(keitai-l) Re: This was just annonced today and will be sold as i-mode

From: rolf van widenfelt <rolf_at_pizzicato.com>
Date: 05/04/02
Message-ID: <3CD3A171.2431BD0C@pizzicato.com>
Luis,
thanks for posting this.

i hope that this time, ATT will stick to their dates.
Fall is still a long way off...

anyone care to speculate whether Nokia is committed to making i-mode
handsets?
how about Ericsson (Sony-Ericsson)?
i haven't heard that either of them are providing handsets 
for the Euro-imode services, and
this would be logical first step before committing to ATT.
does anyone know otherwise?

thx,

-rolf


> From: "Luis J. Samra" <luiss@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: This was just annonced today and will be sold as i-mode
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:37:13 -0400
> 
> AT&T Wireless to Be Launching Pad
> For DoCoMo's I-Mode Debut in U.S.
> 
> Nikkei Net Interactive
> 
> TOKYO -- AT&T Wireless Services Inc., the third-largest U.S. cellular
> phone company, plans to offer NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s i-mode
> Internet-compatible cell-phone service in the U.S. from this fall,
> Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Zeglis said Thursday.
...
> 
> The firm will provide English-language services similar to those offered
> by DoCoMo in Japan: e-mail, news distribution, bank transactions and
> ticket purchases. Motorola Inc., Finnish firm Nokia Corp., Sweden's
> Ericsson and NEC Corp. plan to market handsets specifically for the new
> service.
>
Received on Sat May 4 11:53:48 2002