I am sorry that pure facts inspire so much profannity.
What I want is NO apps. What I want is an open pipe at a good cost. What I want is innovation by people outside the carriers groups.
Here is the link to my post about data...in case you got sucked down into a wave and didn't come up for more than 10 minutes...
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BTW - this is where I am working on new research these days.....
If I want to develop some new app or business today on wireline or DSL or cable modem, I just go do it. No holds barred, no problems. If I want to develop an app on VZ or PCS data, I have to first tell them what I am doing, get approval, figure a way to pay them for the use, and then go develop the app and sell it to my investors. If it isn't Brew or Java, then pretty much forget it.
Many ISPs are profitable if they concentrate on providing the pipe and not all the other BS that goes with it. I agree than MSN is a BS outfit and they are trying to control the apps as much as the pipe. That is exactly WHY they are a BS outfit. They also sell your "passport" data to the outside world so that your XP machine is nothing more than a giant popup ad display.
I am not advocating risky phone launches, just more expedient ones. I was one of the first to help qualify a phone wiht VZ in 1995 and they have been so picky about their proceedure that the mfgs have actually avoided doing business wiht them until they have to. It is not needed. They seriously need to evaluate what they do, cut down the over spec'ing of phones, the over testing of phones, and get on with it. Obviously you have no clue what I just wrote, since you have never designed a phone. I have. The over spec'ing is in the RF, not in the battery life and color phone features. They retest EVERY single function of the IS-95 spec plus 1x spec on each and every new phone launch. Even if the software and chipset have stayed the same. they have no idea how to shorten the test spec either.
As for Meter reading and alot of other apps, when I ran the Modules division at Qualcomm and was developing that business, the biggest impediment to the business at the time was the fact that the carriers would not open the pipe and allow outside entrepenuers to develop the business. All that is needed from the carrier for automatic meter reading is a reliable cheap offpeak data pipe that allows me to hook up a 1x or DO modem and download the days readings from 100 houses that I got thru either 802.11 or bluetooth locally. Or remote credit card reading wireless. Both VZ and PCS rejected that one when I asked for 4M minutes a year of data. 4M minutes of data at 4 cents a minute. Times 6 customers. And that was just 6 months of working at it. I finally had to stop the business because I had a product in which no carrier would support.
My point about losing the market to their competitors is real. Why do you think LWIN is having so much problems? they had all this cheap one rate stuff and guess what? They are getting their lunch served to them because AT&T and PCS have long distance AND bulk cheap voice pricing. So what can the CDMA carriers do to differntiate from teh TDMA guys? DATA.....
I hope this does not inspire yet another spree of consternation on your part, but rather some refelctive thinking on the problem. And for you and Mucho who think this is a Qualcomm inspired thing, get real. Try thinking for a minute with the big head. It is as much about VZ and how to DOMINATE the market as it is about data. Or they can just wait and slow roll this and watch when WCDMA and EDGE actually get rolled out in a year or so and lose the lead they have right now. That was my WHOLE POINT. Why you guys take this as a Qualcomm centric thing, I have no idea, but I can tell you have no idea of what your talking about.
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