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Phone, internet, etc. - Otherwise, I'm not sure... I've only had one pre-paid phone.
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Posted: 2004-10-08 21:20:28
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Residentevil Posts: > 500
Have not had a prepaid phone so far.
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Posted: 2004-10-08 21:53:28
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@richy240 & Residentevil
Do either of you text much?
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Posted: 2004-10-11 11:05:25
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Yeah, I use it but not for important things... I want verbal confirmation for some stuff. I can't rely on my friends and family to check their SMS; as I said before, people just don't use it all that much here.
I often send contacts via SMS. I like this feature because they load right into the contacts database without a lot of copying and pasting. I also use them to send "thinking of you" messages to my GF and "kiss my ass" messages to my friends, which are pretty much the same messages now that I think about it, just worded differently. (No, I'm not gay - although it may sound like it based on that last sentence. Shut up, you do it too.)
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Posted: 2004-10-11 15:25:45
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guys,
the point u made about pay as you go is very interesting. because they say in the more mature markets of asia and europe.. payg has about 70-80 % of marketshare. because payg is what most people i know here use. and mobile phones started getting more and more popular with the use of payg cards. because its affordable and u can have a control of mobile bills.
do u have any idea what percentage of prepaid and postpaid customers are in the U.S?
another issue would be the caller party pays feature i.e incoming calls being free. is it true that on some rateplans u have to pay for incoming calls?
apart from standardization (which in itself plays a huge role) i feel these issues need to be addressed as well.
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Posted: 2004-10-11 19:28:49
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I imagine (and I have no proof to back this up) about 60 - 70% of American users (or more) are post-paid customers (NOT pay as you go). If anyone knows the real figures, please post them.
Caller-pays is not standard practice here. If there are long-distance charges involved the caller pays those, but otherwise minutes are minutes. It doesn't matter who is calling who, you are spending precious minutes every time you are on the phone.
But the post-paid plans are so affordable, you can get a shit load of minutes pretty easily. I pay 40.00 USD for 1,000 "anytime" minutes, unlimited nights (9pm - 6:59am) and weekends, and no long distance or roaming. Plus 5.00 for unlimited data and 7.00 for unlimited mobile-to-mobile (m2m; inside the T-Mobile network - most people I call are in this category, so it is worth it for me to pay for this feature). And because I have the m2m minutes, I rarely ever come close to my 1,000 minutes.
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Posted: 2004-10-11 21:26:00
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It appears that SMS services are becoming more wisespread... I came across this site this morning:
http://sms.google.com
We can now use this service to find restaurants, phone numbers and other information via SMS.
Also, I was watching television last night and realized that I was wrong about SMS services such as contests and other television based SMS programs being locked to a provider. I was under that impression because they use these contests as a way to advertise a specific provider... The commercials say something to the effect of 'Send a text message to 12345 from your Cigular or other mobile handset'. I never notices they said "or other". My mistake.
But it appears SMS is catching on more and more. I wish we could pay for things with our mobiles, but that is far off as I see it.
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Posted: 2004-10-12 15:22:27
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I think the current figures are just over two billion texts a month in the UK; texting has really caught on here.
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Posted: 2004-10-13 22:56:36
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That's a lot of text messages. I don't think we're anywhere near that here.
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Posted: 2004-10-19 23:06:33
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Not only you have to pay for the incoming calls, but you also have to pay for the incoming SMS. I guess that was another reason hindering the acceptance of texting here in the US.
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Posted: 2004-10-20 00:03:56
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