-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You should look at a wifi enabled phone instead. I have not yet seen any data plans from any Canadian provider that makes this anywhere near cost effective.
I have a client with an EVDO card in one of their laptops. Bell seems to have the best plan, but at $100 for 1 gig of traffic, this is hardly economical for VOIP. The next plan is $60 for 30 MB. I have seen some howtos on the net that use a GSM gateway. Basically you take the sim card from a GSM phone and put it in GSM gateway. You then add that number to your frequently dialed friends. Of course edge does not have the same coverage as EVDO or 1x and seems to have a bit more latency as well. Royce Souther wrote: > Is anyone working with a data only cell phone to connect to an Asterisk > server? > > I want to look at getting a Linux based phone that will let me SIP to my > Asterisk server over a data only connection like EVDO or 1X where EVDO > is not available. > > I am looking at this phone that may do what I need. > http://cgi.ebay.com/GSM-WiFi-802-11b-g-Smart-Cell-Phone-PDA-VOIP-Linux-MP3_W0QQitemZ120179941104QQihZ002QQcategoryZ32233QQcmdZViewItem > <http://cgi.ebay.com/GSM-WiFi-802-11b-g-Smart-Cell-Phone-PDA-VOIP-Linux-MP3_W0QQitemZ120179941104QQihZ002QQcategoryZ32233QQcmdZViewItem> > > I think Bell has a data only package. Does anyone have details about > such a service? > > Has anyone set this up? What equipment are you using? The > http://www.openmoko.com/ <http://www.openmoko.com/> is not ready for > sale yet but I would like to here from anyone that has seen it what they > think it. > > -- > You need music, music needs you; but the RIAA we'd all be better off > without. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHMRFXwRXgH3rKGfMRAh2QAJ9/4RZ7337si39MCfxYzF7CX0eFhwCfc7Ur KuBvFDOpNeS0LqZcznqOWH8= =kYxL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
