Aircard, VoIP, Per Minute Charges

I have not heard about a way to get around it.

 

So Sprint charges 20 cents per minute if you use VOIP over their aircards??? I'm not sure I understand the question.

 

I know they charge 20 cents a minute for a regular call on a voice card plan, but I've never heard of them charging for VOIP. The cards currently don't always work well for VOIP because of latency (even with RevA) and signal strength but there are no additional charges for using it. If you take a look at evdoforums.com you'll see that lots of people are using their cards with VOIP, although not always successfully.

Sprint's customer service is really, really terrible - mostly because of complete lack of training. You could probably call and ask this question of 5 different representatives - and get 5 different answers. Hope this helps - sheureka

 

Ah, you know what I bet the CS rep got confused and just told HockeyForHim what the charges are for a voice call made from a data only plan/device. VOIP has nothing to do with this though because I don't see how Sprint could know that you are using VOIP.

 

They could tell through packet analysis what you are doing, but I have used Skype on my Sprint laptop card and never been charged for it.

 

True, but I doubt they would go through this kind of trouble...or shall I say I hope they wouldn't.

 

You would be surprised. From what I understand, packet analysis (packet shaping) is a necessary thing at the ISP level to make the internet work properly. After that it is just a question of what an ISP does with it. There is a lot of talk going around about Comcast filtering out Bit Torrent traffic right now.

 

Hmm...I don't know too much about the IP Industry but lets just say that I would leave Comcast if they filtered out Bit Torrent traffic. Are they concerned people bit torrenting are taking up too much bandwidth on comcast's network?

 

This is why we need a legislation to ensure net neutrality stays. If Cablevision started filtering out bittorrent I would switch to Verizon in a heartbeat. But then again, that's about the only thing we can do as customers. We only have two choices for broadband: phone company and cable company. More competition is needed.

Comcast is not going to solve whatever problems they have by filtering out Bittorrent. What they need to do is expand their anemic network to handle more bandwitdth like Cablevision did years ago.