[Ovmsdev] Build environment

[Lee Howard]

Here is the GoPhone plan to which I signed-up:

https://www.paygonline.com/websc/rateplans/rateplan_en.jsp

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10¢/minutefor all
nationwide calls, pay per use data
and pay per use text (or add
messaging package)

Messaging Packages available for 10¢/minute plan.
$19.99 for Unlimited, $9.99 for 1,000 Messages and $4.99 for 200 Messages


Pay-Per-Use Rates: Domestic Text - 20¢ per message sent/received, 
International text - 25¢ per message sent/20¢ per message received
Domestic Picture/Video - 25¢ per message sent/received, International 
Picture/Video - 50¢ per message sent/25¢ per message received
Data - 1¢/5 kb (Basic & Quick Messaging phones only). Pay per use data 
is not available for smartphones
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The bit about pre-paying $10/mo or $100/yr is here:

http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans/prepaidplans.html#tabAccount

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  * *Buy a GoPhone Refill card* at AT&T wireless stores or any one of
    more than 200,000 retail locations. Many cards will prompt you to
    refill right on your phone using the card PIN. Otherwise, you can
    also add the value online <https://www.paygonline.com/websc/index.jsp>.
      o Refill cards have varying expiration dates. $10 to $24 refill
        cards expire in 30 days; $25 to $99 expire in 90 days and $100
        and higher expire in 1 year.

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So because I paid $100 up-front I have 1 year to use that up in the plan 
fees (OVMS will use texting and data only).  If I limit this OVMS module 
to very little texting (mostly using it for start-up configuration) I 
should come-in under $100 data usage in the year.

Recognize that you have to take a phone in with you (not a smart phone) 
or buy one of their phones that are not "smart" for this package.  Then 
take the SIM out and put it into the OVMS module.

If you talk to them about OVMS and such then some staff will consider it 
like a "tablet" or a "mobile hotspot", and then you end up in a 
different category.

Thanks,

Lee.


On 06/11/2014 09:54 PM, phil hochstetler wrote:
>
> I walked into my local AT&T store and tried exactly that. They told me 
> you cannot get that deal anymore.  The cheapest go phone deal was more 
> than $20/month.
>
> Phil H.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Lee Howard <lee.howard at mainpine.com 
> <mailto:lee.howard at mainpine.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 06/11/2014 09:37 AM, phil hochstetler wrote:
>
>         They are a AT&T reseller but have very nice terms for our
>         limited use (much better than going to AT&T directly).  $11.88
>         / month for 200 text messages and 20 MB of data (1000 text and
>         100 MB data only costs $14.25).  These prices are with the
>         AARP 5% discount.
>
>
>     A minimal AT&T GoPhone with text and data pay-as-you-go is
>     $10/month or $100/year (prepaid).  You can get that just by
>     walking into an AT&T store.  At $100/yr that's $8.34/mo.
>
>     Just sayin'.
>
>     Lee.
>
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*Lee Howard*
*Mainpine, Inc. Chief Technology Officer*
Tel: +1 866 363 6680 | Fax: +1 360 462 8160
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