... if they manage to get the service open next month" -- FT article:
http://www.pikula.com/redirect/3cheers4docomo.html
"(But) I think it's unlikely to be a full commercial service." he
continues. Though mister Gent has been to Japan more than once for the
J-Phone stock deals, it is obviously he has not been paying attention there.
If Japan is good at anything, it is making things commercially available
before you can say "Let's target business users first".
But maybe he knows this, and he is just anticipating on his company loosing
out to DoCoMo in implementing 3G.
What is more important, are his following words in the article:
"We have always been of the view that... there are aspects of (the standard)
which are not agreed between all the participating (members)."
And it is *this* that I find very, very worrying. We all know DoCoMo's
foreign investments had the aim of spreading its version of WCDMA. Now I
just had word (not from a journalist, but from a network equipment maker)
that 3G implementations around Europe might differ not only on a software,
but also on a hardware level.
This might imply that the system will be hardly pan-European, let alone
compatible to the Japanese system. When I heard this, my mind said
"PANIC!" -- Will we have another GSM/PDC battle with
standards-within-standards different implementations of WCDMA? How will this
affect Japanese handset manufacturers looking to flood the European market?
Any thoughts?
Victor Pikula
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