On 3/14/06, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Moore's Law will make the packet charges cheap eventually. Besides it's up to the telco if they want short ROI but no customers, or long ROI and lots of customers.
Vodafone in the UK is offering free soap opera streaming (certain number of hours per month) to their postpaid plans. So obviously the carriers have to be willing to swallow loss-leading packet charges if they are to have any revenue.
For now, as you yourself have stated (or was it Mr Filomeno..) 3G will just be a fatter pipe for pushing rich content at unsuspecting subscribers.
On 3/14/06, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now if only Smart's 3G was working as advertised (all I get these days is a
> perpetual "Connecting..." dialog box) then we all could have some Serious
> Fun (TM).
And if we could afford the 3G packet charges (no hints yet from
Smart?) ... as we were discussing in ph-mobileapps.
Moore's Law will make the packet charges cheap eventually. Besides it's up to the telco if they want short ROI but no customers, or long ROI and lots of customers.
Vodafone in the UK is offering free soap opera streaming (certain number of hours per month) to their postpaid plans. So obviously the carriers have to be willing to swallow loss-leading packet charges if they are to have any revenue.
For now, as you yourself have stated (or was it Mr Filomeno..) 3G will just be a fatter pipe for pushing rich content at unsuspecting subscribers.
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