Activating the CDPD Account

Now that you have got your CDPD modem, you need to activate it on the CDPD Network.
This is probably the toughest part of the process. Primarily because CDPD Service Operators do not understand the very basics of Data Communications. CDPD Service is still relatively expensive and obtaining a CDPD service account is still not as easy as it can be. The gravity of this problem is probably best expressed in the following quote from W. Frezza, "Going the Way of Wireless", Network Computing, October 1, 1995.

The public telecommunications carriers don't understand the data communications business and couldn't market modems to PC users if their lives depended on it.