(keitai-l) Re: i-mode launch and service offering announced by E-Plus

From: Arjen van Blokland <ab_at_tkk.att.ne.jp>
Date: 03/05/02
Message-Id: <4.3.2-J.20020305114851.05842020@tkk.att.ne.jp>
Thanks Juergen you won!
We can probably find the other English translation later today in the 
well-advertised FAQ ;-)

Without kidding, your English skills improved during the past couple of 
weeks! Chapeau!

Arjen
ab@104.com
www.104.com

At 11:33 02/03/05 +0900, you wrote:

>Arjen,
>
>Tuesday, March 05, 2002, you wrote:
> > E-Plus announced yesterday its i-mode service profile for Germany.
> > Pricing scheme is different, in particular standard price of EUR 0.19 for
> > an i-mail of maximum 1000 characters.
> > Seems E-Plus did not want to canabalize it SMS-revenues.
> > Juergen, Gerhard can you (finally) do something useful for the list? Can
> > you translate it as native German speakers?
>
>as we learned yesterday, Gerhard is now a native English
>speaker (Slobby vs Sloppy) and you complain about my bad
>English all the time in private mail anyway, so what's the
>point of doing your job for free?
>
> > If both of you start working now (TUE, 7:07am JCT), the list-members can
> > check the speed and quality of your work. Good measure of the quality of
> > the consulting work you both advertise and your linguistic capabilities ;-)
>
>First this list is moderated and we don't get the mails as
>early as you post them and second it's basically a bad article
>not really worth a translation. But since you ask so nice,
>here is a summary anyway:
>
>* Start of German i-mode: March 16th 2002.
>* German i-mode works based on GPRS.
>* Only one handset available in the beginning: NEC 21i,
>   paku-paku style (foldable), color screen, 120x160 pixel,
>   256 colors, polyphonic ring tones, integrated (?) games,
>   T9 text input system.
>* The phone costs including a 24 months contract 249 Euro.
>* G-i-mode costs 3 Euro monthly with a contract for
>   at least 6 months.
>* Packet fee is 1 cent for 1kb.
>* Pay content is available between 0,25 to 2 Euro per month.
>* One max 1000 character long email (called i-mail) costs 0,19 Euro.
>* The first 2 months they offer 50 i-mails and 10 content
>   subscriptions for free to promote the service.
>
>Juergen
>
>
>This mail was sent to address ab@tkk.att.ne.jp
>Need archives? How to unsubscribe? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/
Received on Tue Mar 5 05:00:03 2002