Free-G - Kick-starting the mobile Internet

Surfing the Internet is easy with a third-generation (2.5/3G) mobile phone, reports Information Society Technologies. "But these miracles of wireless technology are nowhere near as popular as expected. Perhaps because their users pay for every byte of data they receive, whereas computer users can browse the Web for virtually nothing over a fixed-line connection.

"Innovative billing could ride to the rescue of 3G phones. Under the IST project Free-G, citizens of five European countries were offered the chance to access the Internet with their phones for nothing. The overall response to this ‘free-air access' was positive." [...]

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