3G won’t get to critical mass soon enough for the service providers to be profitable soon enough. As a matter of fact, most of the GSM operators in Hong Kong are losing money.
The service providers will have to subsidize handsets in the beginning to increase adoption rate. Subscription isn’t much more than GSM, and because [...]
Making 3G Profitable
February 28th, 2004 · Comments Off
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Hellboy
February 28th, 2004 · Comments Off
The movie, and comics.
About ten years ago, attempts were made to introduce American comics into Hong Kong and published them in Chinese. Jade Comics (not controlled by Tony Wong, who was/had been in prison then) with much fanfare published a few X-Mens, while two smaller publishers published a couple of Lobo and Hellboy.
I had not [...]
First Brief Encounter w/ Hutchison 3G
February 28th, 2004 · 1 Comment
I passed Hutchison 3G’s sales centre in Hutchison House yesterday, and had a first peek at their offerings.
Two models, both from NEC, were on show. The cheap sub-HK$1K handset was flipping massive! It was in fact even bigger than my “Phone from Hell”. The more expensive models aren’t really much smaller, but then you wouldn’t [...]
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