On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:01:08 +0000, Larry wrote:

Larry wrote in news:Xns98FDDBACE5C7Fnoonehomecom@
208.49.80.253:

this beautiful
blonde in the tight skirt talked me into Axcess TV:


Be advised it stops running every few minutes and asks, "Resume watching
TV?" to which you have to press YES or NO to continue. Of course, this
causes it to have to reconnect then reload its data buffer so if you were
watching a news channel, by the time it starts TV again, what you wanted to
watch is long gone.

I've made a complaint to both Alltel and MobiTV as there is no way to stop
it doing this, no options to chose from. I paid for UNLIMITED DATA to feed
it. I don't need to be disconnected every few minutes, forcing me to
reconnect it. Damned cellular BS!

If this can't be fixed, I may only keep it one month (not refundable).....
Damn them all....


Larry

Larry,
The disconnecting every few minutes and the seeking of confirmation
that you want to continue is something that your provider instituted.
It is not a necessity of the technology. With unlimited data plans,
there is no charge for individual packets (depending on the plan) and
thus they obviously wish to disconnect if you are not actively
watching TV. There is no technical reason apart from network and
access capacity on the IN why a 'disconnect' or 'continue' should be
forced. Once a connection is established it could continue forever.

I worked as a Tech. project manager for Vodafone with MMS (multimedia
messaging and a few other core network projects. My colleague next to
me was working on mobile tv. Of course we knew a lot about each
other's projects.
cheers
Peter

Having returned the low powered monster bagphone back to my old V60i on
Alltel, I made the mistake of driving by the store to pay my bill,
yesterday afternoon. They have the store designed so I have to walk by
the neat new phones to get to the payment desk.

Well, short version, I ended up with a new Motorola E815 CDMA-only color
phone/camera/video cam/etc, etc, etc...$70 on a 2-yr contract. I liked
the big screen and LARGER-THAN-USUAL case I can get my MANLY meat hooks
around. The fact it WASN'T slippery like my V60i always was trying to
open it was also a plus, too.

Today, after mistakenly fooling around on alltel.com's Axcess data
webpages, I somehow ended up back at the store where this beautiful
blonde in the tight skirt talked me into Axcess TV:
http://alltel.com/axcess/tv.html
(Click on the phone display to see how it works....)
The $9.95/month isn't the REAL price because it eats up your cellphone
airtime while you're watching...per minute! Under clicking "What do I
need", it tells you about the OTHER $10/month charge for unlimited DATA
delivered to the TV so you can actually afford to WATCH it for more than
5 minutes. So, the real price is $19.95...plus tax loads, of course.

It's NOT HDTV and has a very slow frame rate because Charleston, SC,
STILL doesn't have EVDO broadband (late April is promised, now) on
Alltel. Florida boaters will get lots faster frames than I do. The
picture is formatted for a cellphone and is VERY nice. Every few
minutes, Alltel tries to get you to stop hitting the data server so hard
by stopping the downloading and asking you if you wish to continue. You
have to press a button to get it running for more time...which sucks.

Now, ON TOPIC, boaters seem to be looking for a way to get Weather
Channel and cable news from the anchorage. THIS IS A GREAT WAY! $20
extra on your Alltel bill isn't exhorbitant for the lots of megabytes
this service is going to eat. The picture, of course, is "personal". If
you have a PDA phone, the picture's bigger than mine. But, it's not
totally useless. With my glasses on, I can easily read the text on Fox
News Channel...even the fine print on the ads. Having cable TV in your
pocket, anywhere you go, is really cool, probably more useful than
cellphone's awful internet services.

Wow...Japan just had a 7.1 EARTHQUAKE offshore! No news yet on tsumani
warnings... Maybe this will take their minds off poisoned dead pets for
the last 5 days....

Larry
--
Message for Comcrap Internet Customers:
http://tinyurl.com/3ayl9c
Unlimited Service my ass.....(d^

Larry wrote in news:Xns98FDDBACE5C7Fnoonehomecom@
208.49.80.253:

this beautiful
blonde in the tight skirt talked me into Axcess TV:


Be advised it stops running every few minutes and asks, "Resume watching
TV?" to which you have to press YES or NO to continue. Of course, this
causes it to have to reconnect then reload its data buffer so if you were
watching a news channel, by the time it starts TV again, what you wanted to
watch is long gone.

I've made a complaint to both Alltel and MobiTV as there is no way to stop
it doing this, no options to chose from. I paid for UNLIMITED DATA to feed
it. I don't need to be disconnected every few minutes, forcing me to
reconnect it. Damned cellular BS!

If this can't be fixed, I may only keep it one month (not refundable).....
Damn them all....


Larry
--

Peter Hendra wrote in
:

Larry,
The disconnecting every few minutes and the seeking of confirmation
that you want to continue is something that your provider instituted.
It is not a necessity of the technology. With unlimited data plans,
there is no charge for individual packets (depending on the plan) and
thus they obviously wish to disconnect if you are not actively
watching TV. There is no technical reason apart from network and
access capacity on the IN why a 'disconnect' or 'continue' should be
forced. Once a connection is established it could continue forever.

I worked as a Tech. project manager for Vodafone with MMS (multimedia
messaging and a few other core network projects. My colleague next to
me was working on mobile tv. Of course we knew a lot about each
other's projects.
cheers
Peter


I know all that. But, alas, it's still the usual cellular dishonesty to
NOT tell the customer, right up front, that his TV is going to turn
itself off EVERY 10 MINUTES, just to try and save the company money.

Whatever they sell, there has to be some kind of deceit, or an out-and-
out lie, in there, somewhere.

I'm committed for 30 days...That should be long enough for them to fix
the STUPIDITY....

I'm not a friendly character when you lie or screw me.

The culprit could also be MobiTV, who provides the source of the feeds
Alltel simply transfers, too. They have a pecuinary interest in dumping
me every 10 minutes, too.