E-Plus kills i-mode service

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What is i-mode? #

Posted Thursday 20th March 2008 17:33 GMT

For those who, like me, had never heard of it before, here's the Google link to the definitions:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS252US252&defl=en&q=define:i-mode&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Short version: It's a proprietary method of using a cell phone as a modem.

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mobile web browsing #

Posted Thursday 20th March 2008 17:34 GMT

not a patch on its PC counterpart.

Alessandro Longo

Italy has imode #

Posted Thursday 20th March 2008 19:29 GMT

Actually Wind in Italy is still running i-mode

http://www.wind.it/imode/it/index.phtml

Ian Ferguson

Re: mobile web browsing #

Posted Thursday 20th March 2008 19:33 GMT

Mobile browsing is fine, it's when the operator tries to keep users within a walled garden that it goes pear shaped.

I used O2 i-mode; all the 'services' were crap. Fortunately the phone's browser was capable of basic rendering of the rest of the web.

Ironically, I switched to an iPhone contract, and O2 kept charging me for i-mode services for several months afterwards. The only way to unsubscribe from services was through i-mode itself; something I obviously couldn't do. I've managed to convince O2 to stop charging me now, but no luck in getting my money back.

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