On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Frengle, Nik, VF-JP wrote:
> ...somewhat 'iffy': "KDDI has enjoyed tremendous success in the
> mobile services market, and has surpassed NTT DoCoMo, a unit of
> Japan's former phone monopoly, winning more than three times as many
> subscribers to their 3G mobile service."
> ...
> With over 55 million customers, I am not quite sure that DoCoMo has
> been 'surpassed' by au's 17 million yet ;-)
I think that the "3G" is the important bit there: it is indeed true that
AU has surpassed Docomo in the number of 3G phones deployed.
Dodgy, but all's fair when marketing. :-)
As for, "BREW is Qualcomm's open source application development
platform," well, I can't come up with any plausable explanation for that
one that would match generally accepted definitions of "open source."
cjs
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Received on Mon Aug 30 10:02:16 2004