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Last Words, 8/2003 Archive
Fear Campaign Australian Herald Sun writes:
"Mobile phone users would face a fee of $50 under a plan being considered by the Federal Government to include hands-free kits with every phone purchase. Under the scheme to combat road deaths and filter cancer-causing radiation, mobile phone companies would be forced to include the kits, for which users pay extra.
It looks like Herald Sun claims that mobile phones emit "cancer-causing radiation" and hands-free kits have "radiation filters" that can somehow separate "cancer-causing radiation" and non-cancer-causing radiation.
The writer should learn about ionising, non-ionising radiation and cancer before starting another round of hysteria campaign. This is not the greatest piece of journalism about the subject. Now one of the main news radios in Australia has pick-up the subject and is running with it.
(26/08/03) [perm link]
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| Finns Rule! The fourth Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships was on Saturday the 23rd of August, 2003 in Savonlinna, Finland. The equipment for the competition were original brands, such as Nokia, Ericsson and others. All mobile phones were provided by the organiser, Fennolingua, and they came with original batteries. The winner was Samu Santala with 66,62 metres!
(25/08/03) [perm link]
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Telecom Customer Respect MCI and Nextel scored highest in Customer Respect study (pdf) by The Customer Respect Group. Surprisingly Cisco and Qualcomm got a low score! (20/08/03) [perm link]
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BTS Blackout Power outage hits the North America and call volume overloads region's cell phone circuits. People try to find out why the cell phones did not work? and press claims that "cell phone service once again failed to step up in the face of calamity".
None of the articles tell how expesive it is to maintain large battery systems and back up generator that you will only use once in every twenty years. It just does not make economical sense to have those in every base station site. Roof top sites also have the loading and space problems, if all operators would need to upgrade their systems. Like any other services like emergency service, transportation system or the Internet, mobile networks are not designed to take an extra heavy peak load or to be run extended periods of time without electricity.
(16/08/03) [perm link]
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Success in telecom comes from being lucky?
The Inquirer writes: According to British market consultancy, Ovum, Nokia's recent good handset sales means the firm's just downright lucky. Ovum's chief analyst, Julian Hewitt, says Motorola has failed to capitalise on its StarTAC handset. Sony Ericsson has simply failed to deliver. Siemens doesn't understand design, while Philips and the French went nowhere. He's also not sure if Samsung can sustain its momentum.
Anyway: "This incompetence allowed Nokia to grab a 35-40% share, growing revenue from 9 to 30 billion Euros in just three years (1998-2000)," said Hewitt.
It looks like after all these insults, Ovum is not trying to get any consultancy business from telecom sector any time soon. Telecom sector is now waiting for Ovum to deny these comments. (02/08/03)
Ovum article, now the site is up again. (05/08/03)
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| 3G's Little Dark Secrets A good analysis of 3G problems. We are still waiting for a good selection of UMTS phones. Via TechDirt (02/08/03) [perm link]
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Brand Values Business Week has ranked the values of Global brands. Samsung seem to be increading its brand value fast. Here are the telcos:
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Rank
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Company
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Value
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Change
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6.
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Nokia
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29.44 Billion
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- 2%
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17.
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Cisco
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15.79 Billion
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- 3%
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20.
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Sony
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13.15 Billion
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- 5%
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25.
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Samsung
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10.85 Billion
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+ 31%
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80.
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Ericsson
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3.15 Billion
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- 12%
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81.
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Motorola
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3.10 Billion
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- 9%
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