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- dvinnen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Seriously, Alltel gets all the cool cell phones a year late and has no cool toys. But they do have the best coverage (at least were I live).
A cell phone company that specializes in phone calls? Strange concept. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8No, actually a podcast is some form of audio (mp3, m4a, etc...) tied to an RSS feed.
- rumor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5you'd be wrong about that seeing as its #5 in the nation.
I just enjoy having signal pretty much everywhere i go while my friends using other providers lose signal all the time. - bloodguard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have a Treo 700p and Quicknews downloads all my subscribed podcasts to my SD card nightly. AudibleAir can do this too. I have it download my Wall Street Journal audio summary every morning. I'm pretty sure they allow you to do regular podcasts as well.
- apocalizer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Uh, $0.05 per kb? That makes what, $300 for an hour-long podcast (Correct me if I'm wrong, and I probably am)? Even in American that still adds up to $270... I guess that either Canadians are richer than I was led to believe, there was a typo in jbravo29's comment or Rogers is really desparate for money after that comma incident that made Digg yesterday.
Hope the data plan is cheaper... - mileswilliams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just when I thought Alltel wouldn't do anything cool they do this.
Go team ;) - VMark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Alltel sucks in Northern Michigan? It's the only thing that DOES work.
- apocalizer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Uh-huh. Too bad they charge for the service.
$3.99 a month for freely availiable podcasts? - nstern2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why doesn't alltell just have a two or three second add before and after every podcast and release this service for free? I'm guessing this is like Verizon and you have to use airtime to surf the web, download stuff, ETC.
- fr34k5h0w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heh, where I live, you have a choice between Alltel (better phones, better plans) or Cell1 (crappy crappy crappy). Needless to say, alltel is common around here.
some of alltel's service plans are nice though, especially the my circle if you have friends under sprint or t-mobile. also, getting a minute for every dropped call is nice out here in the boonies. unfortunately, axcess SUCKS because your minutes get sucked away if you go in to the shop, you lose any and all apps if you switch to a different phone, etc because at least here they don't allow you to back them up even at the alltel store to transfer to a new phone. ah well
/rant - Bitz69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've never had a spot in Michigan where I couldn't use my Alltel phone, not even in the middle of Pigeon Creek National forest, which is in the middle of nowhere. There Customer Service for me has been the best I've seen out of any company I've dealt with, I've never had a problem they didn't resolve to my satisfaction. Granted there Axxess apps usually suck...
- jbravo29, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Rogers in Canada has been offering this service for a while now. They charge an introductory rate of $5 per month which includes the ability to listen and download Podcasts. This monthly fee is a data transport fee for the data usage incurred while listening to and downloading Podcast episodes. There is no charge for the content of the Podcasts. Once the Podcast application is downloaded to your wireless phone, they give you an opportunity to update the podcasts. If you choose to do so you they charge 5ยข per Kb or based on your data plan.
I decided to continue downloading to my PC and PSP and listen for free thanks. - gage006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can already listen to them for free with Orb on my Sprint phone. Just pay the monthly internet access fee.
- aahpandasrun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3but good luck getting service
- Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah, $4 a month is too rich for my blood. I would love to sign up for Axess Web, but I would never pay more than $50 a month for cellphone service again!
- Vouksh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yup. My SimpleFreedom phone (Kyocera KX1) uses alltel for everything. There's a shop called the AxessShop where you download programs, games, & ringtones for your phone, which just takes off whatever credit you have on your account when you buy it. $4.00 a month for the program + the airtime to download the program + the use of the program. Why does that make so little sense to me?
Thank god their IM program (AIM and Yahoo) was free, but I have to pay the text messaging rates for each and every message sent or received, which is $.08/message. - ApplePenguin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Alltel sucks.
crappy ass service (northern Michigan), and pretty piss poor customer service/support. Granted, they are just now trying to change, but for me it's too little, too late to keep me as a customer.
With Cingular, i've got service in places that I thought just simply didn't get service period. Plus, they don't do that crappy airtime for data charge thing. - Tradcast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Looking at the news coverage - there are hints about another major launch in the near future. Anybody got the scoop? Verizon? they are also a BREW carrier. That would be cool!
- WhidbeyGeek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2According to the Alltel website they don't offer service in my area (Greater Seattle).
It's nice that they are offering this service but if you are going to bill yourself as having "America's Largest Network" I'd think that you should be working on that first. - Burritovision, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1i would not recommend listening to a podcast on a cellphone. they produce harmful RF which can damage your cells and DNA. using one for a few minutes may produce minimal or unnoticeable damage but listening to podcasts on them sounds both dangerous and expensive. just eat a lot of red meat instead.
- HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Oh great... Just what we need. More crappy quality podcasts.
- klstoner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0More folks jumping on the podcasting bandwagon. It's not a bad thing. For all the unflattering things people can say about podcasts, the simple fact is that the medium is one of the best ways of publishing audio to a selective audience. Of course, the issue of content remains, but that will come, as more people learn to use the tools and figure out how to carve out time in their days/weeks to podcast. The winners will fly, the losers will sink, and ultimately, the customer will turn out to be king. That's my guess, anyway.
- davidmcbrown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0try it
http://www.apponcell.com - szembek, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Umm... as in you can download mp3s? Podcast is just a dumb buzz word for an mp3 that usually has speaking instead of singing.
- MLyzz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2hahahahahahha, too bad nobody uses alltel
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