This past week, I've made some big changes in my digital life. This post can serve as an addendum to my previous survey of Free and cheap small business telecommunications.
I finally got the Treo 650 that I've coveted for over a year. I'm using Sprint because I live in a gully that verizon/cingular signals can't seem to reach. I got a used Treo on ebay that came with Kinoma producer/reader for putting movies onto this thing. Rather psyched to have this, but my kids might use it more than I for long car trips. As for the service, it turns out that if go for the 2000 minute plan, you get lots of stuff free...add a phone, unlimited internet. It was a small victory for me to walk out of the Sprint PCS store with tons more features and minutes and not have to pay any more per month.
The other big event was finding out that those Verizon trucks in my neighborhood over the past month have been laying fiber optic cable for a consumer internet service named Verizon FIOS. $39 for 5MB down, 2MB up and $49 for 15MB down and $15MB down. Compare this with (my current service) Comcast at $45 for 3mb/300K or $55 for 4mb/600k (or something close to that). Yeah, you bet I signed up! Now all I need is for Apple to come out with their movie download service.
