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TKJunkMail
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Re: If you can't beat down your customer...

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If these incumbents were smart, they would embrace this. What this will do is allow Joe Sixpack to sit with Jack Sixpack in a 3G-enabled establishment, when Jack whips out his neat 3G toy and proceeds to swap bits and bytes. Joe gets an immediate sense of turgor in his nether-regions for such k3w3l technology, grows obsessive, and runs out and gets him some of that 3G for hisself.

Think: viral marketing.
An intelligent reply, unlike some of the above. Your scenario is certainly a possibility and one that the 3G providers should consider.
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Of course, the opportunities that this will offer for small businesses, such as restaurants, coffee shops, hairdressers and whatnot will be ignored by those who genuflect at the altar of the incumbents.

For the incumbents are wise, in profusion, whereas we are merely one-fodder-units.

Note to corporate lickspittles: If these incumbents were smart, they would embrace this. Verily, they are deploying 3G at a speed closer to that of glacial movement. What this will do is allow Joe Sixpack to sit with Jack Sixpack in a 3G-enabled establishment, when Jack whips out his neat 3G toy and proceeds to swap bits and bytes. Joe gets an immediate sense of turgor in his nether-regions for such k3w3l technology, grows obsessive, and runs out and gets him some of that 3G for hisself.

Think: viral marketing.


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Well, lets see now.

There is obviously a market for these kinds of devices, otherwise noone would make them. So part one of a successful business venture exists:

#1: There is a market for it
The technology exists today, and it can be created cheap enough to sell to people.

#2: The product is saleable and profitable
They can make the product BETTER than the 3rd party providers! They could make the cell phone plug in directly. They could build it into a cell phone. They could make an overall better experience for the end user than any 3rd party could.

#3: They could make it better
Oh, wait.. there's a problem. Hmm.. ahh, yes, GREED. See, they won't fill a market need, because they don't have MONOPOLY rights to it anymore! See, as soon as a 3rd party (i.e. competition) exists, they can no longer set down the terms of service. Hmm.. Guess the old school concept of monopoly makes them too stupid to change. The ONLY thing stopping them is they are too dumb and too greedy to change their methods of making money. In this, they share the same monopolistic views as the **AA's.
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