At 19:40 2000-12-04 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Zimran Ahmed wrote:
>
> > I've recently been in correspondence with Andrew Odlyzko, a research
> > scientist at AT&T Research. He has published a large and well researched
> > paper on how pricing has historically influenced usage of communication
> > technology. In particular, he says that:
> > >Flat rates are the simplest form of pricing. Although they have
>
> Interestingly Sonera in Finland is opening their gprs
> network for public this month. The initial pricing will be
> flat rate 99 fim per month (99 FIM = 1641.74 JPY, 14.83 USD).
> Although AFAIK the reason is not clever pricing but their
> inability to do billing per packet basis.
In Sweden Europoliatn has just launched. Somewhat confliciting pricing,
mixing megabytes and minutes. Either $30 fixed (until April, the additional
$2 per megabyte (?)) or $14 per megabyte.
/g
> (as a side note. I am personally confident they still havent
> learnt anything from the WAP incident and will have ridiculously
> high packet prices dropping out most of the possible users.)
>
>--
>Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
>
>
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Received on Mon Dec 4 20:04:41 2000