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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (2507)	9/25/2002 6:45:03 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9255

Trevor, re: The great mobile phone conspiracy << Denmark-based Strand Consulting has a habit of bundling provocative statements when releasing its reports, and the company's latest is no exception. >> There is probably much truth in Strand Consulting's statements. << the company sees no other reason than that different manufactures must have sat down in secret and agreed to adopt this strategy. In other words - a terminal manufacturer world conspiracy worthy of a Hollywood movie. >> I'm not so sure about the secret part. OMA was from the outset an initiative to get everybody on the same page as to the priority of applications and enablers to create a mass non-fragmented market for wireless data services. The pieces that had to come together were WAP 2, MID P Java, MMS, DRM. The standards had to be properly matured, the backend servers and gateways developed, ordered, and deployed, and memory and display technology had to advance. Then there is content and applications development (still weak but progressing), interoperability, tarriffing, roaming, and other commercial issues. Within their markets the Japanese and Koreans (government, carriers, vendors, and content developers) worked much more diligently to put the pieces together than elsewhere. - Eric -

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (2507)	9/26/2002 5:21:32 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 9255

"and only sell 2.5G mobile phones (with colour screens) when operators are ready" Yes, must obviously be a real conspiracy to blame the manufacturers for that. Except if they followed the Naantali meating and put all the blame on Motorola for not approving a consensus decision on a simple problem. Might also explain the "when operators are ready" as the decision became to let the operators decide. But why would they be so cruel and mean with poor Motorola?? Ilmarinen Yawn on the dictatorial effect, so well known from Docomo and I-mode, compared to hundreds of operators and tens of manufacturers, including one motorola. yawn,yawn, having to have two displays on the phone, one b&w to work when the sun shines, and the color one to use when one can get indoors. (plus those silly,fuzzy, big pixels and especially the black stripes between them, as on the T68) Me would recommend taking the T68, the 9210 communicator and the 7650 out in the bright sunshine, to notice the difference in display technology, as well as setting up billling and roaming systems between a lot of themon some 20-40 operators, for every kB. (and why not a regular top-notch laptop too??learn about reflective and backlight)