since docomo are charging the customer, they need to have a screening
process for the sites. There have been class action lawsuits against telco's
in the US for adding 2 seconds at the end of a call...
how would you suggest the screening process can be outsourced (eg to
portals/'publishers') and yet indemnify docomo?
perhaps if the billing mechanism was opened up, in a way where you would
have a mobileID like a creditcard#, from a third party company, that is
simply billed by docomo. then your dispute would be between the billing
agency and the content collector?
a little like 'adultcheck' in the porn world (don't they invent everything?)
where you pay once for a membership ID that can be 'spent' across many
participating sites...
/dc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Funk Jeffry Lee [mailto:funk@rose.rokkodai.kobe-u.ac.jp]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:09 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: difficulties of becoming an
> official i-mode site
>
>
> Hello Juergen and others,
>
> I agree with most of what Juergen has said. I also think
> Juergen and
> others like him deserve a lot of credit for creating
> successful mobile
> internet business in japan (of which I have not done). I
> also would like to
> apologize for posting an incorrect example (virgin airlines) - of
> nevertheless what I believe to be a correct phenomena. This
> is where I
> differ with Juergen's opinion. It is the very success of
> Docomo's i-mode
> system that has caused us to look at it very closely at
> i-mode. while
> docomo did not claim that "i-mode is the internet in your
> pocket," i-mode
> willl become that and I take my hat off to docomo for this.
> the internet is the most important technological
> development of our time
> and Docomo has shown the world how the mobile internet can
> be an important
> part of the overall Internet. In some ways Docomo has
> succeeded too much and
> thus it may have too much power. this is not to say that
> docomo is bad; if
> the rest of Japan's traditional companies (e.g., banks) had reformed
> themselves the way docomo has done, there would be no
> recession or banking
> crisis in japan. It is too say that no one firm should be
> able to say who
> can participate in the mobile internet and further, why
> should docomo want
> to do this? Juergen is right. docomo is too busy to evaluate the 400
> submissions it receives every day. docomo should began
> transferring this
> work to other firms so that it can concentrate on other
> things (like 3G) and
> to enable a restructuring of the official menu to occur.
> this probably
> sounds like a mouthful but if docomo were to begin allowing
> its official
> providers to create linkages and portal sites and if it
> were to create a
> specific category on its official menu for these portal
> sites and search
> engines, other firms could do the screening for docomo. I
> believe users
> would eventually get a better service and docomo would get
> more traffic, the
> latter of which is very good for docomo.
> I apologize for the long message. it is the nature of my field.
>
> Jeff Funk
> Kobe University
>
>
>
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Received on Thu May 10 03:11:51 2001