(keitai-l) Re: Is KDDI 3G (10 milion users) winning over DoCoMo Foma?

From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol_at_eurotechnology.com>
Date: 10/09/03
Message-ID: <3F858CBA.6050704@eurotechnology.com>
Ken,

Your information source is not correct.

You can send much larger photos than 10kbytes via FOMA today,

however to do so you have to set the correct settings on your handset.

Gerhard


Ken Chang wrote:
> FOMA can send photos of no more than 10,000 bytes today.  
 > would you call that 3G or 2G?
> 
> they may come out with some new handsets next year but FOMA won't be 
> able to provide good data service because it's mostly the old i-mode. 
> and will continue to be trailing the competitors as in 2.5G. 
> 
> the brilliant 505i phones (still DoCoMo lost to au/KDDI in attracting 
> new subscribers in the last 6 months) actually amplified the DoCoMo's 
> problem: the unbalance between the state of the art terminals (well, 
> not as good as J-SH53) and the obsolete ill-designed network services. 
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