Can you believe this (from Unstrung)?
British Telecom (BT) (NYSE: BTY - message board) today named its public WLAN service "Openzone" (see BT Opens Hotspots) and identified the sites to be used for the final tests before the commercial service goes live on August 1. Right: That's the dull bit over with.
Far more interesting are the "indicative" prices -- and hold onto your britches, 'cuz they're dynamite!! Unlimited use is going to come in at "less than" £95 (plus 17.5 percent sales tax) per month per user. That's £1,140 a year, which at today's exchange rates is US$1,710 before tax is added. And we know it says "less than," but that means by a few pence or so.
Geez...I knew that the carriers would try to avoid paying the steep 3G license cost, but that's not working. And I knew that they would cringe at putting in a new "forklift upgrade" to GSM (duh - who's idea was this??) in the form of UMTS base stations...but trying to KILL 802.11x with pricing? What will they think of next??
In a very interesting PDAmeetsSmartPhone check out this new Kyocera 7135 (not on their web site) in the latest Forbes article on PDAs...this looks remarkably like the new Treo that Stewart Alsop showed me during the BREW conference...
British Telecom (BT) (NYSE: BTY - message board) today named its public WLAN service "Openzone" (see BT Opens Hotspots) and identified the sites to be used for the final tests before the commercial service goes live on August 1. Right: That's the dull bit over with.
Far more interesting are the "indicative" prices -- and hold onto your britches, 'cuz they're dynamite!! Unlimited use is going to come in at "less than" £95 (plus 17.5 percent sales tax) per month per user. That's £1,140 a year, which at today's exchange rates is US$1,710 before tax is added. And we know it says "less than," but that means by a few pence or so.
Geez...I knew that the carriers would try to avoid paying the steep 3G license cost, but that's not working. And I knew that they would cringe at putting in a new "forklift upgrade" to GSM (duh - who's idea was this??) in the form of UMTS base stations...but trying to KILL 802.11x with pricing? What will they think of next??
In a very interesting PDAmeetsSmartPhone check out this new Kyocera 7135 (not on their web site) in the latest Forbes article on PDAs...this looks remarkably like the new Treo that Stewart Alsop showed me during the BREW conference...
posted by Spasssmeister at 10:37 AM
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