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"Soon", huh? You can already buy various netbooks here (Austria) for "free", €1 or so as long as they get to lock you into a contract for 2 years.

examples (links all in German):

A1: €0 up front, €29/mo; €79 up front for shorter than 2 year contract:

http://www.a1.net/privat/netbook

T-Mobile: €0 up front, €25/mo:

http://shop.t-mobile.at/2151810010/1_1_3_5/3883f3fce5c87fc09...

that works out to about €600-700. Stand-alone netbooks go for around €350-400 typically, so you'll have to use about €200-350 worth of the data plan over the course of 2 years. Unless this is their only connection to the internet, I very much doubt most people will use it that much.



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