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Jughead:I like a good coincident so try this one...
Cost to build a new GSM net work, about 1 billion dollars.
guesstimated sale price of yellow pages, about 1 billion dollars...
juha: Yeah, could be... kind of makes sense what Sbiddle says, that the operators would be better off cooperating on this.
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Antoniosk
Jughead:
Cost to build a new GSM net work, about 1 billion dollars.
guesstimated sale price of yellow pages, about 1 billion dollars...
makes you think...
Jughead: I have no idea how much it would cost I only based my estimate on media reports. How much does a new cell site cost? casuse they need a few hundered of em.
Jughead: many people have compared GSM / CDMA with BETA/VHS
BETA is the surperior technology and is still used in the television industry today but VHS won with superior distrubution and marketing...
DylanReeve:
VHS won because of porn. Sony refused to allow pornographic content to be released on Betamax. If you wanted porn you had to buy VHS.
timestyles:DylanReeve:
VHS won because of porn. Sony refused to allow pornographic content to be released on Betamax. If you wanted porn you had to buy VHS.
I'm not so sure on that. I recall reading a brochure from a porn video store (as you do) in about '86 that said that some videos came out only in Beta, and wondering why, since the VHS/Beta war was almost over by then.
My understanding was that when Beta came out, the size of the cassettes meant that you couldn't record 2 hours on it, until later on when the tape thickness reduced to allow it. That may have reduced desirability for some early customers.
juha: This should be in a thread of its own, and not hijack the Telecom/Voda co-lo one, but... the VHS owing its success to porn is I believe a myth. In order for theory to hold, there would have to be a large, existing user base of VHS owners wanting to buy mostly porn driving the adult industry, something that clearly wasn't the case.
Betamax was in fact the biggest format, but Sony didn't play nicely with other Japanese makers that turned to an alternative format - VHS. A comparison between the locked-in and proprietary Apple Macintosh design and the open, PC architecture is more apt. Then there was the issue of recording time: VHS offered four hours, but Sony didn't want to do that with Betamax, which was stuck at one hour only.
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