Guest smeg36 Posted November 30, 2003 Report Posted November 30, 2003 I am using my SPV with T-Mobile service. I can't get the $20 unlimited internet plan, so I got the $5 unlimited T-Zones plan. After using the settings I found here, I am getting full web browsing, to any page I want. Is this how T-Zones is supposed to work? I thought it was just for the T-Mobile WAP page. Am I wrong? Thanks for any info you guys can give me.
Guest yoos Posted November 30, 2003 Report Posted November 30, 2003 Yea, that's correct ... :-$ :wink: :lol:
Guest smeg36 Posted November 30, 2003 Report Posted November 30, 2003 Sweet! Thanks for the reply. I set it up as a GPRS connection, and have yet to find a site I can't access. So what is the $20 plan for, just PPC's? Posted from my SmartPhone!
Guest nickcornaglia Posted November 30, 2003 Report Posted November 30, 2003 Which part is correct? You can use $5 unlimited T-Zones in place of the $20.00 unlimited? Does it work thru GPRS or thru WAP Only?
Guest yoos Posted November 30, 2003 Report Posted November 30, 2003 It's correct that if you have T-Zones then that's all you need to get onto the web through the phone GPRS. You still only have the amount of MB you pay for before you start getting charged outrageous prices though. If you pay for 5MB then you don't get unlimited... The only way you can get unlimited is to pay for unlimited. A cheaper alternative if you don't need unlimited is the T-Zones. I can get to WAP or Internet sites with the use of WebWapSelect....
Guest smeg36 Posted November 30, 2003 Report Posted November 30, 2003 Is the unlimited T-Zones for $5 giving me unlimited browsing, or do I have to get the $20 internet for that? Posted from my SmartPhone!
Guest martin Posted December 1, 2003 Report Posted December 1, 2003 I got curious about this because its soooooo cheap and I wondered what the T-mobile site said about it. T-zones http://www.t-mobile.com/services/tzones/se...iceoverview.asp t-zones gives you unlimited access to the Mobile Web and your e-mail! Get the latest news, sports, and weather from leading providers like CNN and ESPN, and play the latest on-line games. We've got two add-on monthly rate plans. Sign up for t-zones through your T-Mobile handset or My T-Mobile! Unlimited t-zones (includes unlimited Internet e-mail and Mobile Web content) $4.99 Unlimited t-zones pro (includes unlimited access to corporate e-mail, unlimited Internet e-mail, and Mobile Web content) $9.99 T-mobile Internet http://www.t-mobile.com/tmobile_internet/rates.asp The real Internet wherever business takes you. Fast. On the go. Always connected. With a T-Mobile handheld and T-Mobile Internet, you can access the real Internet anytime, in more than 9,000 cities across the country. With a T-Mobile GPRS network card and T-Mobile Internet your laptop becomes more portable than ever. All at speeds up to 56Kbps. Now your office can T-Mobile Internet Unlimited $19.99 Unlimited data transfer Available with your choice of a qualifying voice plan when combining voice and data plans on the same handheld T-Mobile Internet Unlimited $29.99 Unlimited data transfer 20¢ per minute for voice calls—requires voice enabled wireless device 300 text messages included—5¢ per additional text message Requires activation fee The difference is that T-mobile internet states unlimited data transfer whereas the T-zones states unlimited E-mail/Web browsing. It might be that T-zones does not include internet services like file downloads or video streaming or maybe the Quality Of Service (data transfer rate) is reduced. Just a guess really :? $5 for internet seems crazy :shock:
Guest yoos Posted December 1, 2003 Report Posted December 1, 2003 oh, I didn't know there was now an UNLIMITED T-Zones! I have been using the 10MB/$10 a month T-Zones Pro for several months (about 6 months on T-Zones Pro and 1 month on regular T-Zones). I have never been charged for anything extra while I browse the web through my phone. I only came close to 10MB one month where I racked up 9 MB... I think I'm going to change my plan to the unlimited T-Zones Pro. I could get the unlimited T-Zones, but racking up alot of megs on the Pro seems more realistic then the std T-Zones.
Guest martin Posted December 1, 2003 Report Posted December 1, 2003 Just noticed something... Unlimited t-zones (includes unlimited Internet e-mail and Mobile Web content) $4.99This doesn't say unlimited e-mail and unlimited Web content :? Now look at this Unlimited t-zones pro (includes unlimited access to corporate e-mail, unlimited Internet e-mail, and Mobile Web content) $9.99 The words "and Mobile Web content" only tells you that web surfing is available in the T-zones pack and not that it is unlimited or even that there is any inclusive data. [edit] Scrap that.. They said it here :lol: t-zones gives you unlimited access to the Mobile Web and your e-mail! Get the latest news, sports, and weather from leading providers like CNN and ESPN, and play the latest on-line games. We've got two add-on monthly rate plans. Sign up for t-zones through your T-Mobile handset or My T-Mobile!
Guest nytehawk2002 Posted December 1, 2003 Report Posted December 1, 2003 T-Mobile is totally skewed with their pricing here. They've recently revamped this so people who are on advantageous plans don't touch them because they had to grandfather them forward!! Here's how I understood it from the rep I spoke to. Originally there were services you could add to phones: T-Zones: Offered 2 MB limit per month for $2.99 per line T-Zones Pro: Unlimited Internet Per Line Per Month $9.99 Per Line Please note this is different from "T-Mobile Internet" which I believe is a "Data Only" plan with .20$ per min charge for voice. Where as these as services added on to your voice plan. Essentially you would buy this if you just wanted GPRS on your laptop/pda but not neccessarily voice because you already had that on your phone. Your laptop would get a different SIM and number etc. Now it appears they have changed all the services over to unlimited internet. But the difference in the T-Zones and T-Zones pro is the addition of accessing "Corporate Mail". Now how do we define what corporate mail is? :Entering Network Engineer Mode: After logging into the "My T-Zones" Site. It appears that corporate E-mail is accessing a non-SMTP server mail program like Lotus Notes or MS Exchange Which is kinda silly because both mail servers actually use SMTP. So the only real reason I can see getting the current "Pro" option is if you want to somehow access your Calendar and "Non-SMTP" mail servers. Oh yeah and BTW it also offers access to "Unlimited" contacts. Again another strange statement. Almost making it sound like it costs you something to add a contact to your phone. :Exiting Network Engineer Mode: So save yourself some money and get the $4.99 plan and wonder why anyone would pay more for Internet access on their phone for unlimited service. --- Pause ---- Ok after clearing my head for a second I just realized something else that is stupid here. Our phones can directly poll an POP3/SMTP/IMAP4 mail server. This whole e-mail feature is a moot point because we don't use their "Relay" to convert our mail into WAP format. I guess they designed this for people who only have WAP enabled phones not with the capabilites we have. Another good reason to just stick with the cheaper plan. Oh and BTW if I'm rambling.. it might be the NyQuil talking... I need to get to bed. :lol:
Guest yoos Posted December 1, 2003 Report Posted December 1, 2003 A few things... Some plan changes at T-Mobile I just found out about: I just called 611 and was going to change my plan to incorporate unlimited T-Zones until I found out that the T-Zones no longer incorporates text messeges (SMS)! That sucks!! Now they are charging an EXTRA $3 for 300 text messages or $7 for 1000. Also, the unlimited nights for plans that don't have them has jumped from $2.99 to $4.99. In the end I didn't change anything because it would have actually costed me more to have the same anytime minutes, unlimited nights/weekends, 300 text messages (I actually have 350 due to my old plan), and unlimited T-Zones or T-Zones Pro.... and I haven't went over my current 10MB a month yet... About the unlimited email thing, the main difference between T-Zones and T-Zones Pro: My understanding is T-Mobile has a program (which I did download at one time but never tried it out), which runs on your corporate PC that is connected to the net, and you can then access your corporate email somehow through T-Zones. Also, I THOUGHT you could get MULTIPLE pop email accounts this way (and maybe even yahoo and the other big free emails without pop, I can't remember and it's been a while since I looked into this), which would probably be useful for phones that are only WAP as you mentioned. About the difference between T-Zones and data plans: This is all just a GUESS, but I'm guessing that T-Mobiles standard phones are configured someway where you can only get web access with their data plans, which would be used for their pocket pc phone edition, sidekick, etc. (T-Zones probably wouldn't work, or if it did you could only get into the T-Zones specific features and not the net in general, but this is just a guess again). Since we are using a MS smartphone, which isn't configured for T-Mobile, we just need a gateway to the internet and the T-Zones gives us that... I know that's not all technical and stuff, but that's the only thing I can figure...
Guest smeg36 Posted December 1, 2003 Report Posted December 1, 2003 Well, I am a happy man right now! I thought $20/month was a good deal. I also thought T-Mobile was screwing me by not letting me get it. Turns out they are screwing their self! Posted from my SmartPhone!
Guest yoos Posted December 1, 2003 Report Posted December 1, 2003 Another thing I forgot to mention.... I used to be able to get into MSN mobile and read my hotmail, but I can no longer do that as of about 45 or so days ago.... I can get to MSN mobile on my phone, but after I click hotmail, enter my user name and password, it no longer works (it says Finding site..., then says the page you are looking for cannot be found). I'm not sure if MSN changed something on their side which is already locked out through T-Zones or if T-Mobile changed something and locked down something new with T-Zones... They may be catching on and locking down some stuff, I don't know.... or... Maybe there is something weird in my I-Mate ROM I have, which is not allowing it for some reason?screen_2.jpg
Guest MaximilianWeisheit Posted December 4, 2003 Report Posted December 4, 2003 so how do you acces these t-zones web pages????? - because there is not really a wap browser on the SPV. - please let me know, because I heard they have some nice free things there. I set my service up for t-zones. also gprs/wap/mms connection set up. but how do i access the t-zones wap pages
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