There are also the issues being brought up about cellphones possibly causing cancer because of the radio waves they emit. None the less, all the radio waves we bombard our bodies with (cell phones, wireless internet, television signals, etc) can’t be good for us and it looks like people are starting to show the signs of this kind of abuse for this fairly new technology. I hope some well established scientific organization tackles this issue once and for all.

That is awesome about the wireless internet. Thanks for indulging me! If one was not able to use the mobile phone based internet for some reason, you could always conjure up a long range wifi antenna so you could pick up signals from a decent distance. It would make it pretty hard to track you down as well because (from at least my understanding) the ability of the police to triangulate the signal would be impaired because you would be pretty far away from the location from which the signal was actually being transmitted.

I love how these conversations go from one thing to another. First the iPhone, now mobile internet

I’m all for exploiting wireless that’s available but I hate the way things have gone down that road - mobile signals give me a headache even if I’m only near someone else using a phone. They’re biologicially destructive evil things that’ll soon be the basis of way more lawsuits than any tobacco claims.

re: the free phone internet - it’s probably the same thing I was meaning, the phones here (UK) can get online with GPRS, 3G, HSDPA and some other methods. There’s usb modems available so that you can get mobile phone internet (faster than dial up and depending on coverage gets up to about 8Mb in speed, so the ad’s say anyway) without having a phone - you just plug the modem into a usb port on a laptop or computer - these get online wherever there’s a mobile phone signal.
But, you need a simcard or on some models a pcmcia or similar, which as with phones in general must be in some way activated for use on a network provider (O2, orange, T mobile, etc) account.

So by magic numbers I’m meaning those dial-in numbers and account details that get you online for free; it’s a matter of knowing what to key in for the logins, or bypassing that altogether.
It’s something you can’t really do from your own landline (surf entirely anon, or near-enough it) because at some point it’ll be logged that it’s your phone number that’s connected even if it’s just at your ISP, so then there’s the house details to go with the landline number being logged and so forth.

What I’d certainly be doing with such a set-up would be to have the reciever antenna(e) as far away from me as possible, and a long cord jacked into the usb. Although to be fair, I’ve found WLANs to be painless by comparison to mobile phone reception thus far - I can still feel it moving through me and messing with my energy but it’s not sore.
Mentioned the Q-link bridge at another entry here - those have quite a range. Pricey, but then they would be. Such things interest me as they can be placed in urban environments somewhat un-noticably and as long as line-of-sight and signal strengths are paid heed, can link or bounce free wireless to wherever you want.

Now that there’s more internet over mobile phone network deals available, why am I not getting free internet yet at home?
More seriously, other than using free (or ‘free’) wireless links and the like, this whole 3G and above mobile internet holds the best promise for getting online entirely anonymously.
Yes, there’d be issues with tracking signals from the phones, but there’s ways around that.

Magic numbers must be sought.