Stephen Tashiro
07-22-2012, 11:55 AM
I went to a friend's house, thinking my mission was merely to get her new answering machine set up. She has a new ATT&T brand answering machine/wireless-phone set but she also has a device with an antenna. It's from Sprint. She has a receipt from Best Buy for the answering machine, but she insists she got all the equipment at the local Sprint store. She didn't find any paperwork from Sprint. I find that her wall jacks no longer give a dial tone (the local phone company is Centurly Link, formerly Qwest). It turns out that the gizmo from Sprint is for wireless phone service. You plug the answering machine into the Sprint gizmo and you get a dial tone.
She doesn't have a cell phone and she was using a dialup modem to get her email. Naturally this no longer works. I don't know if it would work with the Sprint gizmo or whether whatever "plan" she has allows such a connection. Sprint technical support was helpful in getting their device set up, but they won't give out any information about what plan she has unless the account number and a PIN are provided. My friend says she doesn't have any paperwork from Sprint yet.
Does the Sprint gizmo ring a bell with anyone? Anyone know what kind of "plan" she might have purchased?
She doesn't have a cell phone and she was using a dialup modem to get her email. Naturally this no longer works. I don't know if it would work with the Sprint gizmo or whether whatever "plan" she has allows such a connection. Sprint technical support was helpful in getting their device set up, but they won't give out any information about what plan she has unless the account number and a PIN are provided. My friend says she doesn't have any paperwork from Sprint yet.
Does the Sprint gizmo ring a bell with anyone? Anyone know what kind of "plan" she might have purchased?