>as for pricing: to become an i-mode user you need to do
>> >a voice contract for 24 months with eplus. as for i-mode
>> >you pay 3 euro, 1 to 3 euro for premium services plus
>> >0,01 euro per KB (with an introductory offer until end of april 2002).
>> >the NEC phone itself is priced at 249,- euro and there is
>> >no further subsidy. overall, the whole thing is quite
>> >expensive as i-mode in German wants to go after the target
>> >group that has enough money to spend generating nice ARPUs.
>
> I consider myself to belong to the target group of E-Plus for the i-mode
> service (student, tech-loving, young...) but I have to say that the pricing is
> just inappropriately high! Especially the price for the handset (for 249
> Euros, I get a very nice phone when I sign a 2 year contract). Even worse,
> since I am already an E-Plus customer, I would have to pay 449 Euros to ³buy²
> myself out of my running contract (as long as it is not already running for at
> least 1 year). That is just too much, I think.
>
> And 0,01 Euro per KB is kind of fake, too, since there is a flat fee for
> i-mail messages of 0,19 (!) cents PLUS the charge per KB...
>
>> >as for the device: a pity that no Java is supported. the colour
>> >screen is cool and the flip phone form factor something
>> >most Germans don't know except for motorola and I believe
>> >samsung.
>
> The device looks cheap and I doubt that it appeals to German consumers who
> are crazy for Nokia and the other ³European² brands.
>
> Just my humble opinion as a potential user.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christian
>
Received on Thu Mar 21 22:02:47 2002