Re: South Korea: Youth's Suicide Prompts Mobile Phone Bill Li mits

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I mean, if my kid did that, he wouldn't have to wrry about suicide;
I'd kill him myself. ;-)

- ferg


-- "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:

I think this is why the 'business plan' (for lack of a better term)
that the cell-coms have now -- shoving services down the throats of
cell phone subscribers -- will have a major backlash, and is not a
sustainable busines plan in, and of, itself -- they charges for
these 'enhanced services' are excessive.

Via The International Herald-Tribune.

[snip]

South Korean mobile phone companies said Monday that they were offering new calling plans after a 16-year-old boy in 
Iksan killed himself because of a huge phone bill.

He committed suicide on Feb. 15 after receiving a bill for about 3.7 million won, or $3,800, in data charges for 
playing games on his mobile phone, the police in Iksan said.

In response, mobile phone operators said they would create billing plans allowing for unlimited data use at a 
reasonable cost. SK Telecom, South Korea's leading mobile phone company, said it would offer an unlimited data plan for 
30,000 won a month. KTF said it would cap the data costs at 26,000 won.

[snip]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/27/business/techbrief.php

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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