IP: anyone got a clearly articulated business case for 3G?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com>
>To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>
>3G operators in throwback to bad old brick days
>
>Gloom has set in over the new technology for mobile phones,
>write Christopher Brown-Humes and Caroline Daniel
>The Financial Times
>Published: September 2 2001 16:27GMT | Last Updated: September 2 2001
>16:35GMT
>
>Ever smaller, sleeker and cheaper mobile phones have been the trend of the
>last few years. But it may be time to think again.
>
>When third-generation (3G) handsets offering features such as fast internet
>access reach the market in two years time, they are unlikely to look
>anything like today's neat models - at least not at the outset.
>
>--SNIP--
>
>Bleakest of all may be the predicament of some of the content providers -
>the very companies whose products may be needed to help generate excitement
>about the mobile internet.
>
>Many of them are likely to run out of finance well before 3G takes off.
>
>--SNIP--
>
>http://tm0.com/sbct.cgi?s=125256324&i=386122&d=1725352
>
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