@thescrooge: I believe you get a $10 discount for an aircard if you also have a phone with sprint. I don't understand why non of the carriers give a better discount, but this is surely going to hurt the homebrew world if sprint gets pissed (for lack of a better word). I liked it back in the day when I had a $40 Phone as Modem plan that let me tether AND get internet access on my phone. This made sense. (I used to pay $35 base + $40 internet). Now it's set up completely opposite. You don't have that option but while losing PAM connectivity, I get sprint navigation, limited sprint tv and sprint radio, unlimited texts and MMS.
Is navigation, text, and mms worth $50 it costs for an aircard plan? no, but maybe $20 - $30 for unlimited PAM is a reasonable value. Still, I think $5 to have to option to have PAM connectvitiy up 500 mb (1gb may be pushing it) would probably be reasonable. the idea is for people like me who may use it in "emergencies" or when truly necessary. Really, a sliding scale makes the most sense, but if water and power utilities have trouble explaining this to customers, I highly doubt a cell phone company can.
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@thescrooge: I believe you get a $10 discount for an aircard if you also have a phone with sprint. I don't understand why non of the carriers give a better discount, but this is surely going to hurt the homebrew world if sprint gets pissed (for lack of a better word). I liked it back in the day when I had a $40 Phone as Modem plan that let me tether AND get internet access on my phone. This made sense. (I used to pay $35 base + $40 internet). Now it's set up completely opposite. You don't have that option but while losing PAM connectivity, I get sprint navigation, limited sprint tv and sprint radio, unlimited texts and MMS.
Is navigation, text, and mms worth $50 it costs for an aircard plan? no, but maybe $20 - $30 for unlimited PAM is a reasonable value. Still, I think $5 to have to option to have PAM connectvitiy up 500 mb (1gb may be pushing it) would probably be reasonable. the idea is for people like me who may use it in "emergencies" or when truly necessary. Really, a sliding scale makes the most sense, but if water and power utilities have trouble explaining this to customers, I highly doubt a cell phone company can.