Confused about wirless internet

Long story short as possible. My dad recently got wireless internet through sprint. Well they told him he had unlimited access but in the very fine print he found out that he was only allowed something like 5 gb of data. Anyway his bill has tripled because these idiots didn't inform him of any limitations.
Now a friend of mine claims that he can go and buy a wireless router and appropiate cables/cards, take it home and hook it up without having to pay a monthly fee to a provider. Just use internet explorer. She says her phone bill only went up a few dollars. I know little to nothing about wireless and i'm trying to help him. So if anyone can explain this in detail (fees, limitations, etc) I would be grateful. Thank you.

Your friend is probably getting free wireless in her home, what she's not getting for free is her internet. You pay the provider for internet, and then you have the option to make it wireless in your home for the cost of the parts. On the other hand, there are areas now that are offering free wireless internet, but it's only in highly populated cities.
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I can help you with one or two of your questions:
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Next, I don't truly understand what BIS is...I searched through the KB and couldn't find anything that actually defines BIS...could somebody please explain what BIS is?
BIS is Blackberry Internet Service...a service, hosted by your carrier, that provides a conduit between internet facing email systems (e.g., Yahoo, GMail, etc.) and your BB. Inside of BIS, you create conduits for each of your email providers that you desire to receive OTA email for on your BB. BIS will check your provider on a periodic basis (documented to be every 15 minutes) and only when there is something that needs to come to your BB does it generate any traffic over the carrier network with your BB. BIS is an add-service, only available to those who, from their carrier, contract for The Blackberry Data Plan (as it is usually called) -- a generic data plan is not usually adequate to have access to BIS.
ejm1 wrote:
Finally, can somebody please explain the difference between "mobile network" and "wi-fi"? It seems, if I turn off "mobile network" I have no connection at all, including wi-fi. Is that the way things should be? But, I can turn off wi-fi and still get a connection (if I go outside as far from my house as possible and face south <g>).
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I know nothing about the pay-as-you-go programs, but from all you describe, it seems that you may well be using your carrier network at times. You will need to find out (and there are others here who know) how to shut off your carrier network yet leave WiFi running so that you don't incurr the costs of surfing via the carrier network.
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