I use Sprint PCS with good success in New York and as I travel to
access email and look at preselected urls. Its only 14.4, but it
works well. In my area the cost is $75 for 2000 min., voice or data
access.
Tom Klinkowstein
At 6:33 AM -0700 5/30/00, chuck goolsbee wrote:
>>I live on my Ricochet modem. The bad news
>>is that it only offically work in Seattle, Washington
>>DC and the bay areaI. Unoffically it works at many
>>other cities across the US.
>
>I've been a happy ricochet user on and off since 1995.
>They should be open in about 20 metro areas by end of year. They
>have pushed the selling of the service to other copanies. Metricom
>is only building the network.
>
>They'll all be 128Kbs too.
>
>I too have given up on using a mobile phone for net access. I did it
>while living in Europe and was shocked at how poor the quality of
>access and how high the prices was. Ricochet service was one of the
>many things I missed while abroad (cheap gas, and quality tex-mex
>being some others high on my list. =)
>
>Check with them and see if they'll be available in your area.
>
>
>--chuck goolsbee
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