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do not call list for cell phones
Reminder, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies this month and you and will start to receive these sales calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS to prevent these calls, call the following number:
THE DO NOT CALL LIST: 1-888-382-1222
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no contract unlimited data plan on Blackberry with tmobile
I can not stand being without my Blackberry so I unlocked my Blackberry from at&t and activated the device on T-Mobile with a data only plan. What is a data only plan you may ask.
Well I was told by the T-Mobile rep that I could only use the internet but I found that not to be completely correct. I did send text from the device and using Google voice but when I try to make a call I was sent to a recording saying that this is not allowed and to call customer service.
I went to Myt-mobile.com to checkout my services and confirm if any additional charges.
The first thing I notice after registering and logging in was my data usage that shown for the day but I did see text that I sent. The text was not shown but I saw unlimited picture messaging so I clicked the chat button on T-Mobile’s site to get a better explanation of the plan.
After the conversation I emailed the whole transcript to myself and it is copied below.
You have been connected to _Cavin H._Cavin H:
Hi Curtis , welcome to T-Mobile live Chat. I’m
Cavin and I will be happy to assist you. Please give me a moment to review your question._
Cavin H: I can see where this can be a concern for you, I know you want to make sure that you are not charged for anything extra._
Cavin H: I will be more than happy to look into this for you.
Curtis Matthews: ok_
Cavin H: One moment please._Cavin H: I am still researching this, please allow me 2-3 more minutes.
Curtis Matthews: ok_
Cavin H: Thank you._
Cavin H: It is unlimited text messaging.
Curtis Matthews: Are you sure_
Cavin H: Let me double check.
Curtis Matthews: Online under my account it says unlimited picture messages_
Cavin H: I do see that._
Cavin H: It does not include text, sorry about that.Curtis Matthews: So I do not have text but I have unlimited picture messages?_
Cavin H: Correct.
Curtis Matthews: So I can not text or do I get charged?_
Cavin H: You will get charged.
Curtis Matthews: What will I be charged?_
Cavin H: $0.20 per message.
Curtis Matthews: Why then can I not see the usage online if I sent text_
Cavin H: Because it hasn’t shown that there have been any sent to this point.
Curtis Matthews: I did send a couple about 5 hours ago._
Cavin H: It hasn’t shown up on the system, yet.
Curtis Matthews: But all the data usage shows now. So what you are telling me is that I will see the text usage tomorrow for text?_
Cavin H: More than likely.
Curtis Matthews: Can you check to see for sure._
Cavin H: Unfortuantely, we can only check, when it shows up on our end.Curtis Matthews: So instead of sending a text if I send the message as a MMS I will not get billed?_
Cavin H: Correct.
Curtis Matthews: That does not make sense but ok._
Cavin H: It is an odd little plan.Curtis Matthews: Very odd
Curtis Matthews: So I can block text and only use MMS?_
Cavin H: No, we can only block text and mms.
Curtis Matthews: So if I send someone a MMS and they reply y text I get charged unless they reply as a MMS. But you can send a MMS without a picture or any attachment._
Cavin H: You would have to send a mms from a picture on the phone.
Curtis Matthews: No I can just select MMS from my Blackberry and it gives me the option of attaching pictures, music or a voice note._
Cavin H: Then you can.
Curtis Matthews: ok thanks_
Cavin H: Not a problem._
Cavin H: Is there anything else we can assist you with today?
Curtis Matthews: no thanks_
Cavin H: Thank you for contacting T-Mobile Chat, have a great evening!
traveling overseas and want to use a sim card from that country
When traveling overseas one of the best ways to save money on roaming fees is to buy an unlocked GSM cell phone and use a prepaid sim card from that country that you are visiting. Prepaid cell phone service is sold everywhere overseas in the airport and almost every corner block. The calls are much less expensive and most of the time you have unlimited incoming calls. The last time I went to Trinidad I spent $30 for the sim card and my minutes for the two weeks I was over there. If I had used my regular phone roaming it would of cost me $2 a minute and with all the calls I made my bill would have been in the hundreds for the roaming cost. I unlocked my Blackberry Bold 9000 before I went and used a sim card from Bmobile a local wireless carrier.
An unlocked cell phone can use any sim card from any GSM wireless provider. One of the important things to look for in an unlocked cell phone is the GSM frequency. Some GSM cell phone have one or two frequencies like the Motorola F3. The Motorola F3 is 850/1900 a 2 band phone that would work on any GSM provider in the United States since the U.S. only use two GSM bands 850/1900 it would not be a problem. AT&T uses 850/1900 and T-Mobile uses 1900 GSM networks but countries like Europe and the rest of the world use sometimes the 900 or the 1800 GSM networks.
Now the best phone to have for roaming is the quad band GSM, which is used for global calls where GSM network coverage is present. The Motorola V3 Razr works on these GSM Networks: GSM 850, 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900. The Quad band GSM phone is always the best type of unlocked cell phone for traveling.
Wordpress on Android


This is a post using the word press application downloaded from the Android market place. The mobile device I am using to write this post is the Motorola Backflip.
The Wordpress application has a few less features on it than the Blackberry version but it also has some different features like this linking ability [Free Motorola Backflip]
I can bold text italicized and
b quote (put things here)
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Pictures can be added to the post as you can see with my self portrait. It does not have video uploading capabilities but the Wordpress application on my Blackberry say it has video uploading feature that I have not gotten it to work yet.
texting when you are overseas
AT&T has a new package for texting when roaming overseas. The package cost $10 and gives you 50 free out going messages. That breaks it down to $.20 a message and anything over the 50 included in that package is $.40.
The incoming text that you receive when roaming internationally is bill at your current home package. That means if you have unlimited text you can receive unlimited text when roaming internationally. If you have the $5 200 message package at home then that 200 would apply for your incoming texts when roaming internationally.
This was great news for international travelers because without the $10 roaming text package you will be billed $.50 for each outgoing text and $1.30 for each MMS (pictures, video) messages.
For more information on this and any other of the roaming packages call AT&T international department @ 877-707-9208
Interlecta translator application
This Blog was translated using a free application from Blackberry app world, Interlecta translator. I do not know Spanish, so this is a great application. There were many other languages that I could of use in the translator but I live in South Florida which is 80% hispanic. This works for texts, emails and does a reverse translation. —-translated-en-es-20091013074935—-Subject: U-verso de servicio al cliente Mi U-verse tiene un soporte técnico que es un soporte 24 / 7 de teléfono gratuito. Si un técnico tiene que salir a la casa de su un cargo de $ 55 que me enteré de la manera difÃcil. Cuando conectado mi Uverse televisión e Internet han cambiado mi red inalámbrica y no pude usarla. Llamé a la asistencia técnica por teléfono para ver qué podÃamos hacer para hacerlo funcionar, después de 30 minutos en el teléfono me dijeron que tenÃa que enviar un técnico a repararlo. El técnico salió y me cambió la configuración de red de vuelta a lo que habÃa antes y todo funcionaba de nuevo. No fue hasta mi próxima factura que vi el cargo de $ 55. Me llamó y dijo que nadie me dijo que serÃa acusado y fue allà donde la culpa de que la red no estaba bien configurado antes, finalmente mi cuenta de crédito por los $ 55. Ese fue el primer tema con U-verse de apoyo técnico un par de noches atrás mi internet funcionaba lento. Me estaba entre 3,0 y 12,3 megas. He televisión U300 y U-verso 18 megas de Internet, asà que llamé a soporte técnico por la noche alrededor de las 3am. El representante era de un centro de llamadas más probable es que en la India de su acento. Quitamos una gran cantidad de archivos en mi ordenador y en el sistema U-verse, todo el proceso tomó aproximadamente una hora. Ella dijo entonces por mi trabajo me daba gratis durante un mes, U-verse 300 de televisión, le dije que es lo que tengo ahora, me dijo que no tengo U200. Le dije que me han Showtime, asà que definitivamente han U300 porque no tendrÃa los canales premium, entonces ella omite hablar de ello de nuevo. Ella me dijo entonces a prueba mi velocidad de Internet. Ahora era conseguir un consistente 12 a 12,5 megas de velocidad, le di las gracias y luego le preguntó por qué no puedo superar los 12, cuando yo pago por 18 megas, me dijeron que no tengo 18 tengo 12 y para llamar a servicio al cliente en la mañana para ir por encima de mi plan. Le pedà que por favor tomar nota de la cuenta con todas las cosas que hemos hablado. Sé personalmente de lo importante que es tener las notas sobre la cuenta para el próximo representante sabrÃa lo que está pasando. Dijo que añadÃa las notas, yo le pregunté entonces por favor asegúrese de que las notas son buenas debido a que es muy importante, yo no querÃa pasar todo ese tiempo en el teléfono nuevo, se me aseguró que se hizo. Hice el servicio al cliente llame al dÃa siguiente y el representante de servicio al cliente era grosero y me dijo que tenÃa U300 y 18 megas y esta es una cuestión de apoyo técnico. Luego me trasladaron a la asistencia técnica que era una voz de Estados Unidos, supongo que por la noche las llamadas son transferidos a la India. Él me dijo que tengo U200 y 12 megas de Internet. Le dije que leer las notas y él dijo que no habÃa notas y la tecnologÃa en la noche mintió porque las notas que han estado en mi cuenta si se habÃa puesto ninguna. Luego me dijo que tendrÃa que transferir de vuelta a servicio al cliente y les dirÃa lo que está ocurriendo. Un representante de los clientes tiene en la lÃnea, en ese momento yo estaba en el teléfono durante 30 minutos. El representante de servicio al cliente me dijo que tenÃa que llamar de nuevo a confirmar el apoyo técnico y la velocidad, pero le dije que no podÃa mantener por más tiempo porque estaba en el trabajo y mi descanso habÃa terminado. Ella me dijo que me llamarÃa de vuelta después de hablar con apoyo técnico para la U-verse. Nunca me llamó de vuelta de U-verso de apoyo técnico o de servicio al cliente, tuve que llamar al dÃa siguiente. El representante de servicio al cliente ya habÃa visto en las notas que un supervisor fue a llamarme pero no lo hicieron. Este representante de servicio al cliente me dio una tarjeta de crédito durante los 3 meses de no disponer de U-verse velocidad de 18 megas de Internet y le dije que ni siquiera se molestan en arreglarlo me dejan a los 12 megas ahora. Esta fue una gran misión y un cliente normal no deberÃa tener que pasar por esta molestia. Yo no soy un cliente normal que venden servicios de AT & T U-verse incluido y sé lo que estoy haciendo, pero todavÃa me pasaba horas en el teléfono y le tomó un par de dÃas. —-original-en-es-20091013074935—-Subject: U-verse customer serviceMy U-verse has a technical support which is a 24/7 free phone support. If a tech has to come out to the house its a $55 charge that I learned the hard way. When they hooked up my Uverse television and internet they changed my wireless network and I could not use it. I did call the technical support on the phone to see what we could do to get it running, after 30 minutes on the phone they said they had to send a tech out to repair it. The tech came out and changed my network settings back to what I had before and everything worked again. It was not until my next bill that I saw the $55 charge. I called and said that no one told me I would be charged and it was there fault that the network was not properly set up before, they eventually credited my account for the $55. That was the first issue with U-verse technical support a few nights back my internet was running slow. I was getting between 3.0 and 12.3 Megs. I have U300 television and U-verse 18 Megs internet, so I called technical support late at night around 3am. The representative was from a call center most likely in India from her accent. We cleared a lot of files on my computer and on the U-verse system, the whole process took about an hour. She then said for my trouble she would give me free for one month U-verse 300 television, I told her that’s what I have now, she said no I have U200. I told her I have Showtime so I definitely have U300 because I would not have the premium channels, she then skipped talking about it again. She then told me to test my internet speeds. I was now getting a consistent 12 to 12.5 megs speed, I thanked her and then asked why I never get over the 12 when I pay for 18 megs, I was told I do not have 18 I have 12 and to call customer service in the morning to go over my plan. I asked her to please note the account with all the things we spoke about. I know personally how important it is to have the notes on the account so the next representative would know what’s going on. She said she did add the notes, I then asked her please make sure the notes are good because that is very important, I did not want to spend all that time on the phone again, I was assured it was done. I did call customer service the next day and the customer service representative was rude and told me I had U300 and 18 megs and this is a technical support issue. He then transferred me to technical support which was an American voice, I guess at night the calls get transferred to India. He told me I have U200 and 12 megs internet. I told him read the notes and he said there were no notes and the tech at night lied because the notes would have been on my account if she had put any. He then told me he would have to transfer me back to customer service and he would tell them what is occurring. A customer rep got on the line, by this time I was on the phone for 30 minutes. The customer service representative told me she had to call back to technical support and confirm the speed but I told her I could not hold any longer because I was at work and my break was over. She told me that they would call me back after talking to technical support for U-verse. They never called me back from U-verse technical support or customer serv
ice, I had to call the next day. The customer service representative now had seen in the notes that a supervisor was to call me but didn’t. This customer service representative gave me a credit for the 3 months of not having U-verse 18 megs internet speed and I told her don’t even bother to fix it leave me at the 12 megs now. This was a big mission and a normal customer should not have to go through this hassle. I am not a normal customer I sell at&t services including U-verse and I know what I am doing but I still spent hours on the phone and it took a couple of days.
Bolt Browser upgrade
I got an email this morning from Bolt, it said. “Thanks to the contributions of over two million beta testers like you, we are proud to announce that we’re officially dropping the beta tag with today’s release of BOLT 1.5.You will be automatically prompted to upgrade the next time you launch BOLT.Many of the most significant upgrades occur “under the hood,” but you are sure to notice the results – v1.5 is the most reliable, fastest browser we have ever released – more than 15% faster than Beta3.Other new features include the ability to stream videos of any length, a dedicated search bar, a download manager that downloads files directly from BOLT, improved navigation and text rendering, and a caching feature that enables browsing back to a previously visited page without waiting to reload.”
I downloaded the new version and it is faster, then I went YouTube, I was promted to run a wizard for Bolt to test my Video settings. Then the YouTube video played in the Bolt browser, it used to save the video before playing it. It still has issues a four minute video froze a lot, I then switched to WiFi and it was not much better playing the videos on YouTube.
I do like this browser a lot for normal web browsing but it still needs to work on video playback. The best so far is the Skyfire browser that works on my Blackjack 2 but still is not ready for Blackberry. Bolt Browser first trial
Editing my website from my Blackberry Bold
Learning how to edit my website and my blog from my Blackberry Bold is getting better. I am always with my Blackberry and I want to use the Blackberry Bold to do more like edit and update my website and blog. I did a successful change to my index page on www.wirelessconsultant.net site today. So this is what I did so far by using two browsers and my tasks. I added links, pictures and text to my website quickly and easily. I used my tasks in my Blackberry. First I named a task “index page update iPhone promo”, then I used the notes section as my blank template that I could save and finish editing latter and the tasks’ lets me set reminders and other fields. I did because we all know that the Apple iPhone is an hot item and on September 25th all the 3G and 3Gs model iPhones would get a software update that allows MMS messaging with pictures and other types of media.
AT&T Apple iPhone Sale! Prices Starting at $49 for a refurbished 8GB 3G to $299 for New 32GB 3Gs Apple iPhone
Apple iPhone 3G – 8 GB – Black (Refurb)$49 while supplies last!
So this blog should have an iPhone link and I already put a image link on the index page of wirelessconsultant.net. Now if I had a some HTML training this would make this a lot easier.
Bolt new web browser for Blackberry
I downloaded Bolt a web browser for my Blackberry Bold. What I can say so far is great. This is exactly the way you see the web pages on a computer or the iPhone but on a Blackberry. I am able to go to pages that I could not properly see before and the pages download fast. I can also copy and paste into the url something I could not do with Opera Mini. This new browser allows me to do updates with my Blackberry to Facebook ads, Mobilewiseguy Blog and pull up sites in seconds that took me minutes before in the Blackberry or Media Net browser.
I got the Bolt browser for Crackberry.com I know you will thank me just put this URL www.boltbrowser.com/ in you Blackberry or Media Net browser and download the Bolt browser for Blackberry.
I have been waiting for the new Skyfire browser for Blackberry because it let you see video from Hulu, Youtube, CNN news video and a lot more sites. I downloaded Skyfire to my Samsung Blackjack 2 and my LG Incite but after stumbling on Bolt I am happy to say I will be busy doing a lot more with my Blackberry in the next few days especially with my new Blog
The Blackberry 8900 Curve Free from Wireless Consultant on at&t with new 2 year service



