On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 w-ando@cb.jp.nec.com wrote:
> Even though the average J-PHONE customer knows or has heard about
> 'Vodafone', I wonder all of them can spell it correctly. Some may
> type 'bodafone', while the others may do 'vodaphone'. All of the
> three(vodafone/bodafone/vodaphone) listed above sound same in
> Japanese! I personally think it may cause a lot of confusion among
> J-PHONE users unless J-PHONE launches a heavy ad campaign for this.
I think they may be in big trouble. I just went to use whois to
see if they had perhaps registered "bodafone.ne.jp" as well as
"vodafone.ne.jp," and before I discovered that they hadn't, I misspelled
"vodafone" twice! (Once as "vodophone" and once as "vodaphone.")
Or maybe the average Japanese can spell better than I can. :-)
cjs
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Received on Wed Jul 16 08:43:31 2003