Bennyfone
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For what it's worth, I was at the launch of the first European HSDPA network on Tuesday. It was on the Isle of Man, and Manx Telecom said they got near-full coverage with 30 base stations. Thing worked as advertised, with just over 1.3Mbps peak and an average of 400Kbps. Will be up to 10Mbps peak by 2008. They reckon that it'll need the introduction of an ancillary technology, HSUPA, for VoIP to make sense - but I think that's them trying to protect their voice revenue. Which they can't do: Skype works a treat. The CEO of France Telecom said last week that it was game over - voice is now free, so get used to it. Hm.
The interesting thing is the pricing, which has yet to be sorted out but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up with something like a gigabyte a month for fifty quid, with extra megabytes for around fifty pee.
Here's my report...
The interesting thing is the pricing, which has yet to be sorted out but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up with something like a gigabyte a month for fifty quid, with extra megabytes for around fifty pee.
Here's my report...
