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...MARLEY The Third World found a voice in rock 'n' roll when the legendary Jamaican and his Wailers took their Rastafarian, anticolonialist reggae to an international audience...
...been flagging of late. The fevered rate at which Japanese were signing up for service is slowing, as is average usage. Muscular competitors, including Vodafone, the largest cell-phone com-pany in the world, have stolen away customers in Japan's $70 billion home market. Meanwhile, efforts to expand internationally, considered crucial to DoCoMo's future growth, have been hamstrung by uncertain consumer demand for advanced third-generation wireless services and the global meltdown in telecommunications stocks...
...services offered elsewhere in the world, DoCoMo's proprietary system was a smash, registering 120% growth in new subscribers over the half-year ending Sept. 30. DoCoMo's profits leaped tenfold in four years; for the last fiscal year, ended March 2001, it posted record earnings of $3 billion. Last year DoCoMo overtook Toyota as Japan's biggest company, measured by market capitalization. When its share price peaked last spring, DoCoMo was the 11th-largest company in the world, with enough spare cash to buy a 16% chunk of AT&T Wireless, the third-largest mobile phone company...
...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, glitch-prone and have a relatively short battery life...
...other outcome went something like this: The Canadians, winners of every world championship since Nagano, would outshoot, outplay, outpass, and outscore their nemesis. At the end of the third period, they would throw their helmets in the air, their sticks on the ice, and launch themselves onto goalie Kim St.-Pierre in a wild celebration of Olympic victory...