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So £3 per MB and not £7.50, and only where there's a T network in the country you're visiting, again, it's baby steps, I still want to see all the networks regard their foreign counterparts are home networks to all it's visiting subs. There's more money to be made! Get it?!


T-Mobile has cut by more than half charges for business customers who transmit data over its mobile networks in countries where it operates its own network.

Sending and receiving data over a T-Mobile network would now cost £3 per megabyte of data transmitted instead of £7.50, the firm said in a statement.

Business travellers in Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and the UK get the cut, it said.

In the small print, the firm said "Officelink customers, customers using BlackBerry e-mail or Sidekick devices" would not get the price cut.

Max Miller, head of carrier services at T-Mobile, said that the price cuts had been possible because of the volume of data it was handling across its own networks, but refused to say how much that was.

Its own country operations had negotiated the price cuts among one another and it was now talking to other carriers to get reductions for business travellers outside of T-Mobile's footprint.

The firm said in the statement that it planned to make similar reductions for consumers.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/15/tmobile_cut/

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............... There's more money to be made! Get it?!


Unfortunately the mobile network operators of today simply do not "get it". The one great hope of a new entrant into the market took an even more negative view of Data over Mobile. And so the situation persists whereby Data is considered a Premium service, attracts a Premium charge, and thereby has a correspondingly low number of Premium customers.

The networks have not yet quite understood that they could mass market Mobile Data if only the commoditised it and priced it accordingly. Of course they'd have to reduce the Data bill to their Corporate customers, and see a huge decrease in revenue from those. But, and this is the important bit, they'd be in a position to sell data to their retail customer base that would make their Corporate income seem chicken feed by comparison. There are, simply put, vastly more private individuals who could be using data for all sorts of purposes, if the price were right.

T-Mobile took a step in the right direction with their Web N Walk and its successors Plus and Max. Much more needs be done - and an aggressively priced PAYT data rate and add-on bundles would not go amiss!

Anyone out there in charge of the networks and with the balls to go do this?

*silence, feint wind, tumbleweed*