[111583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot Lear)
Sun Feb 8 16:45:59 2009
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:45:51 +0100
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090208163203.GA97085@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2/8/09 5:32 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Lastly, you've assumed that only a "smart phone" (not that the term
> is well defined) needs an IP address. I believe this is wrong.
> There are plenty of simpler phones (e.g. not a PDA, touch screen,
> read your e-mail thing) that can use cellular data to WEP browse,
> or to fetch things like ring tones. They use an IP on the network.
>
The term is ill defined, but the general connotation is that they will
be supplanting dumb phones. So say what you will,phones with IP
addresses is likely to increase as a percentage of the installed base.
The only thing offsetting that is the indication that the U.S. is
saturating on total # of cell phones, which is what that article says.
Moving on...
Eliot
