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fms	2009-06-16 , 13:54
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Originally Posted by attila77

Again, I suspect this falls under 'European thing' but nearly everybody I know texts to an extent. This includes my (retiree!) parents and first grader neighbour kids (toddler++) who I suspect text better than they write.

It does sound like some kind of insanity to me, really. It is easier to call, after all.

I believe you have misread something. The 4-5 RSD is the cost for 100KB (in US terms, a little over ~$1.3 for 1MB !). To add insult to injury, MTS's gprs/3g connections are notoriusly unreliable/slow, basically good for (small) emails but not much else.

I have no idea what RSD is, but 4.25 Russian roubles are equivalent to US$ 0.14 and this is the price per megabyte, not per 100kB. Also, MTS' GPRS is quite reliable, albeit sluggish. I use SSH via GPRS and it worked well enough all the way to Byelorussian border.

It's a vicious circle though - we have a very little % of smartphones (price sensitive market), so GPRS is not widely used (and 3G even less) so the providers have little incentive to upgrade data services which lowers demand for smartphones further, circle complete.

Way different here, with many smartphones and even more "feature phones". By the way, any decent JavaME phone will run Jimm (MIDP IM client) with no difficulty. It does not have to be a smartphone.

EDIT: Disclaimer: I'm not a MTS customer

I do not think it is the same MTS

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