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Are there any airtime charges for using the Insat Wireless Modem?

April 26, 2017airtime Charges insat modem Wireless

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Are there any airtime charges for using the Insat Wireless Modem?

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• Your AlphaCom monthly service fee is the only charge you will incur. Part of your monthly service fee goes towards paying the CDPD providers for airtime. • What is included in the monthly fee? • Your AlphaCom Wireless monthly service fee includes unlimited time, unlimited downloads, 2 MB of space on our server for a personal web site, as well as 1 e-mail account. • Am I able to do voice/video conferencing with the AlphaCom Insat Wireless Modem? • Currently the AlphaCom Insat Wireless Modem is only able to compress the HTTP, POP3, and SMTP protocols. This means that anything that is not transmitted on those protocols is not compressed, and only uses standard CDPD bandwidth. Consequently, the standard CDPD bandwidth is not adequate enough for voice and video conferencing. In the future AlphaCom may release a product to make this possible. • How fast is the AlpahCom Insat Wireless Modem? • The actual throughput of the AlphaCom Insat Wireless Modem entirely depends on what is actually be