I'm rather new to Japan's cell phone system (and cell phones in general),
but the major cell providers in Japan have capabilities which (I believe)
are similar to SMS. For example, I have an au phone... I can send a short
text message consisting of up to 100 single-byte characters (50 double-byte)
to any other au user... this is called Cmail. If I want to send a text
message to someone using another carrier, such as J-PHONE or DoCoMo, I have
to send an Email. Cmail are free to receive with au, Email are not (both
cost to send). J-PHONE and DoCoMo also have similar capabilities, though
I'm not sure about the cost structures.
Hope that helps.
- Lance
>From: "Marcela Christina Musgrove Ch." <marcela@cc.gatech.edu>
>Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>Subject: (keitai-l) SMS vs email?
>Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:29:12 -0400
>
>
>Hi there. Thanks to everyone who sent me suggestions for my project. I'm
>writing it up right now and had some lingering questions...
>
>When I got here, I thought the whole "thumb tribe" media referred to SMS,
>but I
>found out that SMS isn't available in Japan; it's actually emailing that
>people
>are referring to. I was hoping someone could tell me why SMS isn't
>available in
>Japan(just a simple standards difference?) and if you think there is (or
>have
>seen any studies that show) a real difference between the SMS experience
>and
>the emailing that I guess constitutes texting in Japan. (If I've got this
>understanding wrong, please correct me!)
>Thanks
>Marcela
>
>
>
>
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