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September 7th, 2008Man walks in to a mobile phone shop

Posted by Editor in Business models we'd like to see, data

From across the pond this morning:

Not the cheese shop sketch
Man walks into a mobile phone store.
Ouch!
No, let’s do that again. This time without the faintest hint of a joke.
Man walks into a 3UK retail store on Princes Street in Edinburgh.
“I’d like to buy a prepaid mobile broadband SIM card please”.
“I’m sorry, but we don’t sell those.”
How do they stay in business? I want to know the secret to making money without sales! Just don’t expect me to blog it when I find out…

Har har it’s funny because everybody knows how easy it is to find prepaid data cards.

Er wait, hold the phone*, everyone knows you can find _what_ in Europe?

£10 per 1 GB or £25 for 7GB prepaid is the going rate btw (taxes included).

Prepaid data. Data by the pound, stick it in any device, like a £49.99 prepaid mobile broadband dongle, pay for the data only as you use it. A startling invention. Due any decade now in Canada.

File under: business models we’d like to see.

*Hold the phone – geddit?

  • http://beyondthebleedingedge.blogspot.com Andrew

    Someday we might catch up… I am sure our CRTC will create an environment to reward new services – sometime this century.

  • http://www.eecards.net Dream Cards

    thanks u sharing !

  • http://palmdiscovery.com maceyr

    Cool! Yeah, here's to hoping! But man, that does look very good!

  • http://www.cheap-phone-accessories.com cheap phone accessories

    Hi all, very interesting input from everyone. I am looking to upgrade from a D900 to the i780 and have a question about the GPS. Is there an annual fee, subscription or usage charge or is it genuinely ‘for life’?

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