Snackman, was today a good day or a bad day for Wave?
can't really tell anymore, they all seem so similar!
all wavoid armchair pyschology & subsequent attempts to steer/shape the dialog aside, as you already know, i spent about a month in Turkey last fall & except for the very far eastern regions bordering Iraq, Iran, Georgia & Armenia, i pretty much saw the entire country.
IMO today's PR is just another joke. the only tech in which Wave could play any significant role in Turkey that would be even remotely exciting as of today would be secure cell phones. Turkey doesn't have much (if any) fiber, their landlines completely suck & virtually everyone uses cell phones. towers stick up all over & clutter the landscape (& wireless is an infrastructure short-cut).
Of course, given some of the states which border Turkey to the east (& certainly some of the Turkish political factions), secure cell phones might also come w/a panoply of other issues (including a military-enforced secular "democracy" that has seen a half-dozen coup de tas in the last generation) to consider which might preclude fast & widespread adoption IMO.
Having seen most of the country first-hand, i can say w/certainty that they are a decade behind in computing technologies. Walk in to the biggest banks or markets in Istanbul or Ankara (for example) & you'd be lucky to see a few 486 machines tethered by ethernet cables duct-taped to the floor and called a "network."
The Turks are trying (& succeeding to some extent IMO) to move fast to catch up, create a market economy, join the EU & firmly align themselves with the West, but a huge portion of the country is poor and agrarian. Though the majority are bilingual and clearly identify w/the West (& damn near every one of them seem to want a U.S. visa!).
It'll be a great tech market (someday) IMO, but as far as selling ETS to the Turks today? that is a complete joke!
AND, if Wave held back this news for any reason whatsoever, it was an absolutely idiotic plan IMO.
The *only* time in recent months where this news would have garnered any degree of outside notice (beyond the wavoids) would have been during the recent NATO conference.
day late & a dollar short IMO...
good luck!
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