Video Calls To Save Vodafone Japan
Vodafone Japan said last week it would target youth and start wholesaling airtime in order to break out of its long-running funk. This week, it's hoping to get a boost from video calling -- and not just any video calling, or even international video calling, but expensive international video calling! Apparently since video calling has done so well for other operators around the world, offering its relatively few 3G subscribers expensive visual access to users in timezones halfway around the world really seems like it will help. Cheese phones will probably be more beneficial.
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