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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (4341)	11/22/2001 7:59:59 AM
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BT Cellnet (UK) announce tariff plans for GPRS From Ben Wood of Mobile Streams At a recent briefing BT gave the first indication of their proposed tariffing structure for GPRS. Currently BT are offering a single promotional tariff for developers and early trialists of £15 (approx $22.50) per month including 50MB of data per month however they are about to offer a range of new "commercial" tariffs which are outlined below. BT Cellnet have defined a range of USER PROFILES and created BUNDLES to go with them: - Consumer WAP - 1MB of Data (Approx 1000 WAP screens) - PDA / 2 Way messaging - 5MB of Data (Approx 2000 Emails) - Laptop Average User - 10MB (Approx 1000 Emails + some attachments) - Laptop Power User – Bundles of 25MB / 50MB / 100MB of data It is anticipated that BT Cellnet will announce the pricing related to this structure shortly. BT Cellnet have also implemented service management controls to track down heavy users and the new tariffs will incorporate a contract with “overage” charges (i.e. the cost per MB when you exceed your bundle) and they will also define what they call “abuse” levels at which point customers will be disconnected. When discussing tariffing over the last few months, BT Cellnet have put forward a variety of tariffing options but have not been prepared to commit to the solution they are going to adopt, however from the outline above it would appear they will be going for a bundled approach. The options previous discussed include: - Usage – on a per MB basis - Time of Day rates banded into various categories e.g. Day / Evening / Night - Bundles of data – e.g. 10MB, 25MB, 50MB bundles per month - Large order discounts - Pool contracts In addition to this, BT Cellnet plan to offer some discounts for bulk buying by corporate accounts. For Corporate / Large Customers wishing to connect their host systems to the BT Cellnet GPRS network the following tariffing has been presented: BT Cellnet currently offer a leased line via their Cellnet Link 60 package. This offers Voice & Data combined service connecting to GPRS Network at a cost of £7K (approx US$10.5K) per annum for a new installation and £2K (approx US$3.5K) per annum for an upgraded connection to an existing leased line. Companies that already have an existing IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) can upgrade their connection to link to the GPRS Network for £2K (approx US$3.5K) per annum. It should be noted that this excludes Internet access and CPE. For customers that set up their own link to the network there is a charge of £2K (approx US$3.5K) per annum for each APN. For dedicated GPRS Data Link services based on leased line within 200 km of a BT PoP (which covers most of the UK apart from the depths of Cornwall etc.) the cost is based on the bandwidth required as follows: 128Kbps - £5K (approx US$7.5K) 256 Kbps - £6K (approx US$9K) 512 Kbps - £7K (approx US$10.5K) 2MBps - £10K (approx US$15K)

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