NEWS: Europeans indifferent to 3G

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A report has concluded that a full 49 per cent of mobile phone users in
Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium are not interested
in 3G services. ...

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I wonder what that figure would be here?
Most people I talk to around here in Wash DC, don't care about 3G services
either.
2.5G and Blackberry and they are happy, and it goes down to 1G ( voice ) for
the rest of 'em.
Not very comprehensive mind you, but just talking to people in the last
couple months about data services, etc.

Scotty


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> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/36474.html>:
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> A report has concluded that a full 49 per cent of mobile phone users in
> Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium are not
interested
> in 3G services. ...
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> Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
> John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:26:22 +0000, John Navas wrote:

> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/36474.html>:
>
> A report has concluded that a full 49 per cent of mobile phone users in
> Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium are not interested
> in 3G services. ...

Yup I'd agree with that...there's certainly nothing on 3G that'd interest
me.

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"michael turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:26:22 +0000, John Navas wrote:
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> Yup I'd agree with that...there's certainly nothing on 3G that'd interest
> me.

I wonder how many people told Alexander Graham Bell that "telephone! There's
certainly nothing on telephony that'd interest me" ;-)

/Henrik

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:06:31 +0100, HRO wrote:

> "michael turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:26:22 +0000, John Navas wrote:
>>
>> Yup I'd agree with that...there's certainly nothing on 3G that'd interest
>> me.
>
> I wonder how many people told Alexander Graham Bell that "telephone! There's
> certainly nothing on telephony that'd interest me" ;-)

But Mr A. G. Bell invented something that was genuinely useful, and my
existing GSM phone does that very well. :-)

Whereas all 3G (at least in the UK at the moment), seem to offer in
addition to basic telephony, is *expensive* video-calls and a
walled-garden of *pay-per-view* stuff.

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I agree. I am waiting for 3G and have uses for it.

But until the public can see a use for it, it's just another cost they can
avoid.
Lost cost or free is what they are after right now. Most of 'em can go home
or stay at work and surf the internet all they want for free or low cost
right now, as compared to 3G. The people on these NG's are generally more
savvy then the average phone user who just want to make and receive calls.
Right now, coverage and clarity are more important to customers than 3G.
What good is 3G when you have no coverage?
I would rather the carriers put the $$$ into coverage than limited use data
services.

Al Bell had to also put the vision in peoples heads, which I don't see
happening yet with the current carriers and 3G.
The current data services have been primarily marketed to business users.
Now you have picture phone users but, how many of them are there?
Out of the entire Cellular market, how many have picture data plans on their
plan/contract?

It'll come soon enough. But for now, it's mainly for the geeks, business
users and now, the few game users and phone picture takers out there.
It won't be long though...... ;-)

Scotty


"HRO" <[email protected]ÆT_SELV> wrote in message
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> "michael turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news[email protected]...
> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:26:22 +0000, John Navas wrote:
> >
> > Yup I'd agree with that...there's certainly nothing on 3G that'd
interest
> > me.
>
> I wonder how many people told Alexander Graham Bell that "telephone!
There's
> certainly nothing on telephony that'd interest me" ;-)
>
> /Henrik
>
>

michael turner wrote:
> Whereas all 3G (at least in the UK at the moment), seem to offer in
> addition to basic telephony, is *expensive* video-calls and a
> walled-garden of *pay-per-view* stuff.

Can I point out that when GSM, TDMA and AMPS were introduced for the
first time people said exactly the same thing about the cost. People
said "Why buy a mobile phone? It is so expensive to make calls to other
people on a mobile phone compared to land lines!".

Now there is over 1 billion GSM users all around the world. This is
despite the fact in some countries (such as Australia and New Zealand)
Mobile Phone calls are still quite expensive.

I expect the same thing will happen with 3GSM. It will start off as
expensive, then eventually people will find certain features useful (eg
High Speed wireless Internet, Video Calls) useful and people will start
to depend on them. Prices will also eventually come down as they have
done for older technology.

- James