There's an issue with proxies and the way that the tmo dollar a day internet works. I was unable to do it with a sidekick sim and my treo 650
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 6:47 pm, Donna Becker wrote: > Hey Glen, > I'm a bit confused and I appreciate you responding to my question. I > called T-Mo prepaid and they said I cannot use my Samsung T509 tethered > to a laptop with a prepaid card for data. They said the prepaid cards > can be switched over to that $1 a day using a Sidekick. I really don't > want to buy a Sidekick. I simply want to be able to use my prepaid > minutes with a data plan - (actually for my husband) using my Samsung > T509 as a modem. Is anyone out there using a prepaid card and their > phone as a modem to get online for a dollar a day? DonnaB > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Glen Bogle > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 3:16 PM > Subject: Re: [T-Mobile-US] Prepaid Question > > --- Donna Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Question 1 - If you have a T-Mo phone with modem capabilities is >> there anyway to use your prepaid minutes to get online with it >> tethered to your laptop? or Question 2 - If you have prepaid T-Mo >> minutes and buy a used T-Mo Sidekick can you use those sims with lots >> of minutes left to get online? DonnaB > > I've heard mixed results with people using a proxy to access the web > other than the basic T-Zones, but from what I've heard it works for > some but not all. > > If you have prepaid you can use Sidekick but you need to have customer > care make changes to your account. With prepaid sidekick you can do > unlimited email, web surf and unlimited domestic IM. It is $1 per day > even on days when you may not use the service. Voice calls are > 15ยข/minute for all denominations of PINs/card values. AFAIK you cannot > "tether" a laptop to a Sidekick. > > __________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ______________________ Daniel Koehler Technician Hopping Mad Audio and NYPD PAL aol/iChat: wacintoshinux - - T-Mobile-US on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/T-Mobile-US _ _ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
