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« What self respecting black person.... | Main | I am totally stressed out! » November 07, 2006
Why I am for the TLC!
As one of Costa Rica's Technorati, I was one of the first people to get this service. I have used the GPRS internet connection with various equiptment for the last five years. When I purchased my Treo 650, and Chattermail, I was in connected heaven! I finally had a solution, along with Causerie Internet Messaging, and the built in Blazer Web Browser, that gave me a reasonable facsimile of my office communication tools. I was able to stay in constant communication using a combination of push email. IM and SMS, without ever making a phone call... Best part about it... The Service, still in test, is free! Well I guess ICE did not like the fact that someone was ALWAYS connected to thier GPRS network. About a month ago, the service stopped working. Since I am constantly tweaking my Treo, I assumed it was some software problem. I hard reset my phone, went through the painful process or reinstalling everything and then customizing my settings... Still did not work. I have been a MONTH without mobile Internet, and it HURT. Well, today on a lark, my wife called ICE to ask why the service was not working. Since they announced that they would soon be going out of test mode, and charging for the service, we assumed that they disconnected my GPRS in preparation for charging me for it... NO... They disconnected it because they said, "he is not using it." Har de har, har! They simply disconnected my service, one I have had for five years... without even asking or informing me... I cant wait until these guys have some competition! Crossposted to my Business Blog Trackback Pings
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do you really think this will get better with the cafta? in such a small country there is no chance for real competition, because the market is too small. even here in europe, with the huge market we have, here in europe i am paying 1000% more on calls and 10.000% (!) on sms. let's see what kind of competition will come up Posted by: freezen at November 11, 2006 06:21 AM Could you tell us your settings on your treo to connect to ICE's GPRS service. Thanks Alejandro Posted by: Alejandro at January 11, 2007 04:09 PM Post a comment
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Today I had another one of those experiences that reminds me why I am for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA/TLC). ICE, the Costa Rican Phone Monopoly started a test of GPRS internet five years ago.