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...handheld market next year with the PlayStation Portable. Meanwhile, other companies, especially mobile-phone makers, are hoping to beat Sony to the punch by converting millions of cell-phone users into game addicts via their handsets. Nokia just debuted its N-Gage phone-plus-games gadget, while many 3G mobile phones available in Japan already rival Game Boy in graphics and playability...
...Chris Taylor's "Will You Buy Wi-Fi?" [TIME GLOBAL BUSINESS, May], an otherwise good article is marred by a throwaway line about 3G's being much better than Wi-Max, a new Wi-Fi standard, when users are traveling at high speeds. Our company, Wi-LAN Inc., has demonstrated since 1999 the performance of Wi-Max-like equipment with users moving at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. Then, we did tests with users traveling at 70 m.p.h. while receiving data at 20 Mbps (10 times the data rate theoretically achievable by 3G systems). We have also received data...
...last month, slashed the workforce from 107,000 in 2001 to 61,000 as the company's turnover went from close to $36 billion to a relatively anemic $12 billion a year. The cause was obvious: mobile-telephone operators spent $200 billion to buy the licenses for third-generation (3G) mobile-phone networks, but ran out of money to pay for the actual technology and dramatically scaled back orders. Like most other telecom suppliers, Ericsson's stock was downsized too: from a high of almost $19 in 2000 to around 96? today. How does Svanberg plan to turn it around...
...margins for existing businesses (think of what the Net did to travel agencies). It's easy to see how a blazing-fast connection on a big-screen laptop--anytime, anywhere--might pose a threat to firms like Sprint and Verizon, which are investing billions of dollars to deliver fancy 3G data services over your cell phone or laptop at slower rates and steeper fees. Yet there's no proof consumers will pay. "No wireless data-only network in the world has ever made money," warns Andrew Seybold, a wireless analyst based in Los Gatos, Calif. That so many have rushed...
...mile, meaning it would take only 49 transmitters to blanket San Francisco. As Brilliant says with a grin, "Now it gets interesting." If you can cover entire cities with wireless Internet access, you suddenly have a very cheap alternative to cellular networks. But even Wi-Max won't kill 3G, which works much better when you're driving at high speed...