Submitted by Jim Udall on January 5, 2007 - 10:41am.
Well this idea had struck me some time ago, and an e-mail thread with my colleague - Richard Smith - prodded me to do something about it. The problem is that it's a real shame I even had to do it. You see it all came down to price plans for wireless networks.
In particular, Richard sent me a note where he parenthetically bemoaned the price of data on the Fido network. Specifically, in one instance he had consumed about 500K bytes of data - for which he was charged the whopping sum of $17.25 (pre or post tax - I'm not sure). In another instance, he had consumed about 270k bytes of data - for which he was charged $8.01. Now when you consider he's using an N80 device that has a reasonable 3M pixel camera, his average photo is just south of 1M. So uploading a single photo at these rates would cost on the neighbourhood of $30 each!
