PETTERI PYYNY <webmaster_at_afterdawn.com> WROTE:
> Comparing U.S. wireless adaption, minutes/user/month
> used for calling from the mobile (yes, U.S. is the only
> country what I know that receiving a call to cell phone
> costs for the receiver), WAP usage, SMS usage and so on
> to other industrial countries is ridicilous.
> Good example is SMS, which is now really just coming to
> the U.S. consumers -- in Finland, they have population
> of 5 million people, 3 million cell phones and in last
> year they sent out over 1 billion SMS messages. And
> this is probably the most primitive use of wireless
> data used today. And location pushes are currently
> working in Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Finland,
> Norway).
Probably a factor in this is that in many European
countries, the local phone access costs per connect
minute as if it were long distance in the USA. So the
escape to cell phones makes more sense there, since
they are already paying a godawful fee to the local
monopoly - usually the post office.
I'll be cell phones cost the same or less than home phones.
Here the cricket phone is starting to make that change.
I know people who would tear out their local phone access
if they could modem over the cricket - which they may
be able to do but don't know how. They also need the
extension phone concept.
It's a way to leapfrog over the inertia of government
interference in the market.
Received on Wed Feb 21 2001 - 11:30:50 CST
