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To: Valueman who wrote (3292)	1/16/2000 11:03:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Value - GSM operators like Sonera started offering 38 kbps data transfer speed last September. World is evolving, indeed. But I think that the real mobile data break-throughs come when a critical mass is reached in both subscriber coverage and content. Like the 200 million GSM subscribers that will belong to the operators curently implementing GPRS. You may think that the Japanese CDMA mobile data solution that is offered there to 3 CDMA million subscribers is a break-through. I think that NTT-DoCoMo is the winner here, because they already have more mobile data customers than the entire subscriber base of DDI and IDO. DoCoMo's content providers are using HTML - and the competing CDMA service isn't. With its nine-month head-start DoCoMo turned its version of mobile data into Japanese de facto standard. Do you really think that i-Mode is going to be beaten after the momentum it managed to build in 1999? Japan indeed has 48 million mobile subscribers. And NTT-DoCoMo's market share has been increasing, thanks to i-Mode. Tero