[SATLUG] [OT] Cell phone rant / open source idea

[Brad Knowles]

Among other things, all carriers I know of explicitly prohibit VOIP or  
Skype and will terminate your account with prejudice if they catch you  
violating their TOS on things like this.

Voice is voice and data is data and never the twain shall meet, so far  
as they are concerned.

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-Internet.org>

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 17, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Alex Bartonek  
<bartonekdragracing at yahoo.com> wrote:

> My fiance (sp?) and I have cell phone service through
> Verizon and I swear, if its not one thing its
> another.. that bill is $153, $200, etc.. never the
> original $80 that we're expecting.  First it was my
> data plan (expected) so I got rid of it and downgraded
> to a cheap phone, but somehow I was still getting
> charged.  I later found out that it was because we
> text message too much, so I add a text message plan
> yet there is still a data charge.  Chaps my hide.
>
> So I was thinking....(uh oh).
>
> What if I get Verizon's wireless plan (the PCMCIA card
> if they offer it like Sprint does), get Skype In/Out
> and just power up my laptop to check messages etc.
> Skype works on linux so it should be good to go.  I'd
> have a one time bill from skype and a montly $50
> internet fee from Verizon.
>
> -Alex
>
>
>
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