{"id":130,"date":"2008-03-26T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/26\/r-i-p-european-i-mode-one-more-down\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:50:00","slug":"r-i-p-european-i-mode-one-more-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/r-i-p-european-i-mode-one-more-down\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. European i-mode: one more down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R-rU25TFb8I\/AAAAAAAABnU\/YTHZYHdlZZs\/s1600-h\/i-mode-3d.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;width:97px;height:122px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R-rU25TFb8I\/AAAAAAAABnU\/YTHZYHdlZZs\/s320\/i-mode-3d.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Following last year&#8217;s drop of i-mode by O2 UK and Telstra (see <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/i-mode-dropped-by-o2-uk-telstra.html\">here<\/a>), Germany&#8217;s third-largest carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-plus.de\">E-Plus<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/web20.telecomtv.com\/pages\/?newsid=42875&amp;id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10&amp;view=news\">now dropping<\/a> the service, too. I <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/i-mode-dropped-by-o2-uk-telstra.html\">saw the cause<\/a> last year in the ways of the data charges (through which NTT DoCoMo makes most of its money for the service) and noted that this wasn&#8217;t too compelling for users and this seems to hold true, in particular in view of the  move towards flat-rate data plans introduced in recent months by a lot of carriers, which will continue in the coming months, too.<\/p>\n<p>Outside Bouygues in France and, seemingly, O2 in Ireland, it never took off over here. Rotten subscriber numbers in spite of huge marketing budgets. R.I.P. Nuff&#8217; said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following last year&#8217;s drop of i-mode by O2 UK and Telstra (see here), Germany&#8217;s third-largest carrier E-Plus is now dropping the service, too. I saw the cause last year in the ways of the data charges (through which NTT DoCoMo makes most of its money for the service) and noted that this wasn&#8217;t too compelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[88,173,290,479,481,637],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bouygues","tag-e-plus","tag-i-mode","tag-ntt-docomo","tag-o2","tag-telstra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-26","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}