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The Feature seems to think that this proves “operators can lure consumers to use mobile data – if they use the right bait” and “blows holes in the argument that cultural differences between European and Japanese users account for the lukewarm customer response to mobile data services in Europe.” Apparently Vodafone has managed to get a good enough service going by paying content providers enough – exactly what the Japanese did.

Update: The latest Feature piece says Vodafone is trumping iMode.

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Not only that, the BBC has been assigning production and development staff to the programme even before it received approval earlier this month. Commercial education publishers and software companies are up in arms over the BBC

The new weekly, The Industry Standard Europe, was the offshoot of the independent and grotesquely profitable US parent hailed as the internet