>Many people seem to have forgotten that 2G (GSM) services took a long time
>to succeed. Phones were almost impossible to get in the first year of the
>services. GSM services initially saw growth in markets that did not have
>successful analog services like germany and france while growth was slower
>in scandinavia and britain. and vodafone was very slow with GSM since the
>two "new" operators in england (then called one-to one and orange) did not
>have analog networks and thus had to push GSM while vodafone was doing
>well with analog. 3G shows the same problems with a lack of phones and
>coverage. I wouldn't get too excited about 3G's problems or with KDDI's
>early lead in Japan.
Jeff Funk
Received on Mon Oct 20 03:32:28 2003