Some interesting points from Nobuharu
Ono Ceo of Ntt DoCoMo USA:
The 50,000 Japanese 3G subscribers in
January 2002 grew to 150,000 in January
2003, he said, but by the end of May that
number swelled to 350,000.
"The main problems were fixed this year,"
Ono said. "Coverage reached 91 percent
as of March 2003. Battery life became
more than 200 hours. And price and
weight (of 3G handsets) are almost
comparable to 2G (second generation)
handsets."
Still the american C-NET insists in
comparing WI-FI to 3G as a
competing technology (I am little
bit bored about this...):
3G can use all the momentum it can
get. Mobile phone network operators
spent enormous amounts of money
buying tracts of the radio wave
spectrum for 3G services that have
arrived later and worked slower than
hoped. In the meantime, the 802.11
"Wi-Fi" wireless networking technology
has caught on, even with mobile
phone companies such as AT&T
Wireless and Verizon.
Full text:
http://news.com.com/2100-1095-1019617.html?tag=nl
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giovanni bertani mobile vas consultant and analyst
exsense verona italy
Received on Sun Jun 22 00:55:44 2003