Registered: Mar 2001
Location: New York City
Posts: 14

Greetings all,

In my ongoing quest to become wireless, I managed to get Bluelight to work as my ISP for my Prism/VisorPhone combo. Now the issue is what to use as my plan for data minutes.

I currently have the VoiceStream Basic Plan for the NYC area for my VisorPhone. I am wondering which option for me is more economical: do I upgrade my plan to the Get More (where I receive 600 minutes a month, plus 2000 weekend minutes) or do I purchase the DataStream 1500 data minutes instead? With the Get More option, I can at least use my leftover minutes for phone time, and only for an additional $20, whereas the DataStream plan leaves me only with data minutes, and with more than I could possibly use for $30 a month.

According to some of the posts I've seen, VoiceStream doesn't bill any differently between voice and data. So maybe its better to buy more voice time and web surf with that?

Any VoiceStream users out there with any suggestions? Are there any significant differences between voice and data minutes? What options do you all use?

Thanks,

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-- Mike

Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Oklahoma City Ok.
Posts: 42

I looked into this myself about 2 weeks ago and was told that here in oklahoma the data plan was being droped and they did not at that time have any new plan in place to take over for it but should have something in a few weeks so i am looking forward to finding out what the next plan will be or like you just upgrading to the next min. plan so keep me upto date on what you find and i will post what i find. I like voicestream as far as the service goes but i don't like the way they keep changing there rate plans around without telling people and forceing you to take on another year of service to get the new plans. I think we as old users of there service (about 6 years with 8 phones) should get some kind of break.

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Here
Posts: 213

I am changing from voicestream basic plan I got with the purchase of the phone to VoiceStreams "Talk and Text" plan. It bumps up the number of SMS messages which I am mostly interested to get short e-mails and alerts pushed to the visorphone. To me, "on-line" is still not very affordable, so I like the SMS approach, then use voice minutes for mostly voice, or occasional "caching" of avantgo etc.