At 07:19 2001-08-15, you wrote:
>>That is, Europeans will turn on their phones in 3 years and see one of three
>>things 'Welcome to Vodafone', Welcome to Orange' or Welcome to T-Mobile'
>>(or, perhaps, AOL). And people will not argue about whether Nokia or
>>Ericsson have the best messaging app, but whether Vodafone or Orange do.
>
>That is what people said years ago about last mile ISP connection
>providers. Then came along portal ISPs like Yahoo who didn't bother with
>providing IP connections and almost everybody today has an email alias or
>web email account with one of those portals.
>
>For one, such services allow wireline carriers who have lost out against
>wireless carriers to regain some terrain. Then, skyrocketing cost for 3G
>has prompted carriers to look into ways of renting out their networks to
>emerging MVNOs which is more and more favoured and promoted by regulators
>in Europe. It only needs one of those MVNOs to successfully deploy unified
>messaging and call forwarding services and telephony portals will be all
>the rage.
Right. But the telecom suppliers (with operators as most important
customers before MVNOs) have also understood this. So they invented the
telecom centric format MMS to be used instead of email, again with bonding
between network and services. This is also part of the M-Services
intitative that is said to have learnt from i-mode...
/g
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Received on Wed Aug 15 09:23:00 2001