Comments on: Data Calling Plans

By: mick angel

mick angel — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:24:10 +0000

wouldn’t the smarter people simply put a proxy site onto the ‘friends and family’ list of sites?

putting skweeer on the list for instance?

By: alan jones

alan jones — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:30:26 +0000

Great idea! I was looking at the new Widsets client today, which has a really neat menu which shows you data consumption so far, per widget. I was thinking, ‘great, but i have no idea what my network is charging me per Kb because of their complex pricing, this only tells me half of what i need to know”.

Allowing customers to build their own list of free content could also help the carrier learn more about what content is actually of interest to their customers, helping them strike better content distribution deals with content publishers. That might drive costs per Kb for content down overall, while driving revenue up, as carriers sign up the content that really works for their deck, versus the content which has been most aggressively pitched to them.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:46:56 +0000

Vodafone in the UK are giving away free access to their web sites (live!) and are now providing a wholesale service to some partners (only MoS so far) that allow the partner to provide free data to their customers. A small step towards what your describing.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:55:26 +0000

An interesting idea! It could be coupledt with a web interface were people can register their 10 sites they want to check out from their mobile and let the network then filter this content. That way everyone is sure you don’t something you aren’t aware of that you have to pay for later. Personally I prefer the T-mobile web’n walk approach or the 25 Euros for 1 GB of traffic Wind in Italy is doing with prepaid cards (without any restrictions what you can and can’t do). I like the 10 prefered sites idea because that could get people started for a reasonable price.
Martin

By: Ewan

Ewan — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:30:56 +0000

Annoying Three in the UK allows you to pay a few quid a month and get ‘unlimited browsing’ to their predfined (and rather limited) list of mobile websites.

However, T-mobile UK is offering unlimited data for ¬£7.50 VAT per month. I’m absolutely loving it at the moment. I think I sent about 200 meg yesterday alone

By: zak1000

zak1000 — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:10:30 +0000

top idea and I know it would certainly push a lot of my tight friends and colleagues to expand beyond their initial “circle” once they’d enjoyed the benefits for a month or two.