I think the same thing is even more true for GPRS in selected countries. At 3 dollar per megabyte or so, it is just to expensive. It might work for checking your mail, if you don't suffer so much from spam and can avoid the attachements, but I do think that any flat fee plan would have caused mass apeal, while now nobody uses it.
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Douwe Osinga
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