Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:50
Opinion and Analysis
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Telstra has announced 2 million customers have signed up to the Next G
service, with 250,000 new connections a month, while dropping browsing
charges on when looking at the BigPond Mobile Home and Today tabs on
Next G mobile phones, but still charging for regular web access.
There’s nothing like a bit of competition in the marketplace to get all the major players moving in a downwards pricing direction, whether lowering costs to access mobile broadband, or lowering costs to access web services such as instant messaging through the mobile phone.
Services now free to browse on Next G handsets include “selected content such as news, weather, sports scores and much more”.
Telstra is characterising the removal of certain browsing charges for the use of certain pages on Telstra’s Next G online service, accessed directly on the mobile phone itself, as a bit of a Christmas pressie, saying that they’re ‘lighting up the mobile world this festive season’.
David Moffatt, the Consumer Marketing and Channels Group MD of Telstra, said in a media statement that: “The customer base is currently growing around 250,000 per month and in the last two months we have surpassed the two million mark”.
Moffatt continued that: “The removal of browsing charges from Thursday within the BigPond Mobile Home and Today tabs is great news Next G and [Telstra] 3G services. From today they can check news updates, get the weekend forecast, use the WhereIs map functionality, preview BigPond TV and Music, get sports scores and much more, as many times as they want, for no charge”.
Sp, what other changes have Telstra made to the browsing experience on Next G mobile phones, and what kind of in-phone browsing is still chargeable? Please read on to page 2 for the conclusion...
