🚀 go-pugleaf

At 18 Jul 2009 03:50:30 -0400 tlvp wrote:

> >> And what will Caller-ID (or ANI) show the recipient of any call I
make?
> >> Just "Wireless Caller"? with no number?
> >
> > I don't know. Maybe like the caller-ID that shows up with Skype Out,
> > some incomprehensible string, or maybe "unknown."
> 
> OK, fair enough, I guess.
> 
> >> Both these handsets can (in principle) send/receive SMS messages,
and the
> >> Sprint PCS phone even has some rudimentary WAP browser. I take it
such
> >> functionality won't be supported by ARN? Or will it? How about by
PagePlus?
> >
> > ARN doesn't support it AFAIK.
> >
> > PagePlus supports data ($1.20/MB) and SMS (8 cents). All backdoor
> > Verizon voice-mail numbers work. You can send texts from a computer
with
> > the Verizon formatted e-mail address, or from the Verizon portal.
> 
> But your own PagePlus-subscribed phone gets no phone number?


I think you're confusing ARN and PagePlus now- ARN offers outgoing-only
voice service for "inactive" phones- PagePlus is a prepaid service that
assigns a phone number like any traditional mobile phone service.


> Can the recipient of an 8 cent SMS sent from a PagePlus-subscribed
> handset *reply* successfully?

Sure.