Heh, I used to use my first cellphone for dialup back in the early 2000's with T-Mobile USA. The setup was via bluetooth from a Sony Ericsson t68i (amazingly th

Heh, I used to use my first cellphone for dialup back in the early 2000's with T-Mobile USA. The setup was via bluetooth from a Sony Ericsson t68i (amazingly this phone still works) to a Palm Tungsten T. Then I could get a 9.6kbps connection to do IRC with it. TMUS never deployed HSCSD since it would have stressed capacity on the network (eating up more timeslots) The reason I used this method over GPRS was that T-Mobile started to put in port blocking for their $2.99/mo T-Zones WAP plan so IRC wouldn't connect (I later on figured out I could run SSH on imap port 143 and forward through there). I had unlimited nights and weekends and CSD used minutes, not data buckets. So what I did was connect to a free dialup provider in New England. It worked well except for dialup time and dropoffs if the signal got low. EDIT: More recently I used a globalstar phone to mess around on IRC like the old days, also with a 9.6kbps connection BUT CONNECTED THROUGH SPACE! (pic: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8356/27784526013_bee94fd5dc_h.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8356/27784526013_bee94fd5dc_h... )