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To: shuebert who wrote (23705)	4/27/2000 10:29:00 AM
From: saukriver	Respond to of 54805

Phone.com v. Infospace.com Susan, I don't know if this helps. But my Qualcomm 860 celldevice handset (purposfully not saying phone since it does data) carries Airtouch service ("now part of Verizon wireless . . ."). When I turn on the celldevice and connnect to the Net, "Unwired Planet" (former name of Phone.com) comes up on the screen. Then, I get my content from Infospace.com. So, it has both Phone.com (for the WAP conxtn?) and Infospace.com (for content?). Don't know why the content providers would be paying INSP; think that it would be other way around. INSP gets its revenue from customers plunk my.airtouch.net (no www) into a browser and then look at the address you were just taken to. I think Naveen Jain of Infospace was quoted somewhere in the past several months (I want to say around early March) that it gets $1-3 per Net access user per month from the wireless carriers for serving content. I cannot find the article, but he was quoted as saying something like, "You do the math; that is one sh--load of money." I thought that was funny for an interview, but unfortunately cannot find the article. OT--Think Airtouch has great service, at least in the Northwest. Agree with you that its rollout of the Net access was executed very speedily. Also, think the changeover to the Verizon name was executed in a matter of days, which is amazing discipline for a big companies merging together like Verizon. saukriver