On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:40:56 +1000, Marts wrote:

> I presume that it refers to overseas markets. I can't see it happening
> here. We've had mobile services for a fair while now, and it's reaching or
> has reached saturation point. Yet it is still very expensive, what with
> timed calls at around a dollar a minute for some plans.
>
> SMSes now cost 25 cents a pop. That's expensive no matter which way you
> look at it.

Both of those costs can be reduced to a fraction - 10c/min calls, 10c SMS -
by using the right prepaid service.

Since SMS costs the carriers pretty much zero to deliver and it comes with
no guarantee of actual message delivery, it could be argued that even 10
cents is too expensive, but the cheap calls mitigate that a bit.

As for the email thing - *shudder* Can you imagine what would happen then?
Suddenly the new lingo for email would be:

"greetz! r u dat grl frm da club? i lik u 2 letz hv dinr"

Really, the vocabulary and attention span of the target market are both so
limited they don't NEED email, SMS offers more then enough space to get
their point across as incoherently as possible...