>
>Economically, it is very hard to justify the expense of international
>bandwidth just for a handful of users. Also, even though DoCoMo
>generates revenue on every bit of traffic, including those going to
>unofficial sites, their margins for international i-mode traffic would
>be dramatically reduced (if they get margins at all from it) by their
>provision of the international link.
>
I don't understand why "international" access should be noticably more
expensive
than "local" access, if the user is accessing the Internet. If it is a
handful of users, than
the bandwidth should be neglible. If it is traffic for keitai, then the
amount of data
is going to be a lot smaller than typically seen with desktop browsers, so
it must
be the case that getting a dedicated line for Internet traffic is
terrifically expensive
in Hong Kong? Is this high price reflected in the price for home users to get
a subscription to an ISP for Internet access?
It seems like a big telecom carrier could get Internet service cheaper than
anyone else.
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Received on Tue Jul 3 10:41:31 2001