I would say at the moment per byte charging is more attractive for certain
applications. Once people start downloading multimedia and other heavy
contents that is bound to change.
DoCoMo have already stated that they will re-think the packet charges in the
light of 3G and multimedia as it simply won't be worth DL`ing the content.
Conversely per minute charges can really dis-incent users from using certain
services.
At my company we carry out research of mobile users using mobile web surveys
and we find better co-operation rates due to packet charging which does not
penalise users for taking their time to carefully answer questions and
allows us to precisely calculate the burden to the respondent and compensate
appropriately. Whilst most fixed line users continue to pay exorbitant per
minute charges, the packet charges and "light" nature of the mobile Internet
are compelling reasons to use it.
Regards
Jamie Cattell
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Shuttleworth [mailto:aps@writemail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:37 AM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: is downloading java applets more expensive than
other content?
Andres Crosa wrote:
> believe that a substantial reduce in the cost of packets from DoCoMo
will come very soon.
What makes you think this? I was thinking the same thing. To browse the
web on a computer (desktop, laptop or handheld) using a mobile, it seems
to be much cheaper to pay by the minute than by the packet, although that
of course could change if want to look at one page for a long time etc. I
guess the packet pricing was made for i-mode as we know it now so perhaps
that is not surprising. The Casio press release for the E-707
http://www.casio.co.jp/English/productnews/e707.html mentions the 'DoCoMo
Value brand program of NTT DoCoMo'. I had a quick look but couldn't find
anything about this on the DoCoMo site. Anyone got any more details?
Andrew
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Received on Fri Jan 19 05:25:06 2001