>
> The Japanese are going full speed with 3G with FOMA.
> What doe the Europeans have that makes them want GPRS
> so bad instead of following the Japanese with 3G and
> this point in time?
>
a prehistoric mobile data network that uses circuit-based communication
instead of packet-based as i-mode does.
this makes data applications expensive and impatient (you're paying per
second so you'll not accept long response times).
they are trying to set up a fast path to something that uses packet-based
communication to support data usage for mobile phones.
Harry
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Received on Mon Oct 15 11:51:16 2001