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David K. Eichler 2G, chairman of the executive committee, Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention, asserted. "We heartily endorse the declaration of war against Japan, and we support all measures necessary for the defeat of Japan. Our positions with reference to involvement in European military affairs remains unchanged...
...delighted to point out. This is the narrative almost every commentator has seized upon: Hutchison is entering a saturated market of entrenched incumbents with an untested product and no killer application. The primary benefit of 3G is, simply, speed. Data-transfer rates are about seven times those of 2G phones, and 3G is usually at least twice as fast as 2.5G. High bandwidth means 3G networks can handle more volume, all things being equal, so they are cheaper and more efficient to manage...
...fact, Rabbit appears to be the single misstep in a series of spectacular wins. A large portion of the money Li is using to build a 3G network comes from the successes of his 2G investments. Li and his team, led by group managing director Canning Fok, were the same folks who built Orange into a leading mobile carrier in the United Kingdom before unloading their 49% stake for a cool $21.5 billion in 1999. Soon thereafter, Hutchison Whampoa sold its 23% stake in U.S. wireless firm Voicestream to Deutsche Telekom for another $9 billion...
...Takaharu Sue, a 30-year-old office manager in Tokyo, owns the latest 2G phone from DoCoMo and has no plans to upgrade. "At this point," he asks, "what's the point?" Only 42,000 FOMA handsets have been sold?far fewer than the 150,000 the company had modestly projected to move by March. While the company is publicly sticking to its forecasts, Tachikawa recently admitted that 3G uptake "is lower than we expected...
First-generation technology, you'll recall, allowed homemakers to call their partners on the way home from work to nag them to pick up the dry cleaning. (It succeeded zero-generation: yelling real loud.) That begat 2G, which most of us use, though rarely to its full potential, which includes text messaging and sending smiley faces to classmates. (DoCoMo became a renewed symbol of Japanese tech prowess by popularizing those features, especially with the young, through its i-mode service.) 3G is an exponential jump, allowing one to do pretty much anything a PC can, anywhere. Its hype was such...