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Technology Stocks : METRICOM - Wireless Data Communications -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tushar Patel who wrote (1971)	1/11/2000 12:20:00 PM
From: doormouse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3376

Business Week Four page story this week on DoCoMo Netphone, Japan's packet switched wireless craze. Something amazing --- to the effect that the company's 1999 revenues were $36 BILLION. Technically, the DoCoMO network sounded approximately like Metricom's --- apparently every kid in Japan is walking around with a wireless IP (not circuit-switched) device. As a device, it sounded very much like some Metricom type variant aimed at DoCoMo's self-contained cell-phone-like device instead of a subscriber's PC. Article went out of its way to hammer in the fact that we Americans are among the LEAST connected :)) (When's the last time you saw a bidet, anyway?) Come to Finalnd --- where ELON is the standard..! :))