Along these lines, how do we know when we are being charged for these
services? I've seen sites with the Yen icon which lead to signup
pages where we can enter a PIN and authorize charges. This I can
understand. However, can any DoCoMo partners (or other sites for that
matter) charge us simply for following links? I don't see any
itemization for this on my NTT bill. What if the site simply buries
the charge info somewhere on their site? I'm pretty sure I've been
charged for a lot of stuff that I just happened to glance at when
surfing around.
> 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/0,7407,259793
5,00.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 11:29:41 2000