Re: Blackberry in Alaska?

Thanks Anthony.

Do you think this $90/month may include the regular CellularOne plan,
or is that in addition to the regular cellular phone charges? The
question is if someone does not have a plan with them, would that
monthly figure (or close) be the sum total of charges, besides perhaps
cost/minute of phone calls.

I can run these figures by him and see if he wants me to refine them
or if they exceed what he had hoped for, considering it not being
usable in Nome.

cheers, Jim

On 4/27/05, Anthony Valentine <amv@akvalentine.com> wrote:
> 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 around
> the office is that it costs $90/month to use.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Web browsing also works through the BES server.
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> 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.
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> Here is the one that I have.
> https://www.celloneusa.com/ECell/displayPhoneDetails.do?phoneId=3D1020
> (used 99507 as my zip)
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> I don't know if it will work in Nome, but it does in Anchorage.
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> Feel free to contact me with specific questions; I'll help out as much
> as I am able.
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> Anthony Valentine
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> Jim Dory wrote:
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> >My manager asked me to pull down some costs to supply him with a
> >blackberry device.
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Received on Wed Apr 27 10:23:13 2005