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

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             "Robert Nees" <> writes:
>
>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.

Mobitex is a different network from CDPD, using a different underlying
packet protocol, and operating on different carrier frequencies.

There is Linux support for at least one of the PCMCIA Mobitex cards;
I've forgotten which one, and my notes are on a different machine.
This support allows either IP between two machines running these
special Mobitex drivers, or direct access to the Mobitex protocol
suite.

Also relevant: BellSouth offers Internet Access Service (IAS) for
Mobitex; this basically means fairly raw packet forwarding from
the Mobitex network to a single specific machine on the Internet
(one target per IAS subscription).  I don't know the details for
this offhand, either.

- Alex

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