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Story: Hot spot pricing 'should be halved'

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Posted by: Arthur B. (Monday 11 September 2006, 10:49 PM)

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In the Netherlands it's possible to get flat-fee unlimited Internet access with your mobile for under EUR 10 per month but at GPRS speed. At UMTS or HSDPA speed flat-fee unlimited Internet access with your mobile (laptop) would cost between EUR 40 and EUR 60 a month but you can't get high-speed everywhere just yet.

Who needs HotSpots if you can get unlimited flat-fee mobile (laptop) Internet access everywhere? Possibly your company won't and thus save a bundle (also security risk wise).

That said, international mobile Internet data traffic will still kill your budget very very quickly. And without notice some have discovered (especially those that travel close to national borders or overbroad).

As such it would help if all Mobiles would come with free software that would automaticaly demand manual user intervention to establish (data)communications over a foreign network each and every time.

It would even be better if flat-fee unlimited Internet access with your mobile would be possible EU, or even Region 1, or even completely world, wide.
But who cares for the Lisbon Act anyway.

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