My first cell phone had a modem option. I used it on more than one occasion to deal with emergencies that came up while I was traveling. It did operate at about

My first cell phone had a modem option. I used it on more than one occasion to deal with emergencies that came up while I was traveling. It did operate at about 9600 baud, and was painful for anything other than ssh sessions; which was fine for what I needed to do. I mean, simple web pages would load, but it wasn't particularly enjoyable. I could also walk away and let it download my email for 20-30 minutes. I now use 3G/4G mobile broadband for my primary internet and sometimes wish I had the option fallback to the old way; because I travel a lot in out of the way places, sometimes I have no data connectivity but voice works.