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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (2149)	8/20/2000 5:53:54 PM
From: techreports	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3070

Oh, you mean what else besides the head of Infospace being a crook and con-man? This has nothing to do with the fundamentals or Infospace as a company. Infospace has brought in many well respected people. Please show some facts. I guess if you dont care about that, then there's nothing wrong with this company at all. Except it continues to lose money, as you mentioned, and insiders are dumping hundreds of millions of dollars of stock as fast as they can. I thought Naveen Jain sold 1 or 2% of his holdings. Not that much. INSP will trade in the single digits before the year is out. The whole wireless song and dance is just a pathetic attempt to keep investors distracted a little longer, while naveen sells another hundred million dollars worth of stock. That's all. No proof. Just your opinion. Pick up a SprintPCS phone some day. There are a dozen vendors of information on there, all providing the same kind of data that infospace claims is only available through them. Naveen can say Infospace "owns the wireless market" as loudly as he wants, but he's just doing the thing he does best. LIE AND SMILE AT THE SAME TIME, AND MONETIZE SHAREHOLDER IGNORANCE. Geez...finally some thing having to do with Infospace's business. Is this reallly your best? Ok, i've seen a Sprint PCS phone. They use INSP for stock quotes i believe, but your right. Sprint does not rely on INSP. Now why don't you go pick up a phone from Verizon, ATT, SBC, GTE, Omnitel, Vodafone, VoiceStream, AirTouch, Austrian carrier ONE , or ALLTEL? Naveen can say Infospace "owns the wireless market" as loudly as he wants INSP has contracts with 88% of the market. What do you want? They are working on getting Sprint under the INSP umbra (to get 100% share). Let me ask you a question. If you were the CEO of a major wireless carrier company would you want your users going off to Yahoo to get their email, stock quotes, shopping guide, online games, ect.. on their cell phone. OR...would you want to keep the users under your control? That's the whole idea of private label and Infospace!. The carriers don't want to become that dumb connection where their is no difference between each other. Just ask Earthlink and Prodigy. By teaming up with INSP, they can try to make their services different from each other and also increase the switching costs for the user while retaining control over the user. This way the carriers get a piece of the portal on your cell phone unlike the ISPs in the PC sector.