Thomas Fellger

Still , It's a myth that Europe is ahead in wireless , says Thomas Fellger , who spent two years working for Deutsche Telekom in Tokyo before joining Berlin-based Metadesign as a wireless specialist.What's important as we move to higher bandwidth is smart devices and lots of content.In equipment the Japanese are about two years ahead , and the content is either Japanese or American - think Disney , Sony , Hollywood..

If Fellger is right , Europe's wireless players are going to have to start working a lot harder.

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The plan is to start up in Germany, then Belgium and Austria, followed by France and southern Europe before DoCoMo attempts to bring the worldís first working Internet phone service to the United States and Asia. ìI-mode is going to be a huge hit,î predicts Thomas Fellger, a wireless consultant at MetaDesign of Berlin. ìPeople are going to go crazy just for the handsets with their big color displays.The Europeans havenít seen anything like it.î

Thomas Fellger (Metadesign)
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Thomas Fellger "We can learn something by looking at the East".This is the motto with which Fellger introduced the fascinating tale of his three years spent in Japan, where he worked for NTT DoCoMo as an applications designer for I-Mode and for Deutsche Telekom.He has been back in Germany for only a short time.Fellger is currently director of MetaDesign, a company involved with the development of interfaces for I-Mode systems for NTT DoCoMo in Europe.

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"I-mode is going to be a huge hit," predicts Thomas Fellger, a wireless consultant at MetaDesign of Berlin."People are going to go crazy for the handsets, with their big color displays.The Europeans haven't seen anything like it."

No one outside Japan has.
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"It's an incredibly hot race in Europe," says Fellger, the Berlin consultant."The first to come out with mobile multimedia has the chance to build a huge customer base."

The biggest rival is Vodafone of Britain, which has launched a global buying spree of its own, including a foray onto DoCoMo turf in Japan.

I-mode is going to be a huge hit , predicts Thomas Fellger , a wireless consultant at MetaDesign of Berlin.People are going to go crazy just for the handsets with their big color displays.The Europeans haven't seen anything like it..

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It's an incredibly hot race in Europe , says Fellger , the Berlin consultant.The first to come out with mobile multimedia has the chance to build a huge customer base..The biggest rival is Vodafone of Britain , which has launched a global buying spree of its own , including a foray onto DoCoMo turf in Japan.As the first to market , DoCoMo still enjoys a clear advantage in the race to send Internet data over wireless phones.