Looking for AT&T / Verizon / Sprint WWAN service impressions- on or off-list replies welcome

Wed Apr 15 20:22:13 UTC 2009

After much hassle and several false starts and disconnects in getting in
touch with the right department in Sprint, I spoke to a woman in
technical support in the group that supports 3G data cards.  

She said:

- public IP addresses are used
- static IP available for $3/mo additional
- maximum 3G data plan is 5GB/mo of data transfer, retail reate, $60/mo
(which is typically cheaper than your typical ADSL/IDSL or ISDN service
cost)

Sam Crooks

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm at rollernet.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:13 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Looking for AT&T / Verizon / Sprint WWAN service
impressions- on or off-list replies welcome

Charles Wyble wrote:
>
>
> Crooks, Sam wrote:
>> I'm considering use of AT&T / Verizon / Sprint WWAN services and the 
>> Cisco 3G router interface cards/integrated module in C880 routers for

>> primary or backup WAN network connectivity for routers.
>>
>
> I haven't used the integrated cards with cisco gear. However I do have
> 300+ cards deployed throughout the United States (EVDO USB modems on
> Linux boxes).
>
>
>> I'm looking for information from users of these services on the
>> following:
>> - addressing - Do these WWAN services use dynamic, PPPoE or static IP

>> assignment typically? Any of the 3? All?
>>    - is static IP assignment available?
>
> We have static IP assignment for our Verizon cards. Sprint cards 
> aren't static.
>

I received an offlist response indicating Sprint now offers static.

~Seth