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To: Eric L who wrote (42244)	4/29/2001 1:12:24 PM
From: Bruce Brown	Respond to of 54805

Great article, Eric. The amount spent by the average British mobile phone user each day might surprise you. It astonished us. A straw poll in the office produced responses ranging from 30 minutes to an hour. In fact, according to OFTEL, it's around 3 minutes and falling. In regards to the data suggesting 3 minutes per day of voice calls on mobile phones in Europe - according to my monthly bills, I use my GSM handy between 15 and 20 minutes a day on average. Ouch! Most European conversation calls are short and brief whether it is a land phone or wireless due to the pricing structure and per minute charges - especially during peak hours. Heck, with some of my phone bills it would simply be cheaper to meet for coffee if I'm going to chat for a good length of time. I would be curious what other countries have determined in their data as to the average daily use in terms of minutes for mobile phone use. I say that only because every where I go in Austria, Italy and Germany all I see are people with phones glued to their heads gabbing away. Could it be that the study conducted on British average daily mobile phone use confirms what we've all known now for centuries - the British simply don't have anything to say. <gg> BB

To: Eric L who wrote (42244)	4/29/2001 3:12:08 PM
From: CRL	Respond to of 54805

"Odlyzko's proposition is simple: historically more money has been spent on point to point communications and connectivity than on content, which in digital terms means email, instant messaging and chat groups, and peer-to-peer personal file sharing. Networks looking to recoup the data services to recoup the costs of 3G licenses are whistling, he says." Regardless of the merits of the conclusion of Odlyzko's paper, anyone looking for a historical justification for the use of a first-of-its-kind system, or (better stated) anyone arguing against the feasibility of a first-of-its-kind system based on historical standards is building an analysis on a very shaky base IMO.