(keitai-l) Re: Nokia-Germany CEO interview

Hi Clive,

I expected this would confuse since I ripped it a bit out of context -
sorry: This was about i-mode in Europe which is based on GPRS, not about
i-mode in Japan which is at 9.6 but soon at 20-something kbps for the new
504i's.

Regards!
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: van Hilten, Clive [mailto:Clive.vanHilten@Misys.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:41 PM
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> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Nokia-Germany CEO interview
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> >> As far as I know, i-mode services run on GPRS
> I thought i-mode's data speed was 9.6kbps. Or am I wrong on 
> this point?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Clive.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Printz [mailto:Marc.Printz@724.com]
> Sent: 15 March 2002 03:09
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Nokia-Germany CEO interview
> 
> 
> 
> As far as I know, i-mode services run on GPRS, do support 
> WML/XHTML content,
> have e-mail with attachments, something I guess is relatively easily
> integrated with upcoming MMS and today's SMS anyways. So for 
> the end user
> i-mode does not deviate much from open technologies really.
> 
> The real difference is that i-mode offerings in EU follow in 
> the footsteps
> of content subscriptions. This allows content providers to 
> potentially earn
> money. Which makes content development attractive. Etc etc. My first
> thoughts when European i-mode efforts were announced were: "Oh, what
> services could I offer there to make some money?" - I guess I 
> wasn't the
> only one.
> 
> Of course, European telcos could've done all that since ages 
> and without
> paying license fees but they just didn't get that the world of mobile
> services today is about farming and not hunting anymore, 
> about creating a
> market inside and not just participating in a market. Perhaps 
> this insight
> and the billing model was not high on the list of reasons to 
> license i-mode.
> The main reason was maybe blind trust in the success of the 
> brand (in the
> case of Coke that works, too). Perhaps though it was all perfectly
> understood at a point in time when it was considered too late 
> to establish &
> market an own approach - i-mode having a good image was then 
> just seen to
> help get the necessary attention from content providers, 
> users, etc (*).
> 
> Interestingly, i-mode could be a non-starter because - 
> despite its reported
> success in Japan - it is potentially perceived as something totally
> proprietary that's incompatible with the rest of the world. 
> So a strong
> brand can also have its disadvantages.
> 
> Marc
> 
> (*): Of course it makes total sense that MMS in Europe should be first
> targeted at police force and insurance companies who want to 
> take pictures
> of accident scenes...
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Olivier MARTIN [mailto:martin@anoria.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 2:14 AM
> > To: Gerhard Fasol
> > Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Nokia-Germany CEO interview
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 14/03/2002, 18:13:14, Olivier writes : 
> > 
> > thank you, really interresting news...
> > Nokia has the same arrogance as Microsoft in 1994 when 
> > Microsoft said what
> > they will never invest on Internet ;-)
> > 
> > Thursday, March 14, 2002, 9:34:25 AM, you wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > GF> Those interested to know what Nokia-Germany's
> > GF> CEO thinks about i-mode, sha-mail etc can find
> > GF> an interview here:
> > GF> http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,186861,00.html
> > 
> > GF> Here are some interesting extracts - he says that:
> > GF> - 77% of imode usage in Japan is SMS
> > GF> - imode has no future in Europe
> > GF> - he thinks WAP, GPRS, MMS offers the same things
> > GF>   as imode in Japan
> > GF> - he thinks typical applications for images
> > GF>   via mobile (sha-mail) in Europe will be
> > GF>   police officers and insurance agents reporting
> > GF>   images from accident scenes to operation centers
> > GF> - European handset makers are unlikely to offer
> > GF>   imode handsets
> > GF> - Nokia will introduce UMTS handsets on Sept 26.
> > 
> > GF> Gerhard Fasol
> > GF> http://www.eurotechnology.com/
> > 
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