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...encore? DoCoMo's president and head cheerleader Keiji Tachikawa hoped to maintain momentum by moving quickly into high-speed mobile data transmission, so-called 3G networks. The company became the first in the world to offer full-fledged commercial 3G service last fall when it unveiled its FOMA (Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access) system, a network so advanced it allows phones to download data-intensive graphics, MP3 music files and even to transmit video. But consumer acceptance has failed to match launch-day hype. Third-generation handsets cost three to five times as much as conventional phones. They are clunky...
...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...
...Wampeters," by the way, are objects (like the Holy Grail) around which the lives of otherwise unrelated people revolve. "Foma" are "harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls,"-such as "prosperity is just around the corner." A "granfalloon" is a "proud and meaningless association of human beings." As members of the Vonnegut granfalloon know, the words first appeared in one of Uncle Kurt's early novels, Cat's Cradle. · John Skow
...Gordeyev Family (Artkino), a Russian export amplified from a novel (Foma Gordeyev) by Maxim Gorky, is a visual experience that roars across the screen with the rage and razmakh of a flash fire on the steppes. Unfortunately it is also a piece of Marxist propaganda that suggests Premier Khrushchev might profitably send some of his moviemakers to Siberia-to stimulate corn production...
Recently Soviet Ambassador Foma Trebin complained to Venezuela's Provisional President Rómulo Betancourt that he had not seen him since presenting his credentials. Replied Betancourt: "It is certainly not that long, Mr. Ambassador. Why, we met on July 4th at the U.S. Embassy reception...