WAP is not a failure in Japan, but I don't think people went the IDO, DDI, Tuka route for the WAP functionality, Very few keitai users understand the difference among all the phones. There are some people (2.5 million) that just dislike NTT DoCoMo and everything they stand for. Kevin Brent Bossom <bbossom@pg7.so-net.ne.jp> 2000/06/30 09:43:45 keitai-l@appelsiini.net$B$KJV?.$7$F$/$@$5$$(B $BAw?.Received on Fri Jun 30 04:36:40 2000so-net.ne.jp> $B08_at_h(B: keitai-l@appelsiini.net cc: (bcc: Kevin Williams/Japan/APAC/IDC) $B7oL>(B: (keitai-l) Re: ZDNet Australia: Equip: Is WAP crap? > Agreed. As has been discussed before, I-Mode's success and WAP's "failure" > have more to do with faulty business models and poor execution than bad > technology. I really don't think you can call WAP in Japan a failure. 2-1/2 million subscribers, in just over a year, in the face of the NTT Docomo juggernaut and the Norika boom over on J, is pretty impressive. And all of those subscribers have signed on for a new, untried service (CDMAOne), not just a new feature on the old PDC platform. Of course the numbers pale in comparison to the NTT numbers, but they are an extreme case. > And I hate my WAP phone (cdmaOne IDO by Toshiba, but at least it's clear > pink!) Should've got the Sony... Brent ------------------------------------- Brent Bossom -mobile- brent@ezb.ido.ne.jp -computer- bbossom@pg7.so-net.ne.jp -------------------------------------