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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (7622)	7/15/2000 2:59:25 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

The mobile Industry got it Wrong If you think that mobile internet is going to be a businessman getting off the plane in Stockholm and trying to find a hotel, and while in the taxi looking for his share portfolio, think again. And do it fast because you are in for a nasty surprise. That's not going to happen. This is stuff marketeers put in their Power Point slides. Internet via mobile will be hot for Bangladesh, Peru and Nigeria. It is simple: people interested in access the internet and don't have the money to spend $1.000 in a computer. Mobile phone makers are thinking history will repeat itself. Do you remember a few years back when mobile phones -the voice sort- were rich-boys toys? So mobile phone makers and operators skimmed the cream of the market and before mobiles phones went downmarket? That's not going to happen with mobile internet. Today when the penetration of mobile is growing in the poorer countries is there where people want a more cheaper medium to surf the net. Not in Stockholm not in Peoria and not an Bethesda Maryland. In those p;laces people are 'over-computed'. If mobile makers and operators continue chasing their traditional markets and driving up price of licenses, waiting for an industry to bloom they will end up with the third millennium ISDN on their laps.