* Tomasz Zielinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070115 15:07]: > 2007/1/14, Andreas Kostyrka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >c) without being online all the time, you probably need to use it > >interactivly. 144B/s is way to slow for sensible feedback in the 1-2 > >seconds a user might accept to wait. > > Well, think about long wave submarine communication channel, which can > send about three bytes in ten minutes :-]
Guess they don't send TCP/IP over it then. The ratio of effort and gained value doesn't work out here: Submarine case: Really huge effort I guess. Value gained: priceless, because there is no other way to get any message trough. Data-over-voice-gsm: Effort: huge. Value gained: saved about the cost for a very very slow GPRS connection. Paid instead the cost of a voice call, blocked voice channel, and so on. <paranoid-mode> Potential legal problems, as some telcos might take that as misuse, fraud and press charges. </paranoid-mode> Put bluntly, even with CDN$0.03 a kb, to make sense you would need the voice call to cost way below CDN$0.25 per minute to be cheaper in the bestcase. Not sure even if this is the case. Andreas _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
