By Peter Cochrane
Published: Thursday 02 June 2005
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Name
Antony Norris
Location
London, UK
Occupation
Recovering Workaholic
Comment
I agree with anonymous, the Government put it up for auction, and like any mug punter on ebay the mobile networks paid too much. Greed and bad business sense sunk 3G.
One other incidental point, as far as I know there still hasn't been released a PDA style phone that uses 3G. Now stop me if I'm wrong but trying to use broadband on a normal phone screen is rather pointless apart from the gimicky video phone.
Peter can you clear up a point I've pondered, was it BT who tried the home video phone in the 90's, which died a death. And did you have anything to do with it? ;)
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Knut Boehnert
Much common sense as always. One glaring error th...
Anonymous
I agree with anonymous, the Government put it up f...
Antony Norris
Dear Peter
Back in the early 90s I attended a c...
Anonymous
The government is not to blame for the extortionat...
Bob Leschhorn
What is Peter trying to say? That 3G will never ta...
Aleks
I think Mobile TV will happen in a big way but it ...
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