On 7/4/2011 2:58 PM, K. M. Peterson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > There is, unfortunately, no completely metered mobile service. > > The most simple and least expensive is likely to be one of the prepaid > carriers. They are not completely metered, as you do get a bucket (that is, > an allowance for usage that expires).
I want to follow up on this thread from a couple months ago. I did finally find a completely metered mobile service, from PlatinumTel: http://www.platinumtel.com/plans/realpaygo The catch is that if you buy less than $100 worth of air time, the credits expire after a certain amount of time, meaning that you are in effect paying a certain minimum rate per month even if you use the phone not at all. BUT, if you buy $100 credit, it never expires. Obviously I will have to keep the phone for many years to make this actually work out economically, but that is what I intend to do. I bought a LG Lotus, which is a "dumb" phone from a few years ago. It receives text messages, there is a email to SMS gateway, and it has a rudimentary web browser. No ssh client though, but I trust that I will always be close enough to a real machine with a keyboard that it would be faster to get there than to try to ssh through the phone. - Alex Aminoff BaseSpace.net _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
