Is This the Lowest Data Plan in the World?
Remember when the European Union slashed mobile data rates? Check out Steve litchfield's personal experience:
But, come a few spare minutes, I thought I'd experiment and put the new tariff (£1 cap per day, £2/MB, up to 15MB) to the test. Hammering the Web and some downloads, I slammed 10MB through my Nokia N95 in about 20 minutes. Checking my credit afterwards, it had indeed gone down by only £1. I'm impressed.
Let's take stock for a moment. That's £1 for 15MB, effectively, on a single day, or around 7 pence per Megabyte, compared to £7.30/MB, a hundredfold decrease in charges. In fact, impressed is something of an understatement.
Understandably, Steve is impressed. But I can imagine his jaw dropping even more if he finds out how much people in the Philippines pay for true unlimited for fast mobile connectivity.
Local Telco Globe for instance charges Php 2,000/month for its Visibility HSDPA service. That's only around £21 for unlimited access for the entire month! And at speeds over 1Mbps to boot. No per unit costs, no limitations.
Ah, the beauty of living in a so-called third world country. While third-world infrastructure can't compare to the first-world, the really low third-world costs are almost impossible for more developed countries to beat.
parambyte
August 7th, 2007 at 8:09 am #
the lowest data plan is perhaps offered by Airtel India, in the city of Pune. I was paying Rs 5.00 a day (billed daily) on an unlimited data plan over EDGE. that worked out to Rs 150 a month or UK Pounds 1.77 a month for unlimited edge data access. Now I have moved to mumbai and its lighlty higher at UK Pounds 2.47 per month for unlimited edge data access. i use a nokia e61. and from macandmobile.com figured out how to connect to the net on my Powerbook!
parambyte
August 7th, 2007 at 8:12 am #
MicroCalc is a free spreadsheet implemented in J2ME (Java 2 Mobile Edition) compatible with S60 devices.
A spreadsheet is a rectangular grid of information, often financial information, usually used to processing payroll and other financial records.
With MicroCalc you can do your spreadsheet jobs using your S60 phone.
The short list of MicroCalc features is:
• Decimal math support
• Trigonometric functions
• Datetime data type
• Data export into SYLK format
• Server-side sheets storage
To install the application you can use your WAP browser in the phone pointing to http://wapindustrial.com/microcalc/download.wml and select package to install, or installing it from PC via cable, IR or a bluetooth connection.
MicroCalc interface is similar to the desktop spreadsheet software such as MS Excel, with certain limitations regarding small screen size of handheld devices and general limitations in available resources, such as heap memory size (this limits the amount of data that can be placed on a sheet), and application code size.