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Cartefone for wireless?

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

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  • Tim Wu

    2 years ago

    Thanks for the shout-out -- but the presentation is on Wednesday, not tomorrow!

    tw
  • Jamie

    2 years ago

    I live in New Zealand, and we've only really got 2 cellular networks - Vodafone and Telecom NZ. The prices we pay aren't going to rival landlines, but they're not too bad either.




    I'm using a Vodafone "You Choose" plan. This gives me 20 anytime minutes per month for $NZ 19.95. I can then bolt on additional packages, such as off-peak minutes and text messaging, for an additional fee per month.





    See the following sites for cellular pricing:


    Vodafone


    Telecom NZ





    Note: $NZ 1.00 is roughly $US 0.70 at the moment.

  • Richard Bennett

    2 years ago

    It's official: Tim Wu is a communist.

    Seriously, however, the net neutrality activists who over-sold their cause so egregiously in the last session of Congress seem to feel compelled to over-sell the over-sold fears by taking it into areas where they don't have a shred of a case. The "Save The Internet" coalition funded by Google (by way of Moveon) is now demanding free broadband for everybody, and here we have Prof. Wu, who actually should know better, taking on the highly-competitive cell phone market.

    I suppose this indicates that it's even easier to commit adultery the second time.
  • fprefect

    2 years ago

    It's true that in Europe phones are generally more expensive, but I would say this is canceled out by the fact that plans are better than what you get in the US (and you're not stuck in a contract either.) Also, you can get cutting-edge phones in Europe long before their US release, because the manufacturers aren't dependent on getting a contract with one carrier or another to have their phones sold (and of course, phones aren't locked down either.)
  • David Sickmiller

    2 years ago

    You wrote: "You can always buy an unlocked phone for a premium."

    If Tim Wu's paper is correct, most of the major wireless carriers will not let you use that unlocked phone on their networks.

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