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RE: Wireless Internet - Wireless Wearable ? ATL, GA Area?

Thanks for the info, I have looked at GoAmerica but they run about $60/month
for the HPC, and that is alot of digital cell. air time now days...

GoAmerica does use BellSouth, it is not 'CDPD' but Bell's South own
'Mobitex'. I assuming besides the name, Mobitex is CDPD (?) but the
BellSouth sales people say it is not, but can't tell me how it is
different... GoAmerica even lists is as a totally separate service.

Currently, from my understanding, there is no generic CDPD available in
Atlanta. Bell Atlanta has no BellSouth agreements and thus does not support
Atlanta,

ATT does have the best price I've seen so far, but really weak coverage,
Atlanta is a major city and no CDPD at ALL (my house is not even in ATTs
current cell. network)...the Mobitex signal is even LOW (REALLY LOW) at my
house, 1 mile down the street it is great, but acrossing over the lake kills
the signal (?) and since that is GTEs area, Bellsouth is not going to place
a tower around here.

State to state roaming is not a real big thing for me, but I would like to
have metro Atlanta coverage (approx ~50m radius) and secondary major city
roaming (LA,SF,LV,NY).

Rant on:
I would even be happy with an IR modem connection between my c-phone and
HPC, but noooooooo Nokia will not produce a driver for the 6160, they have
it for the 8810, but no USA release for that phone. OK, how about a serial
cable for the Nokia, "...that is available on the 8810 only...oh the 8810 is
not available in the USA...please call in about 3 to 4 months there might be
some new cables for the 6160 available..". I be lucky if they are even still
making the 6610 in 4 months... How about an Erk. phone, "cables will be
available by the end of 1st quarter, but no guarantees, it might be 2nd or
3rd quarter..."...
Rant off:

-bob (just need to move to a city with a good cell-telecom infrastructure)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Williams [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 1999 4:42 PM
> To: ; 
> Subject: Re: Wireless Internet - Wireless Wearable ? ATL, GA Area?
>
>
> You should try Bell Atlantic. I think GoAmerica uses BellSouth for CPDP in
> Atlanta.  http://www.goamerica.net/ AT&T has the best price but GoAmerica
> has the largest coverage.
>
> Robert Nees wrote:
>
> > Is anyone using a wireless IP service in Atlanta, GA?
> >
> > I was checking ATT, but Atlanta is not even a secondary city for them...
> >
> > BellSouth has a great wireless pager network, but nothing
> commerical for IP
> > connections.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > -bob
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ken Williams [mailto:]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 4:04 PM
> > > To: 
> > > Subject: Wireless Internet - Wireless Wearable ?
> > >
> > >
> > > The one thing that is still limiting my wearable dreams ;-)
> is wireless
> > > connectivity.
> > >
> > > The only way I know to get a wearable on the internet with
> off the shelf
> > > products is
> > > buying a CPDP modem and then getting CPDP Internet services.
> If you know
> > > anything about this subject or have your own setup/dream  please
> > > post.  I am
> > > looking for information on wireless modems and wireless
> internet service
> > > including
> > > CPDP, CDMA or what ever.
> > >
> > > The only viable option I see is the $55/mo AT&T Wireless Internet
> > > (www.attws.com)
> > > service and buying a PCMCIA II CPDP modem or
> > > the Sage(http://www.novatelwireless.com/html/sage.htm) which uses
> > > a COM port
> > > (a PCMCIA com port replicator is a great thing) but I'm not sure
> > > if the Sage
> > > will work
> > > with Linux (Sage has its own built-in TCP/IP stack).  I have a
> > > Win98 wearable
> > > and
> > > a Linux wearable.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help, news, info.  I'm sure others have a lot of
> > > interest in
> > > this subject.
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > >
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