Errrm... 3 in the UK have been doing a "Data Only" package for several years and many other UK providers are also doing it now under the label "Mobile Broadband" or "Mobile Internet".
Many of the tarriffs want you to buy a dongle, but if you talk to them and explain the situation you'll find that you can use the SIM in pretty much any 'phone (including the current Android devices) and they'll probably be pretty accomodating. For more details from the UK providers see; http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband http://broadband.o2.co.uk/mobile/ http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/mobile-internet/ http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/mobile-broadband http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=template06&pageID=MB_0007 Al. P.S. Not sure where you get your 9 million figure from. The NHS had 54,500 registered deaf and 164,600 registered hard of hearing at the end of March 2007. 9 million would represent a 4100% increase in 2 years which seems a little high (See http://www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/social-care/disability/people-registered-as-deaf-or-hard-of-hearing-year-ending-31-march-2007-england-ns) P.P.S. This is probably best moved to android-discuss as it doesn't have much to do with the API On Jun 29, 1:21 am, DavidDB <[email protected]> wrote: > Nine million people in the UK (15% of the population) suffer from > permanent, disabling hearing loss. > > The estimated demographic figure has ranged from 22 million deaf and > hard of hearing to as high as 36 million deaf and hard of hearing > worldwide. Of these, only a few million are considered "deaf" and the > remainder are hard of hearing but cannot use a phone. > > for 30 years this group has had to PAY for Unused "Call Time" and are > sick of it. > > I will launch a Data only package for registered DEAF users within 3 > months in the UK but wishes a a network would provide a worldwide > backbone for these services. > > the first phone available will be the HTC HERO but other ANDROID > phones will be introduced later in the year. > > I want to hear from DEAF Users - (especially the angry ones that are > fed up with the way DEAF users are treated) > > I especially want to hear from developers that can provide as real > time as possible SUBTITLES to speech. > > Switch on the app and anything heard by microphone could be sent to a > server for voice to text and squirted back to the phone. Come on IBM > we know you love Android :) > > So All you can eat Data Plan - Pay for calls as you go. a Lovely > Android Phone and best of all IF your a network it could add millions > of LOYAL customers and their mothers and brothers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
