What I wonder is how fast is it? I currently use the $20/month unlimited option from Cingular, and I am being ripped off. I don't recommend that anyone get it. Why? The speed is supposed to be 144K, and instead, it is governed by Cingular, to only 40K-48K. If you call and ask Cingular about it, (I am told), they will ask how you know your speed, and then they will realize that you are tethering, and they will cut you off. It's like the mafia. I think that sometime, someone will bring a class-action lawsuit against Cingular for selling something they are not providing. I will join that suit.

That's why I wonder about the speed. If it is 56K, then I would use it. If it is 19.2K or 14.4K, which is that I think it will be, then I dunno. I can (barely) surf the web at 45K, only if I set Opera to "View->Images->Never". I can easily refresh RSS news feeds and do email, and use web forums fine, (text things) with Images turned off. But I would not want to do it at 19.2K.

And I will never pay $40/month for "high-speed" cell access. They can bite me. I already pay a little more than that for FastAccess DSL, and I am not paying another $40/month to them. No way.

I think there is something else to this - when the politicians stop accepting "donations" from the telecommunications industry, and they legalize nation-wide, or even city-wide WiFi, Cingular/Spring/Verizon will no longer be able to make this kind of money, so they are grabbing all the money they can get now. They know it is only a matter of time.