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T-Mobile & Blackberry
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Posted by: ewalker3

Now that "free" WAP has been discountinued, if I sign up for T-zones (allowing me to get to internet email etc), and put my sim in a blackberry, will I bet able to browse the web, send emails, etc?

then if i sign up for a hosted blackberry gateway service i will get the full features of a bes connected blackberry?

or do i need to still use the tmobile blackberry add on plan?

I already am a t-mobile customer.

Ed

Posted by: WolfKeeper

T-Mobile's Blackberry plan will give you t-zone/wap access in addition to e-mail.

I have not tried just putting a T-Mobile sim into a Blackberry that doesn't have Blackberry service provisioned on the account to see if t-zones/wap would work.

Posted by: jwineburgh

From the pm's I've gotten responses on so far, it doesn't seem like it will work. What I'm being told is that any internet access must go through the service provider's gateway or a corporate bes, but I'm not convinced that's 100% true.

If you have the opportunity, try it and let us know.

This is something I need to determine as well before I spend the $ on a blackberry.

Does the blackberry you have come with some type of web browser and email client that don't try to connect back to the sp's gateway?

Thanks.

#JOE

Posted by: NJBlackBerry

Quote:

Originally posted by jwineburgh
From the pm's I've gotten responses on so far, it doesn't seem like it will work. What I'm being told is that any internet access must go through the service provider's gateway or a corporate bes, but I'm not convinced that's 100% true.
#JOE

Joe - it's true. 100% true. I have lots of SIM cards, from lots of carriers. If I put in a T-Mobile card, with GPRS (but not BlackBerry Data service), it will bring up GSM, and go to gprs (data connection refused). Same thing happens if I put in a "foreign" - non T-Mobile SIM - that doesn't have BB support on the account. I have an unlocked BB, so that's not the issue.

And even with a corporate BES, you MUST have the BlackBerry data service on the SIM card account.

Bottom line is I am unaware of any way to get around paying the monthly fee for BlackBerry Data service.

Posted by: ewalker3

is that the case even if you have tzones on your account?
i thought the blackberry web browser was wap based?

ed

Posted by: jwineburgh

There was at least one third party software site I found the other day that talked about changing the settings on the BB to use the service provider's wap gateway, which sounded curiously similar to what I do now on my nokia 3650 to get email & wap with the $5/mo t-zones data option.

Might have been an older model they were talking about, but in any case, I'll be sure and post what I end up doing (which will not include the 20+/mo bb data option).

#JOE