Usage of Cmail disappeared? I use it instead of Email whenever I can, since
it saves the receiver money.
- Lance
>From: Stuart Woodward <stuart@gol.com>
>Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>Subject: (keitai-l) Re: SMS vs email?
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:32:08 +0900
>
>
>
>On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:29:12 -0400
>"Marcela Christina Musgrove Ch." <marcela@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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!)
>
>SMS is available. e.g on Au it is called CMail but since when real email
>was introduced it's usage almost disapeared over night. It's only usage
>now is for messages from the telephone system e.g to tell you you have a
>message waiting on the answer phone service.
>
>A more interesting question, for me, is why is email not available in
>Europe and else where?
>
>
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Received on Wed Jul 30 05:38:38 2003