And if you think GSM roaming charges for talking are high, take a look at GPRS data charges; last summer we were in Irish cottages with no phone so we used GPRS to download our email, until we received a 42 MegaByte video of our godson Keller William's daughter dancing on the sands of Virginia Beach, i.e., until I discovered the seemingly low data fee of .0192/KB when roaming worked out to $19.20 per MegaByte, so I had paid over $800.00 to see the dance!
Thereafter, I webmailed first and set aside any attachments for download when no longer roaming on GPRS. And, while the initial connection speed was always displayed to be 214.7 kilobits/sec, peak hour congestion on the GSM phone system clearly takes precedence over GPRS data, and the effective transfer rate was often only tens of bytes per second for extended periods. Barry Merrill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
