Comments on: Earthlink Ending Wireless CDPD Service
Earthlink has informed it wireless CDPD customers that is will soon stop offering the service. The company is moving it's customers to a faster network, but is not offering an option to upgrade for Palm handheld users.
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RE: ?
Ahh, just another show of customer loyalty and service. Earthlink keeps buying up so many small ISP's they don't think they really need customers anymore.
Goodbye to an old friend
I was one of the beta users for Omnisky, getting on the wireless Palm world very early on - late 99. I loved it when it came out, but later technology quickly rendered CDPD non-relevant.
I still have my Omnisky modem, and I look at it in my desk drawer for a good laugh every now and then.
I still have my Omnisky modem, and I look at it in my desk drawer for a good laugh every now and then.
RE: Goodbye to an old friend
I was also an Omnisky beta tester, and I remember waiting on the porch for the UPS guy with joy in my heart. I pulled an awful lot of bits through that little gizmo, more than I can imagine, and even signed up as a Palm hardware developer to get the Palm V connector so I could make a cable to hook up the sled modem to my VAIO 505. I used PalmVNC to remotely control Windows 2000 servers, TGssh to talk to Linux boxes, EudoraWeb and PQAs galore to talk to web servers, and MultiMail for IMAP. It really worked, and despite a few hiccups here and there was quite reliable. One thing I will miss a lot is the all-you-can-eat pricing plan - it was nice to not have to worry about using up minutes or KB everytime I checked my mail - which I did frequently. I cancelled the service after nearly four years on Aug. 8 - I was given a Tungsten C, and the OS modem wouldn't work with that unit, unfortunately. Time marches on, I guess, but that little deal was all that kept me online a lot of the time and I miss it.
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Even if they are updgading, why are they ending teh service?
One palm to rule them all!
-Sniffer