What do you know about XING?
William Volk
> From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol@eurotechnology.com>
> Organization: www.eurotechnology.com
> Reply-To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:28:20 +0900
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: SMS vs mobile email
>
> William Volk wrote:
>> Gerhard Fasol wrote:
>> My understanding, and correct me if I am wrong, is that the revenue for
>> services in Japan (mobile browser based) is derived from data charges?
>> Is this correct???
>
> Yes and no. The revenue of mobile operators in Japan is a
> mixture of many sources including the sale of mobile phones,
> voice, data charges transactions etc.
>
> However, strategically all traffic related charges are
> evaporating like snow in the sunshine, and for this reason
> operators in Japan invest heavily to develop other non-traffice
> related income. You can find this explained in detail in our
> mobile payment report:
> http://www.eurotechnology.com/store/mobilepayment/
> in our company's newsletters and in our blog:
> http://www.eurotechnology.com/blog/
>
>> Is there a billing mechanism for mobile email (similar to P-SMS)
>> as well? I wasn't aware of one.
>
> Yes it exists, but it's different to P-SMS. There is no P-SMS in
> Japan. You'll find this explained in many places including
> DoCoMo's websites and our i-mode report:
> http://www.eurotechnology.com/store/imode/
>
>
> Gerhard
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Received on Thu Dec 1 02:27:21 2005