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Article: GPRS services yet to attract masses
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- July 3, 2002
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Yu Wui Wui
New Straits Times
07-03-2002
GPRS services yet to attract masses
Byline: Yu Wui Wui
Edition: 2*
Memo: Graphics (Statistics) - Local GPRS services.
FROM delayed handsets to technical glitches and spectrum limitations, GPRS-based services have yet to prove their worth to either the enterprise or consumer markets. But more importantly, revenue from GPRS is still far too insignificant for operators in the region that have launched this service.
Charles Hanshaw, chief executive of Peoples Telephone Co Ltd, a telecommunications company in Hong Kong, says the lukewarm consumer response to GPRS is due to the many disappointments consumers had faced with the service. "Interests from ...