it where she got today.  That's another things
that the companies love to do to you here...  They act like they know
everything, and train their people that way, but they put out inaccurate
information.  The consumer always pays the bottom line, except in rare cases.
  Gotta love the United States of Fascist America.

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