Little Smart users to pay for SMS
5/3/2004 15:20
Starting next Wednesday, users of Little Smart, a cordless phoning system,
in northern China will pay for short messaging service, which they currently
enjoy for free, today's Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Citing Beijing Telecom
Corp, Little Smart operator in the capital, the users will be charged 0.08 yuan
(1 US cent) for each piece of message they send out to those in Beijing, Tianjin
and provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan and
Shandong as well as Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
SMS has risen to be a
key business for telecom operator, data from Beijing Telecom indicated. On the
last three days of February, Little Smart users in the capital send an average
100,000 messages each day.
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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