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To: trouthead who wrote (21081)	8/31/2000 2:20:33 PM
From: levy	Respond to of 28311

Junior I am trying to figure this all out but briefly here is what I know......insp has exclusive contract to set up the infrastructure with 88% of carriers that enables information and email services sent to and from cellphones or in the case of email to any other hardware device. This includes alerts on such things as news, horoscopes, lotteries, stocks ,etc......currently I do not believe the commerce stuff is up and running but I do not have the ability to check all carriers.....these things are set up on a private label portal page for each carrier which is powered by infospace. What infospace does not seem to have is the infrastructure to create a minibrowser ...that I think is being provided by phone.com to some carriers...in this case the user could program in certain cellular ready web pages and get some of the same or more information without using infospace products......I have not used this product but it is reported currently to not work well and will probably require better protocols than are currently available....in europe "wap" was suppose to make this work great but there are complaints even with "wap" and newer protocols are coming out but this all will probably be awhile until it gets to the USA....so for now I am thinking this might not be competition......the whole alert concept is one that I think will remain fairly unique to infospace product ....this area has some competition with barpoinit which is I believe developing a similar product with sprint.... also remember the concept of the merger which is to make all this stuff work across all platforms including broadband (set top Boxes), pdas etc.....from what I can see infospace stands alone in attempting to make all this work across all platforms.... read this again...if they pull this of you will be very rich prnewswire.com