Cell Phones

[Tiramisu]

Originally Posted by gja1000

Getting to the internet through wireless means that you have to have a wireless signal to access the internet. I have wireless here at my house, and I think I remember that you do too. So I can get on my iphone through my wireless when I am at home. However, if I am at the grocery store, which does not have a wireless access and I want to get on the internet to check 4womentalk - then I have to go through my cellphone number. If I didn't have access to the internet through the cellphone number (connection), then I couldn't get on the internet at the grocery store.

My other phone, T-Mobile Dash, I didn't pay to have access to the internet through the phone number so I could only get on the internet when I had access to a wireless signal.

Now, with the iphone, I pay the extra $29 per month and I can access the internet any where I have a cellphone signal. That means that I can get on the internet 99% of the time, whereas when I could only get on when I could access a wireless signal, then my time on the internet was much less.

Does that make sense????

So, Janet, the IPhone would work just like Ricky's ITouch. AND, for $29/m, with the IPhone, you would get internet almost everywhere - going down the road in your bus.

[gja1000]

Sandy, that is the same plan that Gary and I have - we share 700 minutes - plus I have unlimited texting because my g-daughter texts me ALL THE TIME! My daughter texts me some too when I am in meetings and can't answer the phone.

I also have a discount through the University of Texas - I think it is a 20% discount.

[Tiramisu]

Nice discount!

Harold actually carries two cell phones - his company got him one last year, when we had just renewed our personal contract. They wouldn't port his number or try to transfer the account. All the kids have their own service, so I'm just hoping to run across somebody who'll take over his part or we'll pay it another year and not renew it.