On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 13:27 Japan, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Giorgio Andreoli wrote:
>
>> Conversely, having a low-quality voice is probably the most powerful
>> factor holding back people from throwing their fixed line in favour of
>> mobile.
>
> I don't find this so plausable. Some people will happy live with
> low-quality voice if it saves them a reasonable amount of money: were
> this not so, why would long-distance operators offer an "economy"
> option
> with lower voice quality at less cost? (Take a look at Brastel's plans
> for an example of this.)
>
> I suspect what's more holding people back is cost. Of the non-geeky
> friends I've seen switch to wireless-only, they switched by realizing,
> after using a phone and a landline for a while, that the landline was
> costing them more than what it would cost just to do all their talking
> on the wireless.
Hear, hear. Several Japanese friends, all non-techies, either dumped
their landlines or chose to forgo the landline setup altogether. Some
only installed landlines to feed ADSL into their homes.
Kyle
http://pukupi.com
Received on Fri Oct 10 08:46:34 2003