(keitai-l) Re: European Felica

From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol_at_eurotechnology.com>
Date: 09/21/05
Message-ID: <4330A258.1060509@eurotechnology.com>
Keith,

It needs quite a lot of investment to roll out FeliCa phones
and to make all the infrastructure investments in the
stores to seed the market sufficiently to get onto a
positive feedback growth curve. I am not sure Europe is
used or ready to make these type of investments of that
size? Look at 3G - 3G isn't really rolled out nationwide
in Europe - only in the large cities... What do you think?

Gerhard

Keith McMahon wrote:
> With the demise of Simpay and the expansion of DCoMo i-mode licensees, do 
> people think DoCoMo will start pushing Felica into Europe?
>  Will the European Operators (esp Vod, Orange + T-Mobile) have to develop 
> their own technology to compete?
>  Canthe European Operators license the Sony technology?
> Thanks,
> Keith
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Gerhard Fasol, PhD                          Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
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Received on Wed Sep 21 02:59:29 2005