(keitai-l) Re: SMS and URLs

From: Jeffrey L. Funk <funk_at_iir.hit-u.ac.jp>
Date: 05/09/03
Message-Id: <5.0.2.5.2.20030509073218.02773d00@localhost>
At 18:12 03/05/08 +0900, you wrote:

>Jeff,
>
>Why would European operators prefer browsing instead of pulled downloads?
there are a number of different actors in the system. content providers 
that would like to offer more sophisticated contents can only do this with 
browsing services. Users that want these contents will have to use browsers 
to get them (but they won't understand this until they see the contents). 
And operators that want to offer these more sophisticated contents can only 
do this with browsing services. For example, this is the strategy of KPN 
and Bouygues Telecom. But they need to tap into the success of SMS and 
offer the successful SMS virtual communities (e.g., the TV chat groups that 
I cited in the previous example) an easy link to the i-mode services.
Clearly SMS is a short-term solution and will be replaced by the mobile 
Internet just as Minitel is being replaced by the PC Internet. How this 
occurs will to some extent determine the winners and losers in european 
telecom field over the next few years. WAP Push appears to be an 
interesting way that this might occur.
Jeff
Received on Fri May 9 01:44:33 2003