The Asahi news website reports (in Japanese) that
CNN's i-mode service will be free until August 1,
after which time the headlines will be accessible at
no charge with full-text access fee-based.
The article does not specify what the charge will be
for full text access.
http://www.asahi.com/0704/news/business04002.html
--Dan
>According to ZDNet:
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2597935,00.html?c
>hkpt=p1bn (URL may wrap)
>CNN formed an alliance with DoCoMo to provide Internet news and
>information. It also says that, "In a departure from the traditional
>model of free Internet site access, customers will receive news
>headlines for free, but pay 300 yen or $2.83 to download articles."
>
>I have checked out the CNN content available on the iMode, but
>nowhere on the site itself, on CNN's main site, or on the iMode iMenu
>did I see any information about this fee. Does this mean that we can
>only read the headlines themselves, but have to pay to read the
>stories?
Received on Tue Jul 4 08:26:30 2000