Oh God Jurgen, get a grip, I was just kidding.
Now, in terms of my knowledge about the Japanese market, say what you want
about me, but when you say that DoCoMo owned less than 5% of KPNM before
12/02 when they really owned 15%, you're really not in a position to be
superior about the Japanese market in my opinion.
I'll go toe to toe with you on any market my friend.
In terms of L-Mode, I remember when it was first released in 2001 - I
thought it was interesting but doomed.
In terms of L-Mode in general, I don't think it will disappear but be a much
reduced form limited to some basic commerce and business functions. Or not,
but that's where I think it would make sense to go.
Mark
On 5/14/03 19:48, "Juergen Specht" <js@nooper.com> wrote:
>
>> Guys, I was just taking the piss (to use the British parlance).
>> Please think nothing more of it... I just thought the correlation
>> between women an= d L-Mode was unfair to the women :)
>
> Seems you are better informed about the french market than the
> Japanese one ;)
>
>> Anyway, your point about the ad campaign for L-Mode is right, its
>> pathetic. If you asked me, I'd say they should be playing off of it
>> for strictly business purposes - as its tied to fax machines.
>
> As Gerhard just pointed out: 150,000 paying subscribers. And it
> was started sometimes in October/November 2000 with quite higher
> expectations:
>
>> The companies [NTT East/West] say that they hope to sign up
>> 1.5 million to 2 million of their existing customers to the
>> service [L-mode] in the first year of operation.
>
> Since they have now 150,000 subscribers and hardware manufacturers
> invested quite some money into the development of L-mode devices,
> it's tough to shut it down and to admit a failure. So it's pushed
> pretty much with the ads in TV lately....but I believe that at one
> stage it will just disappear.
>
>> Anyway, why use it when you have a keitai?
>
> That's the reality which bypassed the expectations.
>
> Juergen
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