In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>> In response to Mike's post...
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>> I know exactly where you're coming from and you are right a web based
>> solution is the simplest and would be the fastest to develop and
>> rollout etc. but..
>>
>> The cost is in the data, in the uk you get charged for the amount of
>> data you send/receive by GPRS and this data you are paying for would
>> ideally be useful data and not the HTML to present it.
>
>I'll take your word for it that you don't have GPRS providers in the
>UK that have an all-you-can eat plan. They all do in the US.
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Also, in at least some parts of Europe, carriers nominally charge
for the Web, but it's possible to browse effectively--to reach
nearly all the same pages--with an alternative protocol to "http:"
(the list of which I've now utterly, if perhaps temporarily,
forgotten).
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