(keitai-l) Re: Why Seattle?

From: Patrick Conway <pconway1_at_san.rr.com>
Date: 04/06/01
Message-ID: <3ACDFF79.9CE611E4@san.rr.com>
Where in the hell are ATT Wireless headquarters located? I checked their web
site and darned if I could find out. ATT acquired McCaw Cellular. McCaw was
based in Seattle, right? They probably have a ton of resources there.
Every Japanese newspaper has a reporter in Seattle covering Ichiro. Now they can
cover Ichiro and the introduction of i-mode to the U.S. at the same time.
Hawaii sounds good but it's kind of isolated from the rest of the U.S. I also
wonder what ATT's wireless market share is there. I believe GTE is number one
there (don't quote me on that).

Pat

Virgil Vergara wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering why would NTT select Seattle to debut Imode in America?
> Wouldn't it have been feasible to maybe bring to an Internationalized city
> like Honolulu first where there is an enormous influx of tourist from Japan
> which would have the abilities to use their Imode telephone here? I just
> thought that Honolulu would have been the perfect launch pad for Imode since
> it would offer America a glimpse into it's technology.
>
> Virgil
>
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