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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Susan G who wrote (21144)	9/5/2000 11:07:04 PM
From: levy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Susan I was thinking that I had heard over in Finland they were way ahead in the use of cell phones to do stuff so I was thinking if infospace is planning on being a big player why aren't they over there in some way so I put my "crack" team on this and came up with this info.....it looks like infospace is or was involved with Sonera a Finnish telecom company...infospace helped set up something called zed.com for them.....zed looks like it offers a lot more things than here in the states sonera.fi ... go to the site and check it out zed.com ..... but it is hard to figure out exactly what infospace is involved in as my "crack" team could find only a one liner about infospace's role in the below article...see last sentence. Report Advises Partnerships For Mobile E-commerce Success By Emily Bourne 15 February 2000 Partnerships with Internet and mobile portals and the swift establishment of a good portal site will be key to success in the mobile e-commerce market. So says a new report by U.K.-based telecoms consultants, Analysys, on the possibilities for mobile operators generated by mobile e-commerce. "Mobile E-commerce" by Katrina Bond and Danny Williams suggests operators should invest in location technologies and provide payment processing in order to capitalise on new revenue sources. "It will be challenging for them," said Bond. "It's a different way of thinking about business." She said that, through their vital knowledge about the location of the user, mobile operators are in a stronger position than their fixed counterparts when it comes to generating revenue from e-commerce. The report concludes that mobile carriers do not possess the skills to compete on their own, but can establish profitable partnerships with Internet and mobile portal start-ups. This will give them access to content alliances and necessary experience, in return for which they provide customers, branding, billing relationships and location information. Bond cited BT Cellnet and Sonera Corp., two operators which have set up a portal as a subsidiary. Cellnet's Genie Internet portal is keen to stress its independence. Cellnet worked with Al Digital and BT Syncordia, while Sonera used InfoSpace to set up Zed. for more details on sonera nd zed go here sonera.fi