but over sms you can charge the users for every sms, and not only for the
subscription. makes it very different. if you have a smaller userbase, but
charge them for every sms you send them you can earn quite a bit given
that you deliver some messages to each of them.
.tmk
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Tom Hume wrote:
> This may be the case in Japan, but in Europe the situation is different.
> One of our clients is a provider of wireless healthcare content (over WAP,
> SMS, 3G and PDAs). They've been running since 2000, and whilst their
> traffic is significant, it's less than half a million subscribers monthly.
>
> There hasn't been much of a "subscription model" here until recently, so
> flat license fees for content have been used by (some) operators: perhaps
> this has helped. Multiple channels, particularly SMS, also give you an
> opportunity to reach more consumers...
>
> At 13:00 10/06/2003 +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> >As someone else here pointed out, you need a
> >half million subscribers or so to keep a site up and running with a lot
> >of content, and the subscriber numbers just aren't there to make many
> >companies put in the effort.
Received on Tue Jun 10 12:41:22 2003