http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/6/ns-20972.html
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Europolitan Holdings launched Sweden's first nationwide GPRS offering in
December, but the number three mobile company has attracted "a very low
number" of GPRS customers since then. CEO Risfelt blamed a "total absence" of
handsets, saying the only currently available GPRS phone is Motorola's
Timeport.
Well...
-- Europolitan did not cite subscription figures, but the newspaper said only
1,000 of the Motorola GPRS phones have been sold.
... that explains everything now doesn't it! Motorola fires more staff than it
is producing cool phones nowadays.
-- He said demand for GPRS itself remains strong. Nokia and Ericsson are
planning to launch GPRS phones later this year, which may boost take-up.
Let's hope they sell them directly do the DoCoMo-KPN-TIM group, for if they
don't, we'll all be carrying NEC's and Panasonic before the end of this year.
(no offense, Jan!)
Cheers,
Victor P.
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Received on Wed Feb 21 20:40:17 2001