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If by "the old way" you mean, like, with a modem, aka "dial up"?

I'm not certain, but i think it's unfortunately not possible to use a modem over a cellular connection.

I'm putting this here calling out "model"/"dial-up" specifically, in case anyone else knows for sure.

It actually is possible, but at very low bitrate. I've seen more than a few demo's showing at leats 9600 baud is possible. But you need someone on the other end to set up the gateway.

[edit to add] My memory was off, it was 300 baud. quick search yields things like this: http://www.gsm-modem.de/M2M/m2m-faq/how-to-send-data-over-gs... https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1497979 https://github.com/quiet/quiet-lwip

300 baud... is better than nothing to at least give you email, but I'd definitely want an email client connecting over SMTP/POP/IMAP, not try to use something like gmail in the browser.

Looks like it's a bit of a tricky thing to set up.

yes, "dial up" is what I meant, thanks for specifying it.

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