All well and good, but what do you propose that these services should be?
And what is the compensation model to give a real incentive to the content
provider? And is GPRS really reliable enough to actually provide real
service quality that many content companies demand?
Frankly, in Europe, many consumers and content providers were burned by
everything WAP and in the US are still worried about getting a reliable
signal. So until some of the universal lessons of the Asian markets are
better applied, there simply won't be an attractive enough platform for most
content providers to put anything online but experimental services at best.
Now, of course these content companies much of the time are far too slow in
adopting new technology, but the truth is that much of the network and many
of the devices aren't ready to deliver the content you're asking for, and
you have to see their valid perspective for the whole picture.
That is my opinion, anyway.
Mark Frieser
On 27-04-2002 7:38, "Tom Hume" <tom@futureplatforms.com> wrote:
>
> Precisely. And where's the incentive for people who could build worthwhile
> services - the content providers - to invest time, effort, and money in
> doing so? With the exception of a few well-publicised deals with large
> content providers (the BBC, EMAP, etc.), little has happened here.
>
> At 21:39 26/04/2002 -0700, Donal O'Shea wrote:
>
>
>> They have done NOTHING to inform people on what GPRS is or what it can
>> do. They have provided NO applications or services.
>>
>> Now the only chance they have is to price it right -- like SMS.
>>
>> Don't hold you breath! These people are special.
>>
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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"?
>>
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