GPRS on Fido is 30$ per MEG

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I had a Telus cell and Telus landline until recently when the cell contract expired. Telus offered me as a good customer a rather lousy renewal contract, so I cancelled both the Telus cell and landline! And got a $25 Fido contract and Nokia cell, it's been working fine.

I have the unlimited incoming calls package with free evenings/weekends which suits me very well. The Telus cell coverage was a little better in my area but for my daily activities Fido is good, and will be better when Rogers integrates their GSM network with Fido's.

I had the Fido Sony T610 phone with camera, etc, kinda slick but the damn thing locked up on me and I had to remove the battery to fix it - that to me is unacceptable, common problem with that phone apparently, so I switched to the the very basic Nokia 3100 phone which is really better for the standard phone activities.

I'm hoping in a few years VOIP will be really cheap like $5 a month.

So right now I have:
- cell phone for normal communications (Fido GSM)
- cable internet (but no cable TV) (Shaw)
- satellite TV (ExpressVu)

All cool stuff and 30 years ago nobody would have thought we would have these technologies.

BTW Iv'e made good money investing in the companies that create these technologies, Nokia, Qualcomm, Dish Network, Intel, Microsoft, Dell, Apple etc etc. What's going to be the next big thing that can make us rich?

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker $100 / month for mobile EDGE? Already sounds affordable to me.

what can i say .. i'm a cheap mofo

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Originally posted by malek they don't use it (or maybe they do but you don't know about it) but their routers and other switching equipments are ready. you see you could be on an ipv6 network without knowing about it because your ipv4 packets are encapsulated in ipv6 packets between switching equipments

ipv6 in the core is a rarity. To save on ipv4 address', most providers use (internal) RFC 1918 address space.

Although ipv6 has some other niceties such as auto configuration and QoS, in today's world DHCP and QoS in ATM or MPLS networks or layer 3 based Diffserv (ToS bit) is perfectly fine. mmmmm MPLS is sexah!

Any ipv6 device that wants to be on the Internet will eventually need to cross a 6to4 tunneling gateway.

I use a freenet6 tunnel on my router (http://www.freenet6.net/). Many of the techie websites (ie Slashdot) have ipv6 connected webservers serving up their content.

http://slashdot.org.sixxs.org/
http://www.google.com.sixxs.org/

There are some ipv6 IRC servers as well. I might be linking one to ca-efnet as we don't have one yet. We shall see how much time I have...

To get your own ipv6 tunnel:
freenet6: http://www.freenet6.net/
6bone http://www.6bone.net
SixXS http://www.sixxs.net/

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Universal Religion

This is the most complete phone I've ever used ... been doing a lot of reserach on this bad boy. So many apps you can install for so many things that are so useful.

Agendus Pro
- Very advance Agenda with so many alarms to remind you of everything of everything and linked up to your e.mail, phone and sms connection.

BrightCam
- Adjust the LCD & keyboard lights to the lighting envoriment you are in. Dark place, dims the screen ... bright places, brighten your screen.

TCPMP
- Avi player that is flawless ... you can run full legnth moves perfectly.

Pocket Tune
-Mp3 Player that looks like winamp and iTunes.

Skinnner
-Changes your carrier boot up screen to anything you want and gives your dail pad many cool looking skins.

Verichat
- MSN, ICQ and AIM real time msging program. Looks just like the real MSN

Launcher X
- OS X and many other skins to make your phone look like OSx or WINXP

Uninstaller Manager
- Helps you keep your Treo clean, just like a computer ... unistall every type of hiden files left from deleting

Blazer
- Web broswer that fits the web perfect to your phone ... looks just like what you see on a comp monitor.

MovieRec
- Using the cam, to record movie clips and saves to AVI files.

SyncAll
- Forces to sync all your info to your comp, so if anything happens ... just resync it and you phone is back to normal w/ preferrences too. You can have upto 10,000 phone numbers and contacts saved on this phone ... so backing up is very importaint.

Official Games
- Namco, Midway, Capcom, Tatio and etc ... all ported perfectly to the Treo. Just like the arcade. NES ROM EMULATOR, load any NES ROM and play it just like yoru NES from back in the days.

Nexus Dictionary
- Helps you to look up words and def.

Spash ID
- Security inscription program for surffing the web

Voice Dailer
- Duhhhhhh

Wheather and Gas Update
- Updates you on the wheather and Gas prices around the city

Metro
- Maps of Subways of all the major Cities around the world.

GPS System
- Extra gdget for GPS unit.

Flight Status
- Gives you an update about the flights you are about to head off to.

Treo Area Code
- When you have a call, it will display the country map and location of the City or Town the call is coming from. Neat idea of those international business ppl.


Basicly ... whatever a computer can do, this can do. Just have to find the Palm OS apps and load it in.

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So many friends I know who bought the Motorola V3 has sold it soon after. The price you pay for a slim phone ... it's not really worth it. Why pay 600+ for just a phone without PDA functions?

The Sony Ericsoon P910i is amazing also.

BTW FIdo has UNLIMITED DATA for $50.00 a month. Download as much you can, keep MSN programs running and surf the web as much as you want on your PDA/Phone unit.

I turned on Verichat 13x, each time stayed on for 30 secs and msged 3 ppl ... appearntly I used 509K and without a data plan, this came upto $26.00.

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Here's the Palm Treo 650 ... this is even more powerful.

I hope to get this sucker in Sept when the price goes down and when all the bugs are fixed.

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Originally posted by Möbius A GSM network with EDGE/GPRS capabilites is often refered to as a 2.5g network. EDGE/GPRS is what basically gives your cell phone internet capabilities e-mail/web browsing etc. 3g refers to the next generation of standards, for GSM networks that means a migration to W-CDMA and for CDMA networks a migration to CDMA2000. With 3g standards carriers hope to provide users with data rates of up to 2Mbps

oh, so edge=grps, then i know what it is

but yeah thats nothing like 3g really so anyone knows when there is a 3G network comming to canada? or is there? and as for possible 3g here, are you going with the wcdma or the cdma2000 or both?

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Originally posted by E2EK1EL BTW FIdo has UNLIMITED DATA for $50.00 a month. Download as much you can, keep MSN programs running and surf the web as much as you want on your PDA/Phone unit.

I leave my laptop connected through my phone on all day while working sometimes, for email and MSN (when I can't get internet access any other way) .. The $50/month plan is great, works all across North America.

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Originally posted by tw1tch I leave my laptop connected through my phone on all day while working sometimes, for email and MSN (when I can't get internet access any other way) .. The $50/month plan is great, works all across North America.

hmm intresting, better than to pass thru the webfilters at work

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Originally posted by malek hmm intresting, better than to pass thru the webfilters at work

Exactly, most of the time onsite @ customer locations, they have a web proxy to get out and that's it. If MSN doesn't work through the proxy, I can use my phone, and I also use my phone for sending/receiving mail in outlook.