GPRS data costs vs. CSD dialup

[jakes]

Hi,

Just wanted to air my beef that I discovered yesterday. The discovery was that I can't access my Telus CSD dialup account with 60 hours of dialup from my Treo 680 because Rogers doesn't support CSD (only GPRS).

The drawback here is that I pay $16/month extra for 3 MB of data download and have unlimited internet traffic on the 60 hr "56 kb/s dialup" on Telus. My wife is on Bell Mobility and she has unlimited internet traffic for $7 extra/month.

So $16 for 3 MB on Rogers
vs.
$7 for unlimited on Bell

Ahh...the joys of GPRS pricing.

For those not familiar with those two terms. CSD stands for "circuit switched data", which we've all used for years (remember the days of dialup modems...ah the nostalgia).

GPRS stands "general packet radio service". GPRS data transfer is typically charged per megabyte of transferred data, while data communication via traditional circuit switching (CSD) is billed per minute of connection time, independent of whether the user has actually transferred data or has been in an idle state.

My question now is:

Has anyone figured out how to run a CSD dialup connection (either through a hacked app running on Palm OS, or ISDN) over a GPRS network?

Let's start the discussion and get this information into the open.

Please contribute.

J