At least Docomo is doing one hell of an effort to hide that fact here in
Europe.
Vistited 3GSM congress (the
get-together-of-the-who-knows-and-does-what-in-wireless) and Docomo clearly
showed off (together with NEC).
They brought in their own classical band to cheer up the event and the stand
was loaded with nice looking european and Japanese hostesses.
keywords there were
i-mode/i-appli/i-area/c-mode/i-motion..../i-whatsoever....
so yes seems that Japan in the form of docomo is relying on the i-word.
Looks are great, but selling it will be another thing.
Wim
Michael Turner wrote:
At last, some relief for Juergen: this story is dated
February 25th. After so much news from the
distant past, finally some news from the future.
Things are pretty weird when you have stories
talking about how Japan is depending on i-mode
propagating abroad to salve its bruised national
prestige.
-m
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From: "Graham Brown" <gbrown@wirelessworldforum.com>[1]
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>[2]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) TIME: Deflating DoCoMo
Article in Time Asia today. FEBRUARY 25, 2002 VOL.159 NO.7
http://www.time.com/time/asia/biz/magazine/0,9754,203604,00.html[3]
"Deflating DoCoMo"
Looks like DoCoMo's honeymoon with the press may be heading for a Narita
divorce.
"...DoCoMo no longer sparkles as one of the few diamonds in Japan's rough
economy"
The soundings come pre-launch of imode in April and end FY01. One expects
a
repeat of the $2billion write-down that they were reluctantly forced to
admit
on KPN. March 31st may seem similar announcements for AT&T.
Time is one of the few pubs that shape the "mainstream" (remember not so
long
ago Matsunaga was beaming on the front page). DoCoMo's recent bond issue
(http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2002-02/0182.html[4]) and
future float on FTSE/NYSE relies on positive PR.
It's all exciting stuff though as the drama escalates ...
"DoCoMo is our flag bearer. If the company takes its time getting into the
global arena, we will lose our lead to American or other foreign
companies.
Without that kind of commitment from Japanese companies, our economy will
never recover."
GB
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