POTS service to a cell phone?

[Carl Navarro]

Back in the day, when you went to a Hamfest or Flea Market, someone
always had a converter box that let them use their cell phone with a
stadard Trans 300/330 credit card terminal.

Does anyone make that for a new cell phone? I'm guessing yes because
there are way too many docking stations that let you use your home
phone on the cell network.

Anybody have experience with this? My customer is on Alltel and not
adverse to getting a different phone.

Carl Navarro

[Rich Piehl]

Post by Carl Navarro
Back in the day, when you went to a Hamfest or Flea Market, someone
always had a converter box that let them use their cell phone with a
stadard Trans 300/330 credit card terminal.
Does anyone make that for a new cell phone? I'm guessing yes because
there are way too many docking stations that let you use your home
phone on the cell network.
Anybody have experience with this? My customer is on Alltel and not
adverse to getting a different phone.
Carl Navarro

I believe what you are looking for might be called a Dock n Talk. I
found this in a Froogle search.

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=dock+n+talk&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title

Hope this helps,
Take care,
Rich

God bless the USA

[Carl Navarro]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:37:22 -0500, Rich Piehl

Post by Rich Piehl

Post by Carl Navarro
Back in the day, when you went to a Hamfest or Flea Market, someone
always had a converter box that let them use their cell phone with a
stadard Trans 300/330 credit card terminal.
Does anyone make that for a new cell phone? I'm guessing yes because
there are way too many docking stations that let you use your home
phone on the cell network.
Anybody have experience with this? My customer is on Alltel and not
adverse to getting a different phone.
Carl Navarro

I believe what you are looking for might be called a Dock n Talk. I
found this in a Froogle search.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=dock+n+talk&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title
Hope this helps,
Take care,
Rich
God bless the USA

Thanks, Rich!

Unfortunately, I think you have to have ANALOG service to pass modem
tones.

Try to find THAT nowadays :-)

Carl

[Rich Piehl]

Post by Carl Navarro
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:37:22 -0500, Rich Piehl

Post by Rich Piehl

Post by Carl Navarro
Back in the day, when you went to a Hamfest or Flea Market, someone
always had a converter box that let them use their cell phone with a
stadard Trans 300/330 credit card terminal.
Does anyone make that for a new cell phone? I'm guessing yes because
there are way too many docking stations that let you use your home
phone on the cell network.
Anybody have experience with this? My customer is on Alltel and not
adverse to getting a different phone.
Carl Navarro

I believe what you are looking for might be called a Dock n Talk. I
found this in a Froogle search.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=dock+n+talk&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title
Hope this helps,
Take care,
Rich
God bless the USA

Thanks, Rich!
Unfortunately, I think you have to have ANALOG service to pass modem
tones.
Try to find THAT nowadays :-)
Carl

Well, I don't know what your customer is using for a zon, but Sprint
does have a service for some of their phones called 'phone as modem.'
There's an additional monthly fee for it. I can't find at the moment so
be sure ask a ton of questions, but I do recall seeing something from
Sprint about accessing third party dial up sites. And I know it was for
digital phones because I ran across it while looking at info for my
Treo, which doesn't do analog. Here's a c/p from their website

Post by Carl Navarro
How do I use the phone as a modem?
How do I use the phone as a modem?
Your Sprint Power VisionSM phone can be a high-speed Internet connection for your laptop computer anywhere on the Sprint Power Vision Network. Simply connect your Power Vision phone using a USB cable or the built-in connection on Bluetooth-enabled phones.
To use this feature, a Sprint Power Vision phone and a Flexible Data Plan are required.

Maybe it'll help, maybe it won't. In the 'whatever it's worth' department.

Take care,
Rich

God bless the USA

[Grant Edwards]

Post by Rich Piehl

Post by Carl Navarro

Post by Rich Piehl
I believe what you are looking for might be called a Dock n Talk. I
found this in a Froogle search.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=dock+n+talk&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title

Unfortunately, I think you have to have ANALOG service to pass modem
tones.
Try to find THAT nowadays :-)

Well, I don't know what your customer is using for a zon, but
Sprint does have a service for some of their phones called
'phone as modem.' There's an additional monthly fee for it.

Verizon has it for free[1] at low speed (14.4Kbps). You can use
Verizon as the ISP, or you can dial-in to wherever else you want.

[1] There's no monthly charge, but the minutes are charged
according to your normal plan.

You can get a usb cable for most any modern phone for 10$-20$
and it will act like a modem.

[s***@sellcom.com]

Post by Rich Piehl
I believe what you are looking for might be called a Dock n Talk. I
found this in a Froogle search.

The Doc-n-talk is a great product and works well with voice (we
turned off two POTS telco lines and are using a couple of old
Motorola phones and Dock-n-talks for those two lines) , but it
will not do any data or FAX at this time.

Many modern cellphones will work as modems and as FAX on their
own though.

Steve
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