Today I received a shocking invoice from my GSM provider. For a data transfer volume of about 20 MB (basically checking e-mail over a month) they charged me a whopping 674 Euros (that would be 811 US Dollars), which almost all of it being GPRS roaming fees from various Italian, French and Spanish providers. Seems to me that due to a highly competitive market, GSM providers can't make much money from the basic telephony service anymore. Their solution? Rip off roaming GPRS customers. Shame on them!
[Note to self: ample business opportunities for WiFi hotspot operators along the spanish, french and italian mediterranean coast!]
Posted by guenter at September 8, 2004 12:28 PM