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Google Free Zone - Share and search on your phone with no data charges

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Re: Google Free Zone - Share and search on your phone with no data charges

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Post by rhplus »

My first thought was that it sounded like a walled garden, basically AOL for the mobile age, but then I saw this:

When you click on a link in the search results page, you don’t pay anything. If you click on a link after this, you will need to pay for this data usage (but don’t worry, before you are charged, you will see a warning page with the option to sign up for a data plan if you want.) So for example, if you click on a search link to a Wikipedia article, you won’t pay anything. But if you click on a link within the article, you will be charged for the data costs incurred loading that link.

That part is a really interesting. As the old saying goes, the first hit is always free! It's freemium for data plans.

I wonder if the phone operators are keen on this because it's a way to get people who were previously hesistant onto data plans.

Re: Google Free Zone - Share and search on your phone with no data charges

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Post by PeterisP »

There's a full page that describes a service that may be relevant to everyone, but nowhere in the page does it say which 1% of the planet it applies to.

If you mean "specific operators in one country", then name them.

If you saying "mobile operators" while meaning "<1% of all mobile operators" - that is simply lying. Well, 99% lying and 1% truth.

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