Call for Action!

Another idea that came out of the talk that Katrin gave last week was the possibility of evaluating the mobile telecommunications networks on their costs. Just simply: what price brackets do telecommunication operators offer per bit on the different communication chnanels? This will help us see what telecommunications company think are expensive bits, and what are inexpensive bits.

Some of these are probably reasonably expensive bits (think about the US now): voice-lines during the day. Some of these are probably unreasonably expensive bits (again US thinking): SMS without an unlimited plan.

Would be fun to look at how the bit-pricing varies across characteristics about how the bits are transferred around the world, and probably make some interesting visualizations of this data.