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To: Quincy who wrote (130145)	7/14/2003 3:36:44 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

$600 for a scungy little Gtran PCMCIA card to enable slow 1xRTT service from Telecom New Zealand which costs $4 a megabyte on a casual basis. Compared with that WiFi PCMCIA cards are only $40 or so and more devices are having it built in for no extra charge - just part of the device design. That runs at 330kbps on RoamAD and faster up close and personal on a hotspot, with data charges of something like 20c a megabyte planned. I don't see why people would pay more for slower service. I haven't bought the 1xRTT card but I bought Telecom's ADSL service. I'm not prepared to pay so much for 1xRTT data, so I'm doing without. A cable to get from a 1xRTT phone to a notebook computer would be $100. Tarken [son] bought one [he needs it for just-in-case for business and tried it out recently from Otorohanga on the way back to Auckland - I "chatted" to him via MSMessenger using WiFi on the RoamAD network downtown while he was glitching and paying on Telecom's bad service. Telecom has coverage going for them, but not much else. Plenty of people in central Auckland are more interested in price than coverage [most of the time]. Mqurice