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To: JohnG who wrote (5935)	6/29/2000 12:57:00 PM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 34857

Is WAP a Flop?? There was an earlier piece stating that WAP usage was very low in another wireless marlet---was it Hong Kong? I look for richer content requiring higher bandwidth to rapidly overtake WAP. Irwin Jacobs sees WAP as a temporary transition product. JohnG WSJ has the same story today: interactive.wsj.com "just over 1% of T-Mobil's overall wireless subscribers use WAP services ... analysts said the figures suggest that most consumers who have tried WAP services can't see a compelling reason to use them on a regular basis. The article goes on to say the the much more primitive i-mode service in Japan is much more popular. People are willing to use it to exchange brief messages but surfing the web on the tiny mobile phone screens is not desirable. It seems to me that there is a distinct possibility that 3G will be a resounding failure. Its main advantage over existing PCS networks is high data capacity. Customers appear to be saying that such capacity on mobile phones is simply not needed, unless it is accompanied by significant advances in mobile phone hardware that will allow a reasonable approximation of the desktop PC experience in a mobile device. This is particularly true, if they have to pay an arm and a leg in order to cover the spectrum and infrastructure costs.