Linked by David Adams on Wed 25th Sep 2002 15:53 UTC
The information that I could find on the web about Sprint's new '3G' high-speed data service was a little short on solid information, so I spoke with Kevin Packingham, Senior Manager of Business Marketing for SprintPCS' new Vision service. I sought him out because Ubiquitous, affordable high speed wireless data services are something of a holy grail for tech-savvy road warriors like myself, so I received each morsel of information about Sprint's new service with great interest. Mr. Packingham spoke over the phone and he clarified many of the questions that I had about the new service.
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If there would exist a "Country Inc." I believe that would be an "USA Inc.", for instance the US goverment always has a big mouth when it comes to open markets, but they themselves often do quite the opposite. If it comes down to unfair tax cuts for exporting companies, levying taxes on imported goods, bullying/sanctioning foreign policies, ignoring global environment issues, etc the USA sadly wins the crown... The country acts as one big self-promoting and self-centered company.
Europe's relative weakness lies in the fact many countries seem to have different standpoints. With regard to US states, these mostly do what the US goverment and President orders them to do, forming a huge mighty economic and political block.
Back to mobile technology, it is a mistake to think such innovative companies do not exist in Europe and Japan. Huge European and Japanese companies like Philips, Nokia, Sony, Kyocera, NTT DoCoMo, JVC, etc do alot of innovative wireless research as well, either "in-house" or by investing into smaller 3rd party companies.
Even European Tech executives acknowledge that Japan is far ahead with regard to mobile communications in comparison to the rest in the world. With regard to "implementation" the US is currently even lagging behind compared to western Europe!