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!

>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!

Craig.
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