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German ISP 1&1 Internet has expanded its mobile internet portfolio with two mobile data flat rates, complementing its Pocket Web tariffs. The 1&1 Mobile Internet tariff offers unlimited mobile internet access via GPRS/EDGE for EUR 9.99 per month, while calling costs EUR 0.29 per minute within Germany. The 1&1 Mobile Internet & Phone includes free mobile internet use plus free calls to German fixed networks and 1&1 mobile customers for EUR 29.99 per month. Calls to other German mobile numbers cost EUR 0.19 per minute. At the same time, 1&1 launched two Windows Mobile enabled phones: the HTC S710 for EUR 49.99 and the Motorola Moto Q9 for EUR 99.99. As introduction offer, 1&1 offers 20 percent discount on the monthly fee during the first three months of use to all new mobile internet customers.

Uf, da mi je FlatRate mobilni Internet… ali pravi FlatRate jer pretpostavljam da ni ovo nije skroz FlatRate nego uz neka ograničenja jer stalno spominju odvojeno messaging, e-mail i surfanje pa je moždaza očekivati da skidanje sa RapidSharea možda i ne bi išlo ali ipak… Mislim, nije da sam nešto strašno mobilan ali bi bilo interesantno sve prebaciti na mobitel i zaboraviti na žicologiju.

Ali nešto drugo mi je palo na pamet. Kad jednog dana, ako i konačno, mobilni internet postane nešto makar relativno upotrebljivo u odnosu cijena/količina podataka bit će to najbolji business na svijetu. Zamislite koja će to biti "penetracija" broadband priključaka kad se primjeni logika mobilnih telefona u kojoj svatko ima više od jednog telefona i predstavlja najmanje jedan priključka dok se kod fiksne telefonije to računa po domaćinstvu tj. jedan priključak se u prosjeku dijeli barem na 4 ljudi. I koja će to biti nenormalna zarada za mobilne operatere… hohoo… trebat će čudo optike i potrošača bandtwitha izmisliti da se u fiksnoj mreži nešto proda pored mobilnih čudesa. Srećom, to je još daleko… ali svejedno, lijepo zvuči.

The Croatian electronic communications market was worth HRK 14.2 billion in 2007, while estimates for this year put the value at over HRK 15 million, according to Croatia’s State Secretary for Transport and Communications, Drazen Breglec. Speaking during a telecommunications conference in Zagreb, he said that alternative operators in fixed telephony have nearly 276,000 subscribers, representing a 16.7 percent market share. Breglec pointed out that Croatia has 1.91 million internet users, representing a 43 percent penetration rate, while broadband users totaled 380,000 in 2007 or one-fourth of households and 8.5 percent of the population. Antun Caric from Croatian telecom regulator HAT said that in OECD countries the average investments in the telecommunications sector amount to 16 percent of revenues, while that figure in Croatia is 14.2 percent.

Na mobilnom telefonu obriši njen broj ako želiš da poštedim bedni život tvoj….