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To: foundation who wrote (30514)	12/28/2002 9:28:42 AM
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Vodafone's hip 3G falls flat THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) December 28, 2002, Saturday By Dominic White VODAFONE'S first attempt to launch high-speed wireless internet services has stumbled like a pantomime cow. The mobile operator's third-generation handsets were meant to be the hippest gadgets on the Japanese high street this Christmas but only 150 phones were available for the launch day, December 20. By Christmas Eve only 800 more had been shipped out from its J-Phone subsidiary. "We can't deny there's not much out there," said a source close to J-Phone, who confirmed that only 31 of the 1,929 retail outlets in Japan that carry J-Phone handsets had 3G phones in stock for the launch. J-Phone is the first division of the Vodafone group to launch a commercial third-generation service, which offers high-speed internet connections and face-to-face video phone calls. J-Phone has targeted one million users for its 3G service by March 2004 but signals from rival NTT DoCoMo are less than encouraging. It has been offering 3G services for more than a year and has just 149,000 users. The industry is hoping that 3G services will eventually allow it to recoup the giant investments made in the technology. Vodafone is aiming for data services to contribute 20pc of revenues by 2004, up from 14.3pc at present. A Vodafone spokesman said: "We always said it was a soft launch in Japan and we are not selling 3G per se, but the services associated with it." ========== 2003.... The year of the soft-headed wCDMA launch. Nearly time for 950 January recalls? LOL!

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