Nik Frengle wrote:
>
> Drew,
> Let me jump into the fray here for a moment. Just to be sure we are on the
> same page, Drew, are you saying that Japan's system is a monopoly? I would
> disagree with that presumption, and I believe that most people who work in
> this industry would also disagree. To call it an oligopoly, which you do,
> may be somewhat closer to the truth. However, in this Japan is hardly
> alone--most countries have two or three really strong carriers at most. In
> England there is BT, Vodafone, and one more that slips my mind at the
> moment. In the US there is Sprint PCS, Verizon, and AT&T. In Japan there is
> NTT DoCoMo, au, and J-phone. If there is true competition between these
> three strong players, however, can you really say that it is an oligopoly?
>
> The following statement regarding compeition in the Japanese market seems
> ill-informed:
> >meets the needs of its customers. In a proprietary closed network, the
> only
> >people that make a system are those who a selected by the controlling
> power.
>
> You make the common mistake of assuming that there is little competition in
> the Japanese market, which could not be further from the truth. There are
> currently three COMPETING systems of Wireless Internet here--WAP,
> cHTML/i-mode, and MML.
There are more than 3 wireless internet systems in Japan!
Gerhard Fasol
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
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Received on Wed Sep 19 05:36:13 2001