[1456] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Nothing new about RadioMail (old hat)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Wed Oct 9 09:37:07 1991
To: Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@rxg.xerox.com
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 91 01:42:15 PDT."
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 91 09:34:58 -0400
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Actually if you dig a bit more you will find some differences:
(1) you'll notice that you can multiple pager services, transparently to
the people who are paging you.
(2) there is a profiling capability where messages of some characteristic
(such as FROM field) can be sent and others not
(3) RadioMail also does 2 way, not just 1 way like standard pagers
Marty
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The German Phone company has offered a videotext to pager service for about 4
years now. It allows an 80 character message to be sent to a `cityruf' or DBP
issued `Europager' if the receiving device has alpha-numeric receiving
capability. Since the DBP videotext system (Bildschirmtext) is accessable via
the internet, there have been all kinds of connection possibilities.
