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...debuted in 1999, i-mode was the world's first network linking mobile-phone users to the Internet. Japanese consumers loved the simple-to-use service and quickly adopted it for diversions such as online gaming, wireless e-commerce and displaying Hello Kitty on their color screens. Unlike clumsy WAP 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...
...stood on the beach talking to a brick, you still wouldn't make a call on one if a landline was available. And if voice services are skimming the edge of adequacy, that's still more than anyone could say of the "mobile Internet." Even the biggest boosters of wap-based online services compare their current offerings to such famously user-unfriendly products as dos. Telecom operators need to carry more voice and data traffic more reliably just to continue growing and to keep their promises to the stock market. But right now there's just not enough room...
...Nemeth marvels that his friends in Hungary are "miles ahead of me in their familiarity with technology: they know how to surf the Web on their mobile phones and download all the music files they want. It's truly breaking down barriers." Czech teenagers today are as adept with wap phones and Sony PlayStations as their Western counterparts. Meanwhile, gearheads like Lubos Lavicka, a 36-year-old from Broumov in the Czech Republic, find that getting a job in Western Europe has never been easier, or more lucrative. His starting salary at a Munich software company will be upwards...
...minutes using a regular 56KB/second telephone dial-up connection. The reason Europe Online is so speedy is that its network uses multiple technologies for the up-link to the satellite. Among them: cable modems, integrated services digital network (ISDN) lines, digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless application protocol (WAP) and other broadband distribution systems...
...kiosks at which passengers can select their seats. Ansett Australia has devices that print baggage-claim tags for domestic flights. A few carriers allow passengers to do the check-in ritual at home from a PC. British Airways customers in the U.K. can now pick their seat via a wap phone. And around the world, immigration departments are experimenting with palm recognition scanners to hasten the ordeal for frequent travelers...