On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:22 PM, wrote: > Considered Cricket?  They've been aggressively advertising 'now with > smartphones', and obviously it's a no-contract endeavour. No knowledge about > tethering; I'm saddled with AT&T, and didn't much care for the Android phone > I tried, so I am the one person using a Pre. :) Cricket uses CDMA tech same as Verizon or Sprint. Which means (with all three) that if you do get tethering working, you can't do voice at the same time, period, doesn't matter how much tech in the android phone you throw at it. If you're online, you don't have a phone...unless you run two devices which is what all the CDMA carriers want you to do. As it happens, I'm on a long trip in northern AZ right now. I'm in Flagstaff. My TMobile phone has 3G, I'm fully good to go data and voice. My buddy is on cricket, separate phone and data device (USB). His phone works here, the data device is belly-up. When we were in Holbrook, St. John or other such small burgs, my phone still worked but no 3G, while he was completely down hard. When I'm not in a 3G area I still have data, speed sucks but it's workable for basic stuff. Data, when they both work, my phone and his Cricket USB critter are around the same speed. He's paying slightly more a month than I am. I'll take my combo any day of the week. He wants to switch to what I'm doing :). Jim --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss