Kralizec Craig <cd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote
> Marts <marts_57@yahoo.com.au> writes

>> Interesting article, this.

>> http://www.theage.com.au/news/mobile...339221496.html

>> 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. Also, 3G services have been around
>> for a while and data costs are horrendous.

> SMS is even more expensive when you realise that you're paying 25
> cents to transfer a pitiful 160 bytes of data! If telco's charged at
> that rate for MMS messages, a typical MMS containing a bit of text
> and a picture file with a total data content of about 20 KB would be
> costing $32 to send!

> That's how blatant the SMS ripoff is!

Mindlessly superficial. Its essentially 25c per communication
and at that rate its reasable value in many situaitons.

>> I can't see the major players looking to make mobile data services
>> affordable to anyone other than those who require them for business
>> purposes in either the short or the long term.

> Even then they aren't cheap. But if someone can afford the
> actual cost of a Blackberry, Nokia N-series phone, etc. then
> they really should not complain about the service cost!

More mindlessly superficial silly stuff.