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Jan 15 3:59 PM EST

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To: slacker711 who wrote (85347)	11/1/2000 6:56:29 AM
From: Lance Bredvold	Read Replies (1) of 152472

<<This is incredabally low....the average MP3 would cost about 75 cents to download. Am I missing something?>> Slacker; My belief is that your figures are correct based upon the data as offered. I gather an MP3 contains about 6 megabytes of information which I cannot confirm, but indeed that many bytes should cost $.75 approximately from the figures given. What does seem distorted to me is your assumption that this figure is incredibly low. I have been on my 56K modem for less than an hour and have downloaded over 2 megabytes so far. I probably download 600 megabytes a month and send another 10% of that. Yet I pay only $40 for telephone and ISP charges while at $.15 per kilobyte I should pay $99 in the ideal future. But the article says this is 1% of what it costs now, so I theoretically should be charged $9,900 per month? Some time ago a Nortel executive got himself quoted saying something like the current wireless megabyte costs $.38 and we are aiming to get that down to $.04. I don't know whether he was talking user price, full costs to the utility, or what. But that would confirm generally the $.15 you have derived. And it would suggest that the charge for Japanese packets on iMode is incredibly high, IMO rather than that the future cost is incredibly low. Leap Wireless is already providing the equivalent of landline connections for $30.00 per month. So wireless should be getting pretty close to competitive with my current costs. Lance

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