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To: Jonas1 who wrote (2161)	10/30/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6018

Jonas, I think you are absolutely right about business to individual consumer. In the U.S. conventional businesses have caught up. But, as you remarked, there still is BtoB and also there is the infrastructure. In Japan, it's not so. Conventional businesses move slowly. Think of a world where there are no stock options and nobody is fired, (just shoved towards the window) and it's rare to hire somebody who has worked anywhere else. That's the atmosphere inside of a typical Japanese corporation. The loyalty is tremendous but the leap to new arenas is slow. With instant communications its hard to imagine how different different countries still remain. By the way it's still the case that local calls are expensive in Japan so many people I know there are disinclined to use the internet, for that reason. Softbank will change that.