May - 19th
Telecommunications Terms – a glossary
Posted at 11:26 am | Filed Under telecom
A key system has multi-line phones with keys that you press to get dial tone on a specific line from the phone company’s Central Office (CO), or to answer a call. In smaller key systems, incoming calls usually ring at several — or all — phones. In bigger key systems, calls usually go to the […]
Mar - 22nd
T-Mobile U.S.A. GPRS/EDGE, ISDN, and WAP settings
Posted at 2:56 pm | Filed Under telecom
Want to configure your Smart Phone, tablet or telephone to use the T-Mobile data network? This is a simple collection of settings for use with the T-Mobile (formerly VoiceStream) U.S.A. network I’ve collected over the years. I have used these settings to configure my own GSM mobile phones, PDAs and laptops. They may or may […]
Dec - 5th
Using a Blackberry handheld as a dialup modem
Posted at 1:32 pm | Filed Under telecom
Introduction Did you know that BlackBerry can now be used just like an external modem for a laptop computer, so that a laptop can have full Internet access? This is useful when you need to do certain things that a BlackBerry cannot yet do. Increasing numbers of success reports have caused me to post this […]