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To: S100 who wrote (101398)	7/8/2001 11:10:21 AM
From: Getch	Respond to of 152472

from the UK based Observer, comes the first (indirect) call for for Euro 1X-DO Overlay (data access on laptops and PDAs), preceded by a well-deserved slap at the big telcos. >>Telcos are still the corporate world's equivalent of the Ultrasauros, the dinosaur that stood six stories high, weighed 50 tonnes and had a brain the size of a walnut. Actually, the comparison is unfair to dear old Ultrasauros, for he probably had better strategic judgement than the Telcos, who shelled out $150 billion for 3G phone licences and are now contemplating spending a further $150bn to build the networks which will be necessary in order to provide 3G mobile services. <snip> There are really only two conceivable uses for a 3G phone. One is as a paperweight. The other is as a high- speed modem. The original 'killer app' of Baran's Arpanet was email. The killer app of mobile phones is an inferior form of email called SMS. The main reason users like me are looking forward to 3G is as a way of getting broadband connectivity from anywhere. What we're after is a way of keeping in touch with one another, not with CNN, HSBC, Nasdaq nor even, God help us, Arsenal.com. What we want is a way of connecting our laptops to fast, reliable, always-on, ubiquitous email. And therein lies the Telco problem: there is no money to be made from email because the user owns the content (shock, horror!) so there is no way of raking off a percentage from content providers. There is no way of intruding ads or sponsorship, either. So how will 3G be funded? Answers please on a stamped, addressed Marconi share certificate.<<