On 4/28/06, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, can it be said that the Verizon system is the one to have?
As Frank says, it depends on where you are. At the present time, both carriers have EVDO coverage where the other does not. Verizon's maps show coverage along the I-10 from Santa Monica all the way to Indio and on the 101 as far west as Ventura. Sprint's maps show some gaps in coverage along both routes though they show that they plan to cover pretty much all of the area that Verizon now covers, plus add coverage along the I-40 all the way to Kingman, nearly all of the I-15 to past north 93 exit northeast of Las Vegas. Sprint currently has exclusive EVDO coverage in Twentynine Palms, Pahrump, Reno, Carson City and South Lake Tahoe. Verizon has exclusive EVDO coverage of Barstow, Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear Lake, Laughlin and Mesquite, though Sprint has those areas planned for future coverage (except maybe for Mesquite, though I think they do intend to cover that). http://www.evdoforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1841&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=308a412f5568859b8939b34af423f546 has links to the coverage maps for Sprint, Verizon and Alltel EVDO maps and Cingular's HSPDA maps. > Is it possible to use blue tooth from the cellphone to the laptop and get > Verizon to provide the ISP connection for straight air-time charges? Yes, with the older, slower, 1XRTT (maybe a bit faster than a dialup connection on a landline) coverage. I used a Motorola V710 that way, though I had to install hacked firmware on the phone to get that to work. Using the phone as a modem using a USB cable doesn't require any hacks. If you want to use one of Verizon's EVDO capable phones as a modem, you'd need to have a data plan of some kind, unless you only want to use it with 1XRTT. Some of their phones officially support tethering via USB and Bluetooth. The XV6700 (which is also a PDA) does not, but can be made to work without much difficulty (Google for information on how to do it.) The Sprint PPC 6700 (same phone but a different color) officially does support tethering and you can do it on a plan that costs $30 for 200 minutes of voice plus $40 for umlimited data. The least expensive way to do it on Verizon is with an $80 "core choice" plan that includes 450 minutes voice and unlimited data (or an unlimited PDA data plan with no voice minutes for $45), though I believe it is technically against Verizon's terms of service to use your phone as a modem with either plan. Sprint's terms of service are more lenient than Verizon's. -- Stan Slonkosky --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
