The tipping point is 2000 1x combined with video, pictures and GPS services.
KDDI has sold over 280K 3G handsets in one month in Japan - which is five
times the figure for six months of FOMA. This is due to the reliability of
the network, the cost of the phones (about half that of the retail price of
FOMA) and the services available.
Basically, there's not much that differentiates FOMA for available 2G
services, which is hampering the growth of FOMA... On the other hand with
KDDI/2000 1x, they have a greater range of streaming video and GPs services
than FOMA that work much more efficiently than those of FOMA.
Honestly, its a matter of price and what you can do with the phones, and
they will never really take off until you get 3G digital media downloads
cheaper than say 25-50 cents US per download.
That's my opinion. Until then, there's really nothing to make 3G take off -
in effect you can get most of what is available via 2G.
Mark
On 26-04-2002 10:23, "James Bennett" <James.Bennett@paconsulting.com> wrote:
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> An interesting little factoid from the UK, rather like that low level of
> Foma usage on Foma.
> A fifth of all handsets sold in the UK by the Carphone Warehouse, the
> biggest phone retailer in the country, were GPRS in Q1. That's about 35,000
> units.
> And how many of those people used GPRS network services?
> 200.
> This reminds me of the days when SMS was installed on all phones, but it
> took months and months before it took off and then boom.
> So where's the "Tipping Point"?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juergen Specht [mailto:js@nooper.com]
> Sent: 26 April 2002 11:12
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) In case you invested in 3G...
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> In case you invested vast amounts of money in
> 3G/UMTS...you should NOT read this mail. Just ignore it.
> Delete it. Think about your weekend. Switch off your
> computer now. Don't scroll down.
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> But for the poster who misses Michael Turner...he is back.
> Kind of. At least he is involved in the newest "Showcase of
> Japanese Keitai Culture". But only involved. We forced him to
> do that for us. It was hard work. It costs us vast amounts
> of beer ^H^H^H^H money:
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> http://nooper.co.jp/showcase/
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> :)
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> Enjoy,
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> Juergen
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