There is no mention of the cost to the retailer for using the mobile.
I have just been reading about a $85,000 mobile phone bill charged for downloading data in the outback of Canada.
Any voucher repayment on just a packet of crisps is likely to turn negative.
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Put simply, what is the compelling reason to pay ~$200 extra for an Eee with Windows XP? A Windows Eee won't come with any useful applications and you'll have to buy anti-virus software to boot. The truth about low cost computing is that nobody really cares whether the machine is running Windows or Linux as long as its cheap, its easy to use and it works.
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