Ken,
we did some work on L-mode for a customer. You can find a short
summary about L-mode and also the subscriber numbers here:
http://www.eurotechnology.com/Lmode/index.html
The subscriber numbers are really low! in the low 100,000s.
and that says nothing about the usage, which might be even lower.
Can't see how any content producer can make any money on this.
Japan telecom by the way has a competing services - does anybody
know if this is still around - they must have even lower numbers,
maybe a couple of thousand only.
No comparison to Minitel...
Gerhard
Ken Chang wrote:
> I think NTT East (the fixed network) is considering moving the money
> losing L-mode service to the Flets IP network. I guess it could also
> be bundled with IP phones. I'm convinced that we are going to have
> a full services broadband access and a server running 24x7 at home
> soon, that the L-mode is not like to ever be able to make any profit.
>
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