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IP: Forbes.com: Say What? [More Press realizing that Cellular Phones aren't going to make it]
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:31:33 -0500
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:24:57 -0800 From: Robert J Berger <rberger () ultradevices com> By making it, I mean being a major way we do activities other than mediocre, but mobile voice service... And they may financially crash as well... "...Such problems are all too common in the cellular business. Fifteen years after wireless went mainstream, dropped, blocked and staticky calls remain a constant source of aggravation. The U.S. industry has spent $80 billion building and expanding networks since 1985half of that in just the past four years. But to legions of frustrated customers, it wasn't nearly enough. ... The sad truth is it could get worse. AT&T, Verizon and other carriers have signed up new customers at a far faster rate than they have increased network spending. The U.S. now has 100 million wireless subscribers, more than triple the total in 1995but annual network spending has barely doubled. The wireless industry's network spending amounted to only $490 for each new subscriber last year, only half as much as in the three previous years, Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association data show. Building next-generation networks could require worldwide spending of a staggering $250 billion in just the next three years, says equipment maker Nortel. That could include $60 billion in the U.S. alone. It is questionable whether carriers, even if they were willing to spend what's needed, could raise such massive sums at a time when the stock market is manic-depressive and junk bonds are in disarray...." http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0122/124.html -- Robert J. Berger UltraDevices, Inc. 257 Castro Street, Suite 223 Mt. View CA. 94041 Email: rberger () ultradevices com http://www.ultradevices.com Voice: 408-882-4755 Fax: 408-490-2868
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