[Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness

Jay Milk jay at skimmilk.net
Thu Sep 23 15:40:33 MST 2004


Wait... So VZW offers this free nationwide plan but you can't use it?  I
think they'd have a difficult time slapping you with a fine just because
you happened to only make/receive calls at home/work for a while.
That's another good reason to move away from Verizon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Thompson [mailto:asteriskuser at aktzero.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:57 PM
> To: Joe Antkowiak; Asterisk Users Mailing List - 
> Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and 
> general happiness
> 
> 
> Joe Antkowiak wrote:
> > if you bought a 2 phone no-minute plan with unlimited mobile to 
> > mobile, and used * to connect one of your phones to your 
> unlimited ld 
> > at home, you could essentially get very cheap unlimited mobile
> > calling...   this was the point I was trying to make...   Yes, it
> > would be a pain to dial twice, but with all these 
> smartphones and pda 
> > phones out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that 
> > could easily talk to * via the mobile to mobile call...
> 
> Just be careful, my VZW contract states that mobile-to-mobile doesn't 
> apply when one of the lines is "fixed" or makes a majority of 
> it's call 
> from a single cell site.
> 
> Take the phone out and use it somewhere else a couple of 
> times a month.




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