<"It's a disappointment and a fairly minor glitch in the scheme of things," said Roger Westbury, a spokesman for London-based BT. "Still, the problem meant you'd have an unmobile mobile phone, so that's no good.">
I wonder what he would consider a major glitch?
<BT was planning to roll out the service to 70,000 users at the end of this month, offering video and other multimedia services over phones with bandwidth much higher than the current 14K bit/sec. But BT will postpone the launch until late summer or early fall. "We shan't launch it until we're sure it's working," Westbury said.>
Well, they "shan't" be launching anytime soon. I guess all the world's SP's outside of the U.S. are content to watch the good ol' USA launch 3G first.
Analysts said they weren't concerned about the glitch. "A technical glitch such as this is not something to write home about," said Shiv Bakhshi, an analyst at Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, which is a sister company to Computerworld. "There are different interfaces involved with content, network distribution and reception on the handsets and to get one to talk to another, which involves a tremendous amount of technical and business coordination."
It's called "synchronization". Can't do mobile without it. This story is better than any novel I've ever read.
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