On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Ken Chang wrote:
> the problem is foreign carriers cannot rely on packet fee as DoCoMo.
> maybe you could do it yesterday or today, but not tomorrow. a big
> problem for mobile carriers.
I don't see that Docomo doesn't have the same problem. They've already
cut their packet fees by quite a bit on the FOMA network, which they're
trying to get everybody to switch over to. And AU's already cheaper,
isn't it? Not to mention pressure from PHS and WiFi. (This is very
little pressure at the moment, but as the phone providers try to
introduce more sophisticated applications that will compete with PDAs
and computers, they're going to feel more pressure to get the packet
charges for those applications down to something that can compete with
the charges for the wireless systems used by PDAs and computers.)
I don't think that anybody is going to be able to maintain the current
pricing for wireless data. But it's never going to be cheap compared to
wireline data, anyway, so I think there will always be money to be made
there.
cjs
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Received on Tue Oct 21 10:37:10 2003