While at my local T-Mobile shop this past weekend I got into a conversation with the store manager. We both have considerable trepidation with respect to T-Mobile being possibly merged with Sprint/Nextel. He was a very nice guy and apologized…
Over at TMC they've blogged an accurate and concise yet biting overview of the problems of the telecom industry. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad. When will they get a clue. Deregulation was such a farce. OTOH, this…
The blogging great Om Malik has a rumor about Deutsche Telecom considering buying Sprint/Nextel to combine with it's US T-Mobile operation. Om and his readers point out some very valid technical concerns about merging the two companies. Combined they support…
The postal carrier left a tag on Friday. The Portech GSM gateway will arrive this week. Sadly, I must to be out of town most of the week. Perhaps I'll be able to get started with it next weekend.
The other day I called my cellular carrier, T-Mobile. They tell me that I can convert my plan to a “family plan” and add another phone. Further, it’d be ok if I provided the phone myself, perhaps an old GSM phone that I haven’t used in a while. I have an old Razr sitting a drawer somewhere. But I have other plans for the hardware.
I have a huge number of minutes on my plan as I often use my cell for tech support work that can go for hours. Then this week the US cellular market is rocked by new offers of “unlimited” minutes for $99/mo. That’s what I presently pay for my 2500 minute plan. Might have to change that plan soon. This just makes me think that I really should go forward with a plan to add a SIP-GSM gateway to my Astlinux setup.