David Pogue reviews EV-DO in New York Times

Michael

David Pogue's weekly article educated his readers on EVDO. It is a great article - read it and you will see why Smile

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/technology/circuits/23pogue.html

Feel free to comment about the article. For you Novatel V620 people out there who have been feeling left out, because the Kyocera KPC650 was the new king, you will be happy to read David's testing outcome.
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Michael · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject:

BTW, in the David Pogue article on the left side, there is a very funny (and very funny) video that shows how EVDO works, check it out at:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/html/2005/06/22/technology/20050623_POGUE_VIDEO.html
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frissell · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 22

Great article on the EVDO. He noticed the lack of taxes and VOIP possibilities. I talked about that in my blog a while ago. I don't know if anyone here was in NY in the '80s but I clearly remember sales taxes going on and then coming off my ISP bills.

http://technoptimist.blogspot.com/2005_04_10_technoptimist_archive.html#110666949923176714

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Tax Free Telecoms

So I got my first regular bill for my Verizon EVDO high speed wireless broadband service and I noticed something missing - taxes. Verizon charges $79.99 a month for their high speed data service and I just got a PC card with no voice plan.

So no voice plan meant no telephone taxes and New York had removed sales taxes from monthly ISP service fees way back in the CompuServe era. (That was a funny experience. In the '80s ISP connections were tax free in New York, then they started charging sales taxes as soon as the state noticed ISPs existed, then they decided to remove the taxes because the ISPs pointed out that customers could just sign up out of state.)

Anyway, my bill was $79.99 + a 5 cent fee from Verizon for a total of $80.04. (I have to ask Verizon what the nickel is for.)

I hope it's a while before NYS finds out I'm making VOIP phone calls with my service.

Does anyone here know what the nickel is for?