Re: Blackberry in Alaska?

I recently purchased an unlocked Treo 650 and popped my GCI SIM card
into it. Works perfectly. Full Internet access. I much prefer the Treo 650
over the Blackberry.

Don't think Internet access will work in Nome yet however.

-Christopher Erickson

----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Valentine <amv@akvalentine.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:01 am
Subject: Re: Blackberry in Alaska?

> I have a blackberry, and it works great. My service is with Cellular
> One. Mine was purchased by my employer, so I don't know exactly
> what we
> pay for it, but the line below has a price of $374 and the rumor
> aroundthe office is that it costs $90/month to use.
>
> We are also using a Blackberry Enterprise Server to handle to e-mail,
> but I am able to send messages directly to the device by mail to
> <myphonenumber>@mobile.celloneusa.com.
>
> I have also installed an SSH client on it, which allows me to log into
> my server remotely even if there is no computer available. The
> font is
> very small, but readable, if you don't have to spend all day
> looking at
> it. The SSH client is using the BES server, but when I installed the
> client, it gave me the option of using it's own TCP/IP stack, so
> presumably the BES server isn't required for it to work.
>
> Web browsing also works through the BES server.
>
> Our BES server is just a small 1U Dell server. I don't know it's
> specific specs, but I believe that it is a very low end server.
>
> Here is the one that I have.
> https://www.celloneusa.com/ECell/displayPhoneDetails.do?phoneId=1020
> (used 99507 as my zip)
>
> I don't know if it will work in Nome, but it does in Anchorage.
>
> Feel free to contact me with specific questions; I'll help out as much
> as I am able.
>
>
> Anthony Valentine
>
>
>
> Jim Dory wrote:
>
> >My manager asked me to pull down some costs to supply him with a
> >blackberry device.
> >
> >I know nothing of this technology so before I spend a lot of time
> >researching it, maybe someone knows the skinny on this that would
> save>me a bunch of time.
> >
> >I have researched a bit: the archives a couple years ago stated the
> >service was not available in Alaska then. I also looked at a few
> >google pages and see that lots of changes have been made in the last
> >year or two that may have allowed use in Alaska.. I don't know.
> >
> >Right now there is no budget cap, so if I need to tell him that I
> need>to launch a satellite or two, or put up an Alaska-wide
> network, go
> >ahead and give me those cost estimates - I'll happily pass them along
> >and see what happens. <grin>.
> >
> >We are in Nome without roaming cellular access. (Works here but now
> >elsewhere). There is a city-wide internet-access wireless service
> that>someone is providing on a subscription basis here. So this
> may or may
> >not be feasible here, je ne sais pas. I guess there's lots of aspects
> >of the blackberry: phone, text messageing, web browsing, email (the
> >biggy) and phone, if not others.
> >
> >Much obliged for any insigts! cheers, Jim
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