Re: UKNM: E-commerce fiasco

[Mark Dolley]

David Brake,

david [dot] brakeukonline [dot] co [dot] uk

 wrote on 2/18/98 3:59 PM:

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>Surely NMA is whistling in the wind? Surely at this rate it will be well

>after 2000 before consumers buying online becomes a significant force in

>Europe?


Be careful about those sweeping generalisations. The French have been 

buying over Minitel for a decade already. And the online travel business 

does a huge amount of online trade every year in the UK with people 

finding last minute bargains on teletext.


So it really boils down to how you define "online" and how you define 

"significant force". Web-based commerce efforts have been but 

experimental drop in the bucket that is the grand scheme of things, with 

the main exceptions being here in the US where some activity in some 

segments are deserving of the description significant force. Two years 

ago, it was a different story and if Europe can make the progress over 

the next two years that the US has made over the last two then the year 

2000 looks to be a good date to shoot for.


Cheers,



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