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To: Tarken Winn who wrote (20389)	12/21/2000 2:15:20 PM
From: Tarken Winn	Respond to of 29987

imode vs G* round 2. Okay, that previous post covered the cost of sending email on the imode system. Now costs for accessing imode web sites. Example: snowadventures.co.nz [yes, advertising my own site!] 'Web' data is charged at 0.3 yen per 128 bytes. [ nttdocomo.co.jp ] So, running through the same calculations for this, we get about 2.8 yen per second for web data. [1.2 kilobytes per second/128 bytes0.3yen] That is 168 yen a minute or 10,125 yen an hour. MUCH more reasonable - now I can see why they have so many customers! It is only US$100 an hour rather than $500 for email. Great!! Maybe G hasn't got it wrong? I can't believe it, but people are throwing a LOT of money at data in Japan at the above rates. 16 million users in 18 months at the above prices! BUT THEY'RE ONLY CHARGING FOR DATA TRANSMITTED!! [Just in case anyone at G*USA is reading and is getting a little excited about raising the prices to US$150 an hour - after all, this IS 'above and beyond' cellular so surely customers will pay a premium!!] Alright, breakfast time... Tarken