On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Petri Helenius wrote: > The mobile ip address demand is not going to be too great when > a megabyte in most countries costs $10 to $20 to move around.
Over here the monopoly Telcom charges approx $US 0.50 per Megabyte see: http://www.telecom.co.nz/content/0,3900,202032-200509,00.html ($1NZ =~ $US 0.60) which possibly almost makes it cheaper today to sit on ICQ than to get/send SMS messages all day long ( do instant message protocols have low bandwidth/compressed data options?). I'm not sure how easy it is for a phone provider to NAT thousands/millions of people at once onto ICQ, especially when they would prefer to charge the same people 10 cents per SMS message. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ihug Ltd, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz
