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19-05-2008, 08:56 AM
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Originally Posted by dmw
i disagree
i think $1 for 10mb is a rip off.
just because it is cheaper than the other (rip off) merchants doesn't make it right.
if at&t can give unlimited data for $21 then aust carriers should be able to do much better than the equivalent of $100 a GB or $250 a GB in telstra's case. That's about 20 to 100 times more expensive than ADSL data. There is no justification for that.
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Not to mention I think we have the most expensive sms rates in the world..
AT&T raised it 5cents in March.. and its only just now at 20cent a text.
(It's getting closer to what we pay now, but still, we have been paying heaps more for years)
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19-05-2008, 09:09 AM
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Dead Bull gives you mince
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Australia is an absolute rip off when it comes to mobile and data charges. In our South African office users pay R1/MB (AU10c/MB) and their mobile call charges are the same. The charges for 3G and GPRS were identical.
What I fail to understand is why GPRS should be so ridiculously overpriced compared to 3G?
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19-05-2008, 09:11 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Because GPRS and EDGE are packet-switched data layers implemented over a circuit-switched voice network core. UMTS was designed from the ground up to be optimised for data.
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19-05-2008, 09:15 AM
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Dead Bull gives you mince
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Yeah, but the infrastructure is already there, whereas for 3G they had to build it, therefore 3G should have been more expensive because you were paying for the new equipment. What it looks like is that the GPRS users were paying for the 3G development costs and then not getting any rebates back on it now that the developments have been made.
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19-05-2008, 09:56 AM
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The Angels have the phone box
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Fake or real, you decide. Taken from a post on Whirlpool.
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19-05-2008, 10:10 AM
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MacTalk Podcaster
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Beyond fake.
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19-05-2008, 10:35 AM
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The Angels have the phone box
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Hm, probably is fake, but that red one does look very nice  |
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19-05-2008, 10:55 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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They look dead sexy...
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19-05-2008, 11:04 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Just like paris hilton sexy but fake
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19-05-2008, 11:15 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Originally Posted by The Fluffy Duck
Just like paris hilton sexy but fake
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Agree and would buy each colour
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19-05-2008, 11:53 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney
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Except for the black one, they look horrible. "Three Colors, Three Ways of Life"? WTF? What does that mean? I know it's supposed to be some marketing thingy, but that makes bugger all sense to me. =/
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19-05-2008, 11:56 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: back and forth between Sydney, Australia & Hiratsuka, Japan
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A hot pink one would be nice.
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19-05-2008, 12:45 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Originally Posted by MissionMan
Yeah, but the infrastructure is already there, whereas for 3G they had to build it, therefore 3G should have been more expensive because you were paying for the new equipment. What it looks like is that the GPRS users were paying for the 3G development costs and then not getting any rebates back on it now that the developments have been made.
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Or perhaps the cost to build and maintain both 3G and 2G infrastructure is shouldered by voice revenue and data is the cream on top? Fact is that it costs less per-kb to transmit data on 3G than it does on 2.5G. |
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19-05-2008, 12:48 PM
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Dead Bull gives you mince
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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I have no doubt about that, but Telstra used to charge $22/MB for GPRS which is ludicrous.
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19-05-2008, 01:26 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Originally Posted by Jolyon
Except for the black one, they look horrible. "Three Colors, Three Ways of Life"? WTF? What does that mean? I know it's supposed to be some marketing thingy, but that makes bugger all sense to me. =/
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White ---> trendy
Black ---> sexy
Red ---> Charity?
LOL
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