Palm internet without PhoneLink?

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I want to change my wireless provider. I used to be an AT&T Wireless
customer and used their GPRS service with much success. However,
after their merger with Cingular, I (along with other NC subscribers)
was shifter over to SunCom. I have been disappointed with their
service (lots of dropped calls, GPRS doesn't work anymore) and my
contract ran out a couple of days ago, so right now I'm investigating
alternatives.

I'd like to return to the days when I could connect my Palm (a T|T3)
to my phone and surf the web, use SSH, etc. on my palm via a Bluetooth
connection. I used Palm's PhoneLink before with AT&T to do this.
Palm only lists Cingular and T-Mobile as supported vendors in the US,
but I can't use either of them successfully. Cingular has a terrible
signal at my house (worse than SunCom, which is already pretty bad),
and T-Mobile isn't available in NC.

Verizon and AllTel seem to have decent signal at my house, and they
both sell phones (Nokia 6255i, Moto V710, etc.) that claim to support
the Bluetooth DUN profile. However, in addition to both providers'
absences from PhoneLink, none of the phones are listed as supported
either.

Would I be able to coax them to connect anyway? Is the phone's
support of the Bluetooth DUN profile sufficient to get a net
connection or is it just necessary and requires additional support on
the Palm side? Is there any way, aside from PhoneLink, to make the
PDA access the network?

-alan

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