(keitai-l) Re: i-mode Italian launch details

From: Giovanni Bertani <giovanni.bertani_at_exsense.com>
Date: 11/20/03
Message-Id: <200311200900.hAK90Ji6007104@gmoblmail4.net.vodafone.it>
Hi Sandra
i-mode services and traffic are charged on your prepaid sim card. Italy has 
been the first EU market to see the success of prepaid and this rappresents 
the payment method for close to all cosumer users and also the majority of 
the business ones.
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Giovanni Bertani

...... Original Message .......
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:21:33 +0100 <Sandra.Baron@swisscom.com> wrote:
>I read yesterday that KPN offers the first i-mode via prepaid.
>Gerhard, do you expect to offer i-mode via prepaid in Italy aswell?
>What is the market share between pre- and postpaid in Italy?
>
>Gr.
>Sandra
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Giovanni Bertani [mailto:giovanni.bertani@exsense.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 6:37 PM
>To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>Subject: (keitai-l) i-mode Italian launch details
>
>
>
>Here are the italian i-mode details 
>announced at the launch event in 
>Milan:
>
>CONTENT PROVIDERS
>140 content providers involved with
> more than 200 sites.
>
>HANDSETS
>Nec N341i  399 euro
>Nec N223i 249 euro
>As promotion they will include some 
>free call time, free messages and 
>e-mail traffic. 
>
>COSTS
>Single content service cost
> per month is between 1 euro and 3
>euro plus 1 cent per kbyte of data
>traffic (No flat as expected).
>
>JAVA CONTENT
>Supported only on the  N341i.
>
>My first impression:
>Great content selection but 
>poor choice of handsets due
>to the proprietary technology
>used.
>
>We will see.
>
>I will post more details in the future.
>
>Giovanni Bertani
>
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Received on Thu Nov 20 11:02:09 2003