Speaking of switching to charges, does anyonoe know if there are
any services doing trial periods before charging. ie. a lot
of these services want 100-300 yen from you to even see their
service in action and before you can really say if you like
it or not. Some people don't bother checking it out because of
this and you lose potential customers.
If your service is really crap, ie people sign up and then
sign off, then this is a good thing for the services but a bad
thing for the customers. For the good services out there,
wouldn't it be good to get say a 3-7 day preview
usage/trail period to see if you actually like the service
before you signed up for charges.
I know that in some cases, the service was initially free,
ie like CNN, but then changed to a charged service, but this
is really a different thing. I wanna be able to preview any
service :-)
Anyone know if DoCoMo can do this for you or not?
Tom.
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:30:02PM +0900, daniel dolan wrote:
> 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?
>
>
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Thomas O'Dowd
tom@uwillsee.com
Received on Tue Jul 4 09:01:17 2000