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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Likely because ATT doesn’t expect you to download a 100 MB file
to your iPhone over 3G… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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general-bounces@brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces@brlug.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew
Baudouin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> general@brlug.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [brlug-general] new trend in netbooks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Isn't it already around $35 a
month to get data plans for an Iphone, for example? Why would ATT charge
any more for 3g netbooks?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Edmund Cramp <<a
href="mailto:eac@motion-labs.com">eac@motion-labs.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Looks nice but:<br>
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$499 w/o the data plan OR $99 w/ a two year $60/month data plan = $1539<br>
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It makes sense IF you're going to sign up for the data plan anyway but not
otherwise.<br>
<br>
Without getting into the "data just wants to be free" argument ...
Just what does a $60/month data plan do for you? That sound like a lot of
money to me.<br>
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Edmund Cramp<o:p></o:p></p>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:general-bounces@brlug.net">general-bounces@brlug.net</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:general-bounces@brlug.net">general-bounces@brlug.net</a>]
On Behalf Of c.a. weisheit<br>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 8:57 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:general@brlug.net">general@brlug.net</a><br>
Subject: [brlug-general] new trend in netbooks<br>
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retailers are starting to sell netbooks for a lower fee with commitment to 3g
services.<br>
I found this example:<br>
<a
href="http://www.radioshack.com/uc/index.jsp?page=researchLibraryArticle&articleUrl=../graphics/uc/rsk/USContent/HTML/pages/acernetbk.html&noBc=true"
target="_blank">http://www.radioshack.com/uc/index.jsp?page=researchLibraryArticle&articleUrl=../graphics/uc/rsk/USContent/HTML/pages/acernetbk.html&noBc=true</a><br>
<br>
companies in Japan etc. have been offering netbooks for $40 to $50 with
services for some time now. I look forward to more price drops and linux
compatible air cards.<br>
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