Using Your Alltel Bluetooth Phone as a Modem »
If you should happen to have connected your Alltel phone using Bluetooth - be it an LG 8600 like I used or something else - then of course the next question is how you go about using the phone as a modem. Of course if you have reliable broadband, then this isn't a typical need, but it's still nice to know how to do it, or if it's even possible.
I did some reading on the subject, and it seems that there is no complete guide to this - perhaps because Alltel doesn't want you to know how to do it or just because there isn't a lot of call for it. When I called them, the only answer I got was that I could purchase a data card and a data plan for ~$60 per month. For a backup to a service that doesn't even cost that, it's not really feasible. So I decided to do some exploring. The good news it that it seems to work and the speed is good. The bad news is that the connection isn't great and the unknown is what it will cost.
