(keitai-l) Re: Saturation reached? Keitai shops close...

Nick,

When you say prepay, you are not referring to a system where you go buy a
phone with a fixed about of usage on it?  Please explain.  There is
something like this in the US where you basically buy a credit of $X and get
a free mobile phone with it.  Like a calling card with a phone attached.

-c

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick May" <nick@kyushu.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:38 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Saturation reached? Keitai shops close...


> keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
> >it hasn't fully penetrated by
> >implementing more prepay, focusing on the guys in the Silver-Seats
amongst
> >others.
>
> Prepay really is the key. In the UK, my mother's kids (all 6 of them, it's
> a long story) all have basic prepay keitai, even the 7 year old. Yet the
> family as a whole is very low tech - they do not even have a functional
> internet connection, and very non-indulgent to the technological whims of
> kids.
>
> Prepay really has not been pushed here like it has in the UK. There is
> still a LONG way to go.
>
> Talking of prepay - did anyone hear what happened to those "paper keitai"
> that were being developed in the US?
>
> Nick
>
> <offtopic> Anyone who knows where google and the like would look for meta
> tags in a site full of dynamic virtual-framesets, could they possibly drop
> me a line, I have a question that is not really keitai oriented</offtopic>
>
>
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