katzenjammer unter den mobile menschen? vielleicht. letztes jahr, brachte edge die lizenzerwerber zum jammern, heuer ist es scheinbar wlan. ist nicht gut, bringt nicht das, .. als zusätzliche möglichkeit wollen es nur die wenigsten akzeptieren. beide kämpfen um business kunden, beide interessiert der datenmarkt.

woman to quote on that jane zweig, the shosteck group, her talk about "the new wireless piranhas" was the best of the day. she said straight: 3g? financial burden is too high: in selected countries the costs for the infrastructure would be around 750 billion dollar. who would pay that?? 3g should go for low bandwith services, wlan and bluetooth for high bandwith services. even ricochets´ metricom and last week mobilestar went out of business, she things, it will fill the gap: it´s available now. it will add some value: complement technology, the name it here. well the frequences wlan is using is free. so there are some political questions envolved as well as security.

takeshi natsuni - it´s a shame, but the ntt docomo people are as strict in not giving interviews as telefonica - wasn´t as harsh at the umts community as he was in germany, but he said something the people here don´t like to hear: we have to get more of the internet way of thinking into the mobile world. normalmente these guys just say: keep those people out, because they have the notion: everything has to be for free. we can´t have this in here, because we have already invested too much."

im gegensatz was man so in den letzten tagen lesen konnte, meint hier bei der konferenz niemand, dass voice das argument für die zukunft von 3g sei. schon allein, weil die billing methode zu wenig einbringt.

it´s data, java, mp3, html, ... a lot of plattform discussion in here también. open architecture is one of the keywords in a lot of speeches.

the location this year is a sport hall. so you have signs for dressing rooms, a volleyballnet above your head or the speeches are held in a tent. the so called important part of the conference, where the future of 3g and new business modells are discussed, is happening in a room the sign outside says: springschnur(r)hüpfen: how should i interpret that???

schnurren und ueber die schnur hüpfen? ;-) anyway, i'm feeling sorry for those people: first the immense costs for umts-licenses, then the rumors about edge, and now those people using "their territory" for cheap and effective data-transport ... must be like paying a shitload of money for a "racing horse", and later on you figure out its not a racing horse, it's a nearly dead cow ... and the only ones who got it right always mention this "internet", but where the hell is the business plan of this strange thing to copy from?

ok, tippfehler, ich gebs ja zu oder freudscher versprecher? irgendwie schnurren sie mittlerweile ganz schön, um eine positive berichterstattung zu bekommen. von der arroganz der letzten jahre ist nicht mehr viel geblieben. heute sehen sich telcos damit konfrontiert, dass zulieferer es sich dreimal überlegen, ob sie wirklich in das projekt einsteigen, denn es ist nicht klar, ob sie am ende je bares sehen werden. gestern erzählte mir jemand, dass es in portugal in dieser hinsicht sehr schlecht aussieht.

when you want to put 2 business models on 1 infrastructure. One where you charge kids onethousand euros for 1 MB transmitted and 1 where you compete against 0,5 cents per MB transmitted: a factor of half a million. No wonder the service gap fries their brains.