| Paul Miner 2006-06-29, 7:33 am |
| On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:52:07 -0700, "Joel Kolstad"
< JKolstad71HatesSpam@
yahoo.com> wrote:
>"C C" <someone@atsbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>news:eCVng.29035$VE1.12161@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>
>Sure, you can do it, but that doesn't mean you aren't going to charged up the
>wazoo for it.
>
>The problem here is that, until quite recently, "phone as modem" usage was not
>officially allowed *at all* on Sprint -- but plenty of people did it anyway,
>and so long as the use was relatively small, Sprint didn't bother persuing
>people doing it. (In fact, until a year or so ago, on many phones it wasn't
>possible to tell whether data usage was from a "phone as modem" vs. just from
>the phone's built-in web browser.)
<SNIP>
Minor correction: Pre-PAM, it wasn't possible to tell whether data
usage was from a tethered phone vs. from a data card. It was always
easy to tell if data usage was from the phone's built-in browser.
--
Paul Miner
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