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...maker is concentrating on developing the software, known as middleware, that will enable this type of enriched content to be delivered to consumers and businesses. Though its competitor in this realm is Microsoft, Ollila is confident Nokia is better positioned to know what mobile users want. Nokia's first 3G mobile terminals - phones with high-speed Internet connections - are expected to start shipping in the third quarter of next year...
...telecommunications infrastructure, Nokia has recently managed to capture a greater percentage of the business. But a variety of factors - including the huge debt that operators have taken on to pay for 3G licenses - are leading to a slowdown in the construction of the base stations, switches and systems that will make the next generation of mobile phones work. Analysts at Credit Suisse First Boston think the global infrastructure market is not likely to recover until well into 2002. That means continued slower growth and margin pressure for Nokia...
...accounts for 60% of the domestic market. The firm has applications that consumers love - games, Hello Kitty screensavers - but also a business model that makes money from data fees, billing commissions and additional voice minutes. Now Tachikawa is moving beyond Japan, taking minority stakes in Britain's Hutchison 3G, the mobile unit of Dutch carrier KPN and AT&T Wireless in the U.S. He has also bought a controlling stake in AOL Japan, which he is recasting as DoCoMo...
...world economy. It doesn't have much horsepower. Exports to the U.S. are down, hurt by the slumping American economy. Domestic demand has been depressed by relatively high interest rates. Manufacturing is in recession, and telecom firms are hobbled by the obscene amounts they paid to license 3G cell phones...
Will Americans find great uses for 3G mobile capabilities--which include enhanced GPS location services with downloadable maps, group messaging and chat, e-mail, games, news, financial activities and Web browsing? Your pessimistic and downsized expectations may be on target, but I doubt...