(keitai-l) Re: FYI: DoCoMo To Open Up I-Mode Network To Other ISPs In December

From: Donal O'Shea <d_oshea_at_pacbell.net> Date: 01/25/02 Message-id: <001101c1a5c2$ae0c88a0$9a34c93f@Erif1>

All the COBOL programmiing I suppose!

---DO'S

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Subject: (keitai-l) Re: FYI: DoCoMo To Open Up I-Mode Network To Other
ISPs In December

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Kyle Barrow wrote:

> TOKYO (Nikkei)--NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437) has decided to open its
i-mode...
> ...spending 7-8 billion yen to develop the exchanger needed for such
> connections. The exchanger is to be installed in December.

Is it just me, or does 7-8 billion yen (getting on towards $60
million) sound a tad expesive for such a thing? Sure, it's not a
hack I could pull off in a week-end or anything like that, and
dealing with billing systems is never cheap, but what on earth can
make it cost so much?

cjs
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Curt Sampson  <cjs_at_cynic.net>   +81 90 7737 2974   http://www.netbsd.org
    Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light.  --XTC

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