IP: Re:Suicidal GPRS pricing puts 3G at risk

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> X-Sender: larry () nomodes com
> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:10:35 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Larry Tesler <tesler () pobox com>
> Subject: Re: IP: Suicidal GPRS pricing puts 3G at risk
>
> > By Andrew Orlowski, TheRegister  Posted: 27/07/2001 at 15:19 GMT
> >
> > ... The European average works out at $214 per 100Mb per month, which for
> > some folk is a day's worth of SirCam attachments.
> >
> > ... Yunus reckons the cost of transport is only 8 cents per MB, so GPRS 
> > and 3G can be priced at less than $2.00 per MB (enough for seven 
> > average-sized SirCam attachments) for the networks to see their 
> > investment recouped and profit handsomely.
>
> Dave,
>
> My comment is not about GPRS pricing. It is about the apparent acceptance 
> by Internet users of the inevitability of well-known viruses arriving as 
> attachments to email.
>
> Well-known viruses, like obvious spam, should be filtered out by the 
> global mail distribution system before they get very far, and definitely 
> before they are squeezed through slow and expensive links.
>
> Server-side filtering is not rocket science. But it still seems to be the 
> exception rather than the rule. Can any interesting-people explain why?
>
> Larry Tesler



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