But why is it that I still feel that they will rip me off?
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This is the year in which Europe will either fall apart or emerged stronger. I give it 75% that it emerges as a stronger union but the risk of collapse is still there. Germany has the key to solve the problem because of the size of its economy, its saving rate and its export volume. Germany has to decide on whether it continues to transfer some of its wealth in order to create markets for its exports or it let’s Europe fall apart and ends up with an overvalued currency and deteriorated markets. Already today it started paying negative interest rates which is a prelude in my view to a huge rise in the DM should it be born again. Tough choice. I think Germany can actually both save Europe and make money by buying underpriced Italian and Spanish bonds and selling them after stabilization. It can do what the FED did with many financial institutions, make a profit by providing much needed liquidity at a critical time.
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Posted by CasaMan - June 1, 2006 11:17 pm - #
Who are “they” and does it personaly affect you?
Where the roaming prices not to high?
Do providers like vodafone and t-mobile bennefit because they can roam on their own networks in foreign countries and other networks can not?
Posted by Martín Varsavsky - June 2, 2006 1:10 pm - #
With Fon you share bandwidth at home and roam the world for free. With them you pay per minute at home and pay much more when you roam (although now a little less). In any case, it is not comparable cause our services are data with large throughput but poor ubiquity so far, and their services are low throughput compared to wifi but great ubiquity and expensive price.
Regards,
Posted by Christian Mairhofer - June 4, 2006 2:02 am - #
Yes. I lived in Austria, travelled to Germany with my Data Card and payed for 22MB of Roaming Euro 180,- A big price to pay. Right now I am in New York and I am using the data service a lot (still no Foneros where I am) and I am really not looking forward seeing my bill once I am back.
I think where Europe needs to get is a United entity like the states and consider the countries as States and provide one flat contract for all of those. I think it is slowing going towards this solution BUT a way to go. FON could be a faster first step in wireless to enable that