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March 10th, 2010 | 
Author: i’m thinking about getting a prepaid phone and i was just wondering how internet access works with that. is it just the same as regular minutes or what? i’m thinking about going with a major company. i was hoping to find something with unlimited texts and internet, or something relativily close.
If you go through AT&T, you can add a text and internet plan onto your pay as you go account. You you don’t add this on, using your Internet will drain your account in no time. I don’t believe other service providers allow you to add service bundles onto their pre paid plans.
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I would like to have Internet that I can use when I travel. What does verizon charge? And how does this work? Is it unlimited use for internet? How fast is the internet connection?
What kind of phone do you have? Or are you talking about the broadband wireless access card?
I have an EnV, and I subscribe to Vcast to get unlimited internet, Vcast access, and Get it Now! for $15/month.
If you don’t mind using your minutes while you’re online, there is a $5/month plan for that too.
On my phone the connection is really pretty fast, as long as the webpage doesn’t have too many graphics. A lot of services have special pages made specifically for mobile access- like Gmail and facebook load very quickly are are very easy to navigate.
If you are looking for the broadband card, I don’t personally use it, but I attached some links from Verizon’s website as well as another Y!A question on this topic with a good answer below. There’s even a place where you can "test drive" it, so maybe it will give you a feel of how fast it is? Not sure how that works. But it looks like they are charging $79/month for the unlimited access plan, which is the only one I see available.
Good luck!
Internet has progressed by leaps and bounds.
How do you explain today’s Internet to a layman, who know nothing about Internet?
It would depend on the level of detail needed. I would start with datagrams and routing methodologies since those are pretty fundamental, then up to at least the transport layer. Most of the time I’d probably extend that showing how it relates to the different application layer services but equally I can envisage people being more interested in the physical and data link side of things.
Astronomy and space?