On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Marc Printz wrote:
> ...why telcos should
> give away a service [voice] for free that is still and will ever be
> the main interest/value for people carrying keitai.
Are you sure about this? Certainly my main interest is data; I use my
keitai much more for e-mail than for voice. I wouldn't be surprised if
this was true for some nihonjin as well.
> The other issue is that
> voice calls will then be usable for free low-bandwidth data,
> too (similar to covert channel), so there'll be interesting
> new business models exploiting this?
I doubt it. First you'd have to build something capable of modulating a
data signal over that voice channel, and it's not likely the phone
manufacturers are going to do this! And I doubt even a Telebit
Trailblazer could get more than a few hundred bps over that crappy
Docomo voice channel. When you've got cheap hundred-kilobit access,
free hundred-bit access doesn't really look all that great, does it?
Still, given that bandwith being used for voice is bandwith you could
otherwise use for data, I can't see why they'd make voice free. If voice
usage goes down, it just gives them more data capacity to sell.
cjs
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Received on Wed Aug 8 10:13:19 2001