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| Thread ID: 32459 | 2003-04-19 05:31:00 | 3G on its way to NewZeland!!! | nzstevem (3633) | Press F1 |
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| 136925 | 2003-04-20 04:25:00 | A conversation of ignorance. Lovely. I wrote a university paper a few years ago ( got 94% so it must have been good) In this paper i talked about the future of communications and more specifically Instant Messaging and the integration with cell-phones. I am only seeing now telecom providing phones with instant messaging services on them. But what i found through my research is that MMC (multimedia communications) is going to be a bit of a dive. Yes there are people who will want/need to use a video capabile cell phone, but the problem is that this population represents about 5% of cellphone users. Marketing companies bet there bucks on WAP being the hottest thing out. it turned out to be a flunk (something i predicted in my essay), It is probable that this too will happen with 3G. The reason being is when you strip away all the exciting techonology the actual usability isn't that great (just as some people have pointed out they can check there emails from a computer and don't need a cell phone for that) Now i can't be talking out my **** when i say this, because as of yet all telecommunications companies are being very slow in releasing 3G. Why? Because the prices are going to be very prohibitive, the international companies spent far too much on buying 3G frequencies and now they don't have the services that will give them a required ROI. (note: this is not the case in NZ where our 3G frequencies were sold cheaply) and no 4G is not just around the corner, for the exact reasons i make above. I am not denying that some day that these service will come, but don't expect them to be coming anytime soon in the comming years (at decent prices) |
roofus (483) | ||
| 136926 | 2003-04-20 04:27:00 | > A real flame war... nah just different points of view. (i apologise if this is sounding that way, i will make this my last post on this thread) > > Anyway, what I wanted to say, was that you can check > your emails out of town using webmail. Any decent > ISP, business, etc, should have webmail available to > their customers/employees to check emails while away > from their own computer/out of town/on holiday. > Cellphone services are damned expensive, hell, even > 20c text messaging is a rip off. yeah i do that anyway but i have my own business and as i travel alot access to computer is often limited. mobile access is so convenient and saves me a lot of time so the cost is paltry in comparison. my point is that companies supply products and services. if you want to use them then pay the cost. i think that is simple. i just cant see the point in slagging companies that do provide sdervice that you may not use or want, that makes no sense. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 136927 | 2003-04-20 19:21:00 | New social menace: a talking mobile phone www.smh.com.au |
E.ric (351) | ||
| 136928 | 2003-04-20 23:45:00 | > New social menace: a talking mobile phone > www.smh.com.au > 50172799695.html (www.smh.com.au > 99695.html) Where can I get one that says "Hi Snookums" |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 136929 | 2003-04-20 23:47:00 | A mobile phone that didn't talk would be interesting. Maybe we would all have to learn morse-code or suchlike | Baldy (26) | ||
| 136930 | 2003-04-21 00:25:00 | A telephone (mobile or landline) is for talking to someone. Messaging, internet access, etc. is for a computer (desktop or notebook). Instead of spending hundreds of millions on mobile phone add-ons for yuppies and kids, spend it on providing cheap broadband at minimal cost for those of us who have their priorities right. That's my opinion, anyway. |
rodb (1561) | ||
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