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Hold It Till You Get Home (or Hotel)
If you get email like I do with serious attachments this is just a stupid price level. £6-10 for a small file attachment is obscene. P*** off. I am not so important I can't wait till I get home, to a WiFi Hot Spot, Internet cafe or even pay the Hotel's expensive but nothing like so bad "all you can eat" WiFi fee.
Whover is pricing this is gouging stupid enterprises whose users don't pay the bill and skimming the rich who pay their own.
It certainly won't get roaming Multimedia started much beyond the first bill anyway.
I can but won't use my GPRS connection at UK rates of £1 per MB - which is still obscene. I have tried my free 1MB allowance and it works fine over a Bluetooth link to the mobile, really wire-less.
But I have 8MB all you can eat real broadband at home for free from TalkTalk Businesss, thanks, its only £10-15 pm from others for 30 day's effectively unlimited data delivered at high bandwidths - well above GPRS rates.
It would appear while Telcos say they want to us to use mobile data services out of one corner of their mouths they are stopping us with extreme tariffs out of the other corner, home and away.
What's that about then?
Brian
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