[ILUG] [OT} Mobile Phone/PDA

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Colm Buckley wrote:

> It is.  And a success which is *still* largely ignored by the U.S. industry. 
> Which is weird.

Well, not that weird when you consider that, firstly, there is no 
ubiqitious messaging standard in the US. GSM has gained a *lot* of 
ground over there, but there's still a few odd ball networks in 
operation, eg there's one weird non-GSM system over there which is 
quite popular, one of its main features is ability to 'click-to-talk' 
for free (like a walkie talkie over cellular networks), cant 
remember the name, but its weird. There seem to be proprietary, 
non-GSM SMS messaging services in operation too.

Secondly, their pricing plans can be a bit mad, particularly per-call 
charges for /received/ calls (and i guess for messages too) seems to 
be common. Which probably doesnt help.

What are popular over there are pagers. (presumably cause they dont 
have the interoperability problems of "cellphone" messaging).

> 	Colm

btw, isnt this OffT? ;)

regards,
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