It is a peculiar line of reasoning Eric. I will paraphrase it as follows, "GPRS isn't so bad. With some goosing, (and don't mention the cost in bandwidth or price to consumer) it can approach some reasonable speeds, EDGE will be here, I swear, sometime. But even if it isn't, nobody really needs data anyway on a WAP phone. But I'm real excited with wi-fi".
And this isn't an apology for Nokey-Pokey?
And this while 6 million 1x users are happily cruising along at 60-80kbps in Korea, major cities in US, and now much of Japan with GPS location services, nice color screens, and phones half the price of FOMA. Somehow the GPRS subscribers or performance never gets quoted. I see your list of contracts, commitments, etc, but where are the subscriber numbers, and average data throughput speeds (a review from an independent 3rd party would be nice)? I admit I have QCDMA colored glasses, but I am amazed how you can still be so rosie about GPRS and going over the edge with EDGE. Give me something to go on to see it your way. |
