Connect phone to Telstra NextG using Ubuntu?

[Blake Munro]

Hi Jean,

That is correct. You don't need another ISP, as you are not actually
"dialling" as you were with the old CDMA phone.

Next G data is a single product, with Telstra being the ISP and also the
phone network provider.

You simply dial *99# to establish the connection and then you are online
immediately. It takes about 1 second to authenticate. The old technology was
like WAP where you dialled a number and were charged for time.

Next G has two models of pricing available, one being time charged and the
other being data charged.

Sorry I don't have much more idea about bluetooth

Goodluck!

Blake

On 11/1/07, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanweber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Blake, thanks for the response.
>
> So I don't dial iinet at all, is that what you're saying? I vaguely
> remember something similar from using my CDMA phone for data several years
> ago, but at that time my internet account was with Bigpond. Although I
> wrote in my earlier note that I'd used CDMA to access iinet, I was
> mis-remembering.
>
> Thanks for the reminder about the data-pack. I hope I can put it on for a
> few months and then take it off again, because my outback travel tends to
> be very seasonal.
>
> Any other tips gratefully accepted, for example how to get Bluetooth up
> and
> running.
>
> Cheers, Jean
>
> Blake Munro wrote:
> > Hi Jean,
> >
> > Once you have the bluetooth up and running, create a dial up connection
> > that dials *99#
> > You don't need a username or password, leave IP settings to DHCP. That
> > should be all you need to do.
> >
> > Be careful and make sure you arrange for Telstra to put a data-pack on
> > your account first that suits your needs or you'll be paying huge $$ per
> > mb.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Blake
> >
> > On 10/31/07, *Jean Hollis Weber* <jeanweber at gmail.com
> > <mailto:jeanweber at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >     I have a Nokia 6120classic, a NextG account with Telstra, an
> internet
> >     account with iinet, and Bluetooth on both my computer and the phone.
> At
> >     home I have ADSL (so I don't need the phone to connect) but when
> >     travelling
> >     in the outback I used to access the internet using a CDMA phone as a
> >     modem
> >     (with a serial connection) and iinet's dial-up number. Now I want to
> >     use my
> >     Nokia phone as a dial-up modem with the Bluetooth connection.
> >
> >     I run Ubuntu 7.10. All the posts I've found on the Whirlpool site
> >     about the
> >     Nokia6120 not surprisingly say "It's easy, just use the PC suite
> >     software"
> >     which of course is Windows only. Not much help!
> >
> >     Can anyone help me? (Can it be done?) Note: I can use a command line
> and
> >     edit config files if I have to, but otherwise I am really a dummy
> >     when it
> >     comes to a lot of this stuff, so if someone could explain in really
> >     simple
> >     terms to me what I need to do, I would be very grateful. Thanks!
> >
> >     --Jean
> >
>
>
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