Dan Anos <fiach.reid@gmail.com> wrote

> I think that the argument is quite obvious,

More fool you...

> as soon as Email from mobile devices is as cheap as
> email from a PC, then it will instantly replace SMS.

No it wont, because it isnt as convenient to email as
it is to SMS from most mobile phones, and plenty of
the low end mobile phones cant even email anyway.

And most dont compare prices like that anyway.


> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
>> Kralizec Craig <c...@lios.apana.org.au> wrote
>>> 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!
>>
>> 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.