(keitai-l) Re: FW: Re: Cmode experience

From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings_at_roundpoint.com>
Date: 09/07/01
Message-ID: <70B689D6582BF04690D425A24AB386E408B204@presidio.roundpoint.co.uk>
David Davies wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 September 2001 5:43 PM Graham Brown wrote:
> 
> >>
http://www.mobileyouth.org/printout.php?sec=3&lim=8&inc=1&crit=2&start=1
6
> >> ...
> >> The three companies plan to carry out a three-month trial of the
> >> Cmode service involving 25 vending machines located throughout
> >> Tokyo. NTT DoCoMo and Coca Cola entered into a strategic
> >> agreement in March 2001 to explore ways of incorporating mobile
> >> internet services with vending machines. To date the three
> >> partners have invested Yen1.1 trillion in the Cmode venture.
>
> Mmmh...
> 1.1 Trillion (US$100 Billion) 

More like $9.1 billion.

> Isn't that a tad more than the market cap of Coca Cola itself ?  

I don't think so, but somehow I don't see them betting so much money
on this.  I think an extra factor of 1000 has slipped in somehow.

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Received on Fri Sep 7 15:41:42 2001