Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL | We will need free incoming texts + free data zones for this
We will need free incoming texts + free data zones for this to work in the us. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | if companies were smart here they'd already be doing this. The ads allow the customers to get free minutes and texts. Which to some could be a huge trade off. |
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Smith6612
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join:2008-02-01
united state | My free minutes come on the weekends. |
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voipdabbler
join:2006-04-27
Kalispell, MT
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EU developments to watch
It will be interesting to see how long this model can be sustained if the EU does allow cellular carriers there to charge for all incoming voice and data, following the US model. With the recent public comments that EU regulators may allow their carriers to follow the US model to avoid raising fees again, this type of ad-driven model will become more expensive. Whether the new fees may kill it, who knows? It will depend how much they eat in to profit margins. Plainly, if it's too great the restructuring of EU cellular billing may make a totally-free service untenable there. |
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gomer1701ems
join:2001-08-23
Minneapolis, MN | reply to Smith6612
Re: We will need free incoming texts + free data zones for this
And after 9 PM, for some folks. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
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1 edit | your phones may do that but Virgin Mobile here does not do that. I know a lot of parents that would give these phones to their kids just to stay in contact with them without buying minutes all the time or putting them on their contract plans.
This would take off in the US even though you think it wouldnt.
Edit Add: UK is not a pro-credit country. They enjoy their prepaid services and not having a credit check for everything they do. A good amount of their cell phone companies pride themselves on Prepaid and its their major choice over there. |
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