(keitai-l) Re: Vodafone.jp FY2003 results, KILLING THE I-MODE MODEL

From: Jofre Palau <jofrepalau_at_yahoo.es>
Date: 05/27/04
Message-ID: <MABBLBBIAFEPGAMLACCIIEIACLAA.jofrepalau@yahoo.es>
You are right Giovanni, but not only the current Series 60, but all Symbian,
Microsoft or Linux based are going to turn mobile operators in mobile ISPs.
The question is how fast that will happen.
Jofre Palau


> This note is very interesting... The Economist forecasted some time
> ago the possibility of mobile operators becoming pure bandwith
> providers while being pushed to a marginal position similar to ISPs.
>
> Looks like that competition and operators errors are bringing the market
> to this.
>
> In Europe phones based on Series 60, and not only those, are
> capable of using a full web browser like Opera in this way making
> you able to access a lot of free internet based information by using
> a  GPRS or UMTS flat rate (usually around 19 euros right now).
>
Received on Thu May 27 20:42:17 2004