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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">FreedomPop looks too good to be true. I'd want to set it up with a prepaid credit card. Has anyone direct experience with them?<br></div>
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<div>On Mon, May 30, 2016, at 06:26 PM, Charles West wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div style="font-family:Arial;">You might want to look at FreedomPop. One of their modems gives you 500 Mb per month for free. The only catch is that you need to manually turn off their non-free "features" and they charge if you go over.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Thanks,<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Charlie<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Alex Davis via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">> I'm setting up node-red (<a href="http://nodered.org/">http://nodered.org/</a> ) on a Raspberry Pi, to<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> > handle home automation/IoT stuff. Since I want it to ping me if my house<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> > is on fire, I'm looking around for device-oriented data plans, in case<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> > home<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> I used to use PTEL. They are no longer in service. I liked them as you<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> paid on a combo of minutes and service length. I think every 3 months<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> was $30, and it came with some amount of minutes I'd never use up. The<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> problem was that my home is in a t-mobile null, so it was useless for<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> home automation. We ended up putting the SIM in an unlocked feature<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> phone for one of my kids. T-mobile is fine in the City of Raleigh.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <a href="http://ptel.com">ptel.com</a> is now a landing page for prior customers, and has links to<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> similar low-cost service providers. Maybe one of those is good?<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> There's also <a href="http://alarmsim.com">alarmsim.com</a>. Their deal is your minutes never expire, but<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> the SIM cost upfront is expensive, and they only support SMS, no text or<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> MMS.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> Ever consider working out a deal to use a neighbor's wireless as a<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> fallback, in case your own service goes out? Then you don't need the GSM<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> modem.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> Finally, would anyone like to trade for a Seeed Studio Arduino GSM<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> shield? I have one, but have no use for it (because no service where I<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> live). I have updated the firmware on mine so it works with the nice<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> Adafruit GSM library and supports MMS. Let me know what you have to<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> trade.<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <span><span style="color:rgb(136, 136, 136)" class="colour"><br> Alex<br> <br> --<br> "The theater of noise is proof of our potential."<br> |\ | (¯ \/ |¯\ |V| |\ ¯|¯ |¯) | \/ | | | |¯\ (¯ /¯ /\ |V|<br> |-||_ (_ /\ |_/ @| | |-| | | \ | /\ |^| | |_/ (_ . \_ \/ | |<br> <br> You won't find me on Facebook.<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org">TriEmbed@triembed.org</a><br> <a href="http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org">http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org</a><br> TriEmbed web site: <a href="http://TriEmbed.org">http://TriEmbed.org</a></span></span></div>
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