Hi Roger, you are definitely right about this-but I am living in Austria. Here, one meg of GPRS data costs you 1? on contract, and 1 minute of CSD goes for 0.1?... . If you don't have a data contract, you pay 24 cent per 50KB or so.... I don't believe that MOBTEX was so expensive, it is only the carriers wanting to make lots and lots of cash IMHO... Just my 2 cents though Tam Hanna-http://tamspalm.blogspot.com
Roger Stringer wrote: >Subject: Mobitex lives-was(Re: Palm VII device with Emulator) >From: "Tam Hanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:16:51 +0100 > >Hi you all, >from what I know cingular still runs its Mobitex service in the US. The only >thing that happened: PalmOne shut down their DNS servers and proxies for >whatever reasons. >If one could get the proxy somehow, I think that a .net environment could be >resurrected-and it would be hell of a competitor for BlackBerry-if managed >by a person who-well- doesn't have is head up his ... >Just my 2 cents... >Tam Hanna Keep in mind the Mobitex was (is) slow and had a high per-byte data cost and is really only suitable for relatively small text-based e-mail and messaging (ex: traditional Blackberry). Nowadays you really need to upgrade to at least a Treo 600 (which have dropped in price with introduction of the 650). No proxy required and lots of fast, cheap databytes. Roger Stringer Marietta Systems, Inc. (www.rf-tp.com) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
