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Re: OT: Mobile Directories WAS: Large ISPs doing NAT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Baker)
Fri May 3 16:06:19 2002
From: "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:05:48 -0600
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <AD74E2EC6D5BEA47BCB067EB69D30AD205861213@petrified.mis.earthlink.net>; from alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net on Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:11:33PM -0700
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On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:11:33PM -0700, Rowland, Alan D wrote:
>
> You would think the phone companies who already have most of the necessary
> resources, i.e. the yellow pages/directory listings, would be all over this
> idea as a way to sell thier device/generate even more listing revenue.
>
> Killer app: Cell Phone/PDA/GPSw Mapping,routing in a Palm form factor.
>
> Just my 2¢. The delete key is your friend.
I can probably name you half a dozen companies which are, or were, "all
over" this sort of thing, and at least two of them are Bell/YP shops. I
used to work for one of the others (prior to the usual dot-com implosion).
Right now, they seem to expect you to 411 it, instead, and let the low-wage
humans on the other end of the line make a guess.
And remember: just because it's a killer app doesn't mean anyone is willing
to pay for it.
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