(keitai-l) Re: Subsidising handsets

From: Mika Tuupola <tuupola_at_appelsiini.net>
Date: 07/30/01
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10107301002340.661-100000@aurinko.taivas.com>
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Benedict Evans wrote:

> Actually, there are no material handset subsidies in Finland - nor in Italy, 
> which has 80% penetration (if you include all the pre-pay stuff). Nor in 
> Belgium, but no-one cares about Belgium ;)

	I'm not quite sure what you mean by "material subsidies", but	
	operators do pay money to handset sellers everytime the phone
	was sold with theirs (operators) subscription. I'm of course
	talking about Finland in here :)


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