The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 08 March 2007 19:48
Could we be entering a phase where there simply won’t be an all-out winner, but one where all three games consoles happily co-exist, much as competing TV networks or websites exist today? Why does one particular games console have to win, exactly?
Of course, a ‘losing’ console will receive fewer new games which will eventually result in a ‘death spiral’ as happened with technologies like Betamax for consumers, despite Betamax still widely in use by professionals today.
The case for a winner between Blu-ray and HD DVD seems far clearer than a games console, which is really a powerful computer that plays games, and these days, much more besides, including Internet access and much, much more.
No-one truly considers Apple a loser because they have a 5% market share compared with Microsoft’s 90%+, do they? Indeed, Apple has never done better, nor has it ever made so much money.
Perhaps the reality of three successful games consoles on the market can be a reality after all. Only time will tell, but until then, the predictions, claims and counterclaims are unlikely to show any signs of slowing down, with Christmas 2007 set to be a tremendously spectacular battle for dominance, even if that true dominance may never come, but could instead be more or less equally shared in a way that has never happened before in the world of games consoles.
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