By Peter Cochrane
Published: Thursday 02 June 2005
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Name
Bob Leschhorn
Location
London
Occupation
Programmer
Comment
The government is not to blame for the extortionate license fees. The seeming irreality and greed of the mobile operators is to blame. Why didn't they do a quick calculation on the back of an envelope? 23 billion (9 zeros) in license fees + about 10-15 billion in infrastructure costs means an implementation cost of about £500 or more for every man, woman and child in this country. How did they expect to recover this? 3G? Remember Iridium?
Rollout too late? I don't think so - more too earl...
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 ...
Neil Owen
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