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Feeding “Big Red”

For a while now, T-Mobile’s offer for a USD $1 a day prepaid Sidekick plan. This meant that unlimited web browsing, sms, instant messaging, and email. The dirty secret is this worked for all handsets – including an unlocked iPhone… until this weekend (8AUG09). A small group of Howard Forums [link] users confirmed that T-Mobile has cut off application and browser HTTP access.

I’ve been a closeted HTC Magic (T-Mobile G1) user for a while and though I have an iPhone on AT&T, I wanted to have a backup network. Dependent on WiFi to be of any use, I had to unlock my G1 and put it on the AT&T network. Although costly, AT&T is currently the only US Carrier that would allow GPRS/EDGE on a prepaid account.

T-Mobile is now opening up a dialog on prepaid data plans in its forums [link]. Now, I would like to see a cheaper plan for data, but I don’t even know what would be equitable to me and T-Mobile. I’m willing to pay $1 a day, but for only the days that I use my phone. I’m not against paying for a block of data, i.e  (n GB for $x) but it doesn’t seem fair that people who have contracts enjoy far cheaper data rates.

I don’t see T-Mobile coming coming out with a plan any time soon, but at least I can get back and running at 25¢ a minute per call, and .02¢ a KB for data.

How was your day? Good? Great, mine was okay except for when…
MARTHA STEWART FUCKING SAID THAT I HAD THE BEST TWEET!

Now, to be honest I stumbled upon Fox News’ Neil Cavuto interviewing Martha. I wasn’t too sure how long the interview was going on, but judging that Neil was asking about the fairness of the rich paying taxes and the effectiveness of President Obama, I didn’t think it was going to last much longer. I am not going to assume the intentions of Fox News, but the line of questioning was challenging Martha Stewart the successful businesswoman and Martha Stewart the progenitor of good things.

A great diplomat, Martha dismissed the statistic of non-tax payers and made no apologies about the staggering economic divide between her and the people who consume her products. Shame on Fox News for trying to trap a former billionaire in a self-righteous sound byte, and bravo to Martha for not allowing anyone to bring her down.

She barely got to plug the products selling at Wal*Mart and her website!