(keitai-l) Two problems

From: John Whelan <john.whelan_at_alatto.com>
Date: 11/18/03
Message-ID: <LBEGKPCPOAGEFNJMEDKAGEJPCOAA.john.whelan@alatto.com>
Can I ask if anyone has any thoughts or solutions about getting around the
following problems:

A. Consumers in Europe sometimes need to upgrade the OS on a handset (for
various reasons - usually unstable OS delivered by handset manufacturer!).
In doing so normally they lose any content items (ringtones, logos, java
apps) that they have purchased previously and stored on the phone.

Has anyone come across a technical solution for this in Japan/Korea? It is
possible to store the apps on a server and re-download however for handsets
out there already this will not work. May be possible to do something with
cable as the operation usually takes place in a shop.

B. Prepaid subscription services. Since Prepaid not very applicable in Japan
this may be more difficult. Problem is what type of model to deploy in order
charge a prepaid consumer who wishes to subscribe to a data service. Not
really practical to simply debit the account at a certain time of the month
as credit may not be there, and user needs to be prompted to top up.
Something like the O2 "bolt on"  concept may be more appropriate.

Thanks for any input.

John Whelan
Received on Tue Nov 18 15:40:43 2003