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Re: Are geeks becoming more respected?

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Mike Spencer wrote:

>
> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
>
>> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>:
>>
>>> Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Basically, I want a cell phone for:
>>>>   + A wifi access point
>>>
>>> Going to have to be a smartphone then (or not a phone at all, but a
>>> MiFi).
>
> Okaay, have to look that up.
>
>> Let me mention a practical use case for a smartphone.
>>
>> Yesterday I needed to go to a meeting in Vantaa, Finland (within the
>> Helsinki metropolitan area). I don't know Vantaa very well...
>>
>> [ snip account of getting un-lost, finding right train etc.]
>>
>> ...I wasn't even late to the meeting.
>
> The chances of me being in that situation are non-zero but very small.
> Vaguely similar but less pressing situations slightly more probable.
>
> Wifi (or mifi? -- faster net access) is the motivating element here.
>
> Others' comments saved for reference, TYVM.
>
My sister had internet access that way for a while.  It had to use the 
cellphone network, I don't think Bell was stringing up wifi nodes 
everywhere.  She got a little usb thing that provided the interface.  I 
don't know what she paid, but she said it was "expensive", the monthly 
rate that is.  SOmewhere I got the impression it wasn't all that fast, but 
i'm not sure whether she said something or I got it from somewhere else. 
I tried it once, when I got my Blackberry Playbook I had to register at 
Blackberry, but on dialup I couldn't get to their website.  So her 
internet access was faster, but I never used it enough to know whether it 
wsa fast or not.

Is it still being offered?  I don't know, I haven't seen it advertised in 
a while, but I did back when she had it (which was up to October of 2012).

   Michael

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  Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-03-22 08:25 +0200
  Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2017-03-22 10:40 +0000
  Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2017-03-22 13:01 -0400
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          Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-03-23 10:23 +0000
            Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-03-23 14:49 +0200
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