I think that the argument is quite obvious, as soon as Email from
mobile devices is as cheap as email from a PC,
then it will instantly replace SMS.

Dan

http://australia.freebiesms.com


On Jul 31, 3:24 am, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kralizec Craig <c...@lios.apana.org.au> wrote
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> > Marts <marts...@yahoo.com.au> writes
> >> Interesting article, this.
> >>http://www.theage.com.au/news/mobile...s-the-days-are...
> >> 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.
> >SMSis 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 theSMSripoff is!
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> Mindlessly superficial. Its essentially 25c per communication
> and at that rate its reasable value in many situaitons.
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> >> 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!
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