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To: John Biddle who wrote (30818)	1/7/2003 10:33:34 PM
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Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia, deciphered 2003-01-08 PRINTER FRIENDLY wirelesssoftware.info Don't believe in Nokia's propaganda - in many cases it has not much to do with harsh reality that cellular network operators and wireless software developers are facing in day to day business. The editors of Forum Nokia recently talked with Jorma Ollila, Chairman and CEO of Nokia to learn what challenges and opportunities mobile software developers will face in 2003. Below we present a few excerpts from propaganda of Jorma Ollila. Ollila says: "It's nice to look to the future, to anticipate technologies, but as we look to 2003, we should remember that we aren't talking about a set of promises anymore. The transition from mobile voice to exciting new mobile services is happening now." WirelessSoftware.info comments: in other words before year 2003 Nokia was just making empty promises but now, in 2003, it promises to not to make more promises, but at the end to start realizing the previous one! Ollila says: "WCDMA is an evolutionary technology for the GSM system, and together they constitute the single most important global mobile standards family. Everyone sees the desirability and the necessity of more bandwidth. Wideband wireless will be needed for increased capacity, cost-efficiency, speed, and quality of service." WirelessSoftware.info comments: increased cost-efficiency through ultra-expensive WCDMA networks? This is nothing but another call for operators to spend more money on network infrastructure from Nokia! But in reality many operators can manage with existing GSM/GPRS infrastructure or use CDMA 1x that although not being as fast as WCDMA, offers quite an improvement over GPRS. If Ollila really would be sincere in above "need for increased capacity" request, then Nokia 6650 cellphone (first Nokia's WCDMA phone) would offer video telephony feature, but it is not offering it! (just MMS messaging and streaming) Ollila also stays quiet, maybe out of ignorance (after all he is living in Finland - a very provincial country where no major cellular network operators are active - no Vodafone, no T-Mobile, no Orange), maybe on purpose, about business case of 3G/WCDMA becoming weaker and weaker, particularly in view of proliferation of Wi-Fi/Wireless LAN hotspots (not to mention the fact, that the new WLAN standards like 802.11b and 802.11g are many times faster than 3G/WCDMA technology). Ollila says: "While increased bandwidth is nice, it's only part of the revenue puzzle. We keep coming back to the developer. Operators are looking to make new services richer and more valuable in order to drive market penetration and usage. We provide the devices, but it's the developers who are the source of innovative applications and services." WirelessSoftware.info comments: this is clearly propaganda only, without merit, because in reality Nokia's "coming back to the developer" is second to non-existent! Example: Nokia does not offer any copy protection for wireless Java programs (MIDP midlets) - so commercial software houses have problems to develop non-free midlets because there is no copy protection mechanism (not even a possibility to read IMEI or serial number of the phone to have registration codes based protection). Another pain of developers wishing to use Nokia's distribution channels is costly "Nokia OK" program, that is required also for multi-platform applications like MIDP compatible Java programs (midlets).