<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Giles, you're complaining? try 30$/MB up here in canada. <br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Giles Jones <giles.jones@zen.co.uk><br>To: community <community@lists.openmoko.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 5:51:34 PM<br>Subject: Re: What's the real scope of hardware openness?<br><br><div><br>On 7 Aug 2007, at 22:34, Robin Paulson wrote:<br><br>><br>> i for one was interested in what luca had to say, the discussion that<br>> evolved, and i've learned something because of it<br><br>The idea was a good one, but not feasible at this time and not with <br>Moko hardware. The Neo1973 is an open
device but it can't defy physics.<br>><br>> and anyway, the telcos are bastards, are screwing us and many would<br>> agree with luca's sentiments. i found out last week that i get charged<br>> NZ$10/MB (about $8US) for GPRS data - that's not justified, and isn't<br>> customer oriented, it's money-grabbing<br>><br><br>True, plus their plans don't make sense. SMS messages cost a fortune <br>for 160 bytes.<br><br>But hey, they're a business and businesses are all about making <br>money. Competition is what drives down costs usually.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list<br>community@lists.openmoko.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community">http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</a><br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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