Comments on: Vodafone To Allow Content Providers To Absorb Data Traffic Costs http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/02/vodafone-to-allow-content-providers-to-absorb-data-traffic-costs/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: alan jones http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/02/vodafone-to-allow-content-providers-to-absorb-data-traffic-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-1913 alan jones Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:55:19 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/02/vodafone-to-allow-content-providers-to-absorb-data-traffic-costs/#comment-1913 I couldn't get trackback working for some reason, but in my <a href rel="nofollow">post</a> today on bluepulseblog, I suggest that maybe this new option just disguises that the content is not good enough. If consumers find the content/service good enough, they'll find a way to pay for it themselves - good content doesn't need to be free. Very hard for a content publisher to later charge for what they've been giving away for free. I couldn’t get trackback working for some reason, but in my post today on bluepulseblog, I suggest that maybe this new option just disguises that the content is not good enough. If consumers find the content/service good enough, they’ll find a way to pay for it themselves – good content doesn’t need to be free. Very hard for a content publisher to later charge for what they’ve been giving away for free.

]]> By: Justin Oberman http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/02/vodafone-to-allow-content-providers-to-absorb-data-traffic-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-1713 Justin Oberman Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:05:23 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/02/vodafone-to-allow-content-providers-to-absorb-data-traffic-costs/#comment-1713 From http://www.mopocket.com/2006/02/a_good_idea_letting_content_pr.php While I would like to see an implementation of such a policy by the carriers here in the United States, it still has a barrier in terms of SMS. Some of these services are either SMS related or are delivered by means of SMS and, to remind my European collages, here in the U.S we still pay to receive text messages. So,what I would also like to see, at least here in the U.S, is the same kind of business plan for SMS... where people do not have to pay to receive an SMS from a content provider, service or marketer. Such a thing would only be a boon for an industry that a lot of people don't want to take part of because of the extra costs and would probably help the innovation of SMS technologies and services here in the United States. From http://www.mopocket.com/2006/02/a_good_idea_letting_content_pr.php

While I would like to see an implementation of such a policy by the carriers here in the United States, it still has a barrier in terms of SMS. Some of these services are either SMS related or are delivered by means of SMS and, to remind my European collages, here in the U.S we still pay to receive text messages. So,what I would also like to see, at least here in the U.S, is the same kind of business plan for SMS… where people do not have to pay to receive an SMS from a content provider, service or marketer. Such a thing would only be a boon for an industry that a lot of people don’t want to take part of because of the extra costs and would probably help the innovation of SMS technologies and services here in the United States.

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