Larry wrote:
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$60/month buys you spam-soaked webpages, email and "company intranet",
which is how the school probably is configured for it....

Think it's not enforced? Read:
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If you want cheap data service with no restrictions, you can get
T-Mobile. I got a BlackBerry this summer and used it as a modem. The
data rate isn't bad (about the same as dialup) and with EDGE it can do
much better. The total cost is $30 a month, but voice calls are $0.20
a minute. I recently converted it to a "family plan" phone, and in
that mode unlimited BlackBerry data is only $20 a month on top of the
normal phone charge.

The browser built in is an HTML browser; most major sites recognize it
as a handheld and scale down the display, but you can force it to look
like normal IE if that's needed for some sites. When used as a modem
tethered to a PC everything just works, though I haven't tried Skype.
Unlike the other companies, TMo has no restrictions on tethered use.

Although some say T-Mobile coverage is not as good as Cingular/ATT or
Verizon, I haven't had any problem with T-Mobile on the New England coast.