Hi Owen,
I have both CDMA GSM, and I can travel throughout my country and roam
seamlessly (but not interoperatorably) at under 1 cent per minute. I dont
have to change my operators in almost 90% of the country. At any well
covered location my (GSM) handset can usually detect about 5 or 6
Hi
I'm hugely amazed by your post. Being involved in telecom regulatory matters
(as a citizen stakeholder) in my country. I'm surprised that consumers in
yours tolerate such nonsense.
Just to provide some reference points
In India: The average postpaid mobile commitment cost is about US$3 per
But you have to understand several things to understand why most americans
understand very little about celular telecom:
1 - Probably 80% of Friam does not understand the difference between GSM and
CDMA, the two major celular protocols in the US. And that they do not
interoperate. I've
BTW Sarbajit, you are a gmail user. Could you enumerate the difficulties,
even immoralities, that entails? We have to be careful what we consider
free.
-- Owen
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Owen,
You should also mention that
1. Even if you have a GSM phone, unless you either pay a high price for an
unlocked phone, have a Blackberry or are aware of the issue and find out how to
unlock your phone, you are in danger of being hit with enormous roaming charges
when you go to another
Ouch! I realize that sounds harsh.
Let me be clearer. Gmail is very sophisticated. And with cleaver plugins,
you can make it less noisy and have a UI you'd prefer (See Minimalist for
Gmail http://goo.gl/gSAi4).
But it is not IMAP or POP. This means 100% of new users of gmail haven't a
clue
