Today's editorial in Japan Times "Hanging up on 3G" is an example of the 3G
anti-hype that is becoming increasingly common in mainstream news media
around the world.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?ed20010517a1.htm
Editors who know absolutely nothing about telecoms copy each other
uncritically, sprinkling the articles with cliches and rethorics such as;
'growing clouds over the entire sector', 'growing doubts about the 3G holy
grail', '3G bets misplaces', 'bad signs for the whole industry', 'bet its
future on 3G', 'delays of much-hyped service, magnifying jitters about the
viability of 3G technology', 'desperately trying to recoup extravagant
spending on 3G licenses' etc. etc.
And they are going on and on and on about these license costs in Europe,
without even knowing that this ONLY applies to the UK and Germany (which
accounted for over 75% of all licence costs in Europe). Most other markets
were bargains, or free!!!
I'm sick of it...
(and continuing to mourn my poor Ericsson shares...)
/Daniel
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Received on Thu May 17 07:32:47 2001