>>> From a very American/Euro-centric viewpoint: The telephone allowed access
>>> to "everyone". The cellular telephone bounced that to "everyone,
>>> everywhere". Ubiquitous broadband wireless networking will add the third
>>> dimension: expanding the equation to "everyone, everywhere, everything".
>>>
>>> Alas, they'll be no software... The concept of a "Personal Information
>>> Manager" has to expand to fit this coming reality.
>>
>> Your American/Euro-centric viewpoint is the problem here. This problem is
>> being solved in Japan as we speak. Look there for this solution, not the US
>> or Europe.
>
> I'd argue about which part of the aforementioned "problem" is being solved
> in Japan...
>
> Most of the "interesting" broadband wireless work to be coming out of Agere
> (formerly Lucent (think the Apple Airport)), Alcatel, Intersil, and Nokia.
>
> Japan is deploying a lot of technology early; however, they don't seem to be
> inventing much of it yet. Japan is sponsoring research via (the assumedly
> roughly translated) "Yokosuka Radio Communications Research Center,
> Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Public Management, Home
> Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications", but their publications are lagging
> the current "state of the art".
>
In what sense interesting? I'll agree that much of the basic technology for
3G is coming out of these organizations, but the 2G systems used in Japan
are entirely homegrown. Across the board the systems introduced in Japan
have been far ahead of anything else introduced elsewhere for the last ten
years.
If you are relying on translated articles to make your judgment, you are
wasting your time. Government documents are not translated on a timely
basis, nor are they current even when first published in Japanese. Look to
NTT or KDDI for the most current work, but that will not be available in
English.
>
> Still, I do expect that Japan's experiences in the early adoption of this
> technology which push the software and systems issues...
More important than the introduction of technology, the Japanese service
providers have developed successful business models - i.e., features and
services - that provide significant value to customers.
This is really too far off topic for this mailing list, so I think we should
discontinue this in this forum.
Eric Hildum
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