Tuesday, July 27, 2004
T-Mobile: No More Free WAP For You!
Posted by Pat Logsdon in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 07:00 PM
"T-Mobile USA has quietly ended an unpublicized program that gave all of its subscribers unlimited WAP access for free. According to the mobile phone discussion site Howard Forums, many T-Mobile subscribers that try and use the service now get a page asking them to sign up for T-Zones, T-Mobile’s data service. Since the service was free, and for the most part unknown, no one believed that it would last forever. However the deal was a cult hit among mobile phone aficionados and will surely be missed for quite some time."
I have to admit that I almost had a heart attack when I read that T-Mobile was dropping their free WAP service, as I use my T-Mobile T610 as a modem with my 4150 on a daily basis. Then I realized that I was hung up on the word "free" instead of "WAP". You see, GPRS is also free, and it appears to be staying that way, as I can still access this InterWeb thing as I always have. Sadly, those of you who like to browse on your phone itself are out of luck - you'll now get a page asking you to sign up for T-Zones if you want the same access. (Sorry, guys - no more horoscopes!) Some are crying foul over this, and I can understand that, but this WAS a free service - now you're just getting what you've been paying for. Thoughts? Dissenting opinions? :mrgreen:
I have to admit that I almost had a heart attack when I read that T-Mobile was dropping their free WAP service, as I use my T-Mobile T610 as a modem with my 4150 on a daily basis. Then I realized that I was hung up on the word "free" instead of "WAP". You see, GPRS is also free, and it appears to be staying that way, as I can still access this InterWeb thing as I always have. Sadly, those of you who like to browse on your phone itself are out of luck - you'll now get a page asking you to sign up for T-Zones if you want the same access. (Sorry, guys - no more horoscopes!) Some are crying foul over this, and I can understand that, but this WAS a free service - now you're just getting what you've been paying for. Thoughts? Dissenting opinions? :mrgreen:
