In order to provide phone-bill based billing, opposed to credit card based, Mozilla will need a large healthy margin.
Phone companies want semi-ridiculous fees which make paypal & credit card's 3% look generous. Yet I think Mozilla would be wise to leave phonebilling open as an option. Carriers demand profit and are scared of Apple making them redundant.
That 30% is thus leverage and running things close to cost at 10% would reduce Firefox OS's appeal to carriers. At the end of the day Mozilla needs to keep the carriers happy to succeed.
Phone companies want semi-ridiculous fees which make paypal & credit card's 3% look generous. Yet I think Mozilla would be wise to leave phonebilling open as an option. Carriers demand profit and are scared of Apple making them redundant.
That 30% is thus leverage and running things close to cost at 10% would reduce Firefox OS's appeal to carriers. At the end of the day Mozilla needs to keep the carriers happy to succeed.