Flat-Rate Data Plan Saved 10,000 Euro
WWJ Editors, 28 Feb. 2007
We noted an interesting post on a local mobile developer's site, which points out out how much money their flat-rate data plan saved the company in January. According to the scanned statement of the DoCoMo bill; "By using the pakehoudai option [a JPY 3,900 service plan option for unlimited usage of i-mode data traffic] you saved 1.67 million JPY this month." They calculated the data packets used total just over 1GB (that's hardcore -- Eds) which would have cost approx. 10,000 Euro under the regular per packet billing model. Yikes!
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