>I have a customer currently using PageNet for communications from the
>field to their main office. (Motorola IDEN model I390) They want to
>access their database with a PDA. Should they take advantage of their
>cell phone/pager or is there a better method?
That's a pretty wide open question. Any suggestions as to what constitutes
"better"? Is better--faster, less expensive, easiest to deploy, one that
requires no new equipment?
The phone has a small screen and circuit-switched data, not the most
efficient transport in the world. But they have the hardware and are
familiar with it. If they're paying analog rates for circuit switched data,
it's probably a bit expensive unless they already have fixed rate
voice/data plan. A fixed rate plan via BellSouth, for packet data, might be
more cost effective, but they would have to buy new hardware and probably
develop custom software.
More details would be helpful. Type of database is an important piece of
information too.
Regards,
Steve Mann
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