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To: playavermont who wrote (22810)	12/14/2000 9:03:11 PM
From: levy	Respond to of 28311

that comparison is completely off.....the reason those are going out of business is the cost to provide those services are much higher than the advertising pay back......in this case the cost to provide the services will be low and the pay back enormous.......remember Naveen's chinese food story........you pick up your cell phone and say "chinese food".........your geo-coded cell phone responds without the use of a browser from phone.com naming the 5 closest and the promotion from "Sum Dum Guy" for the free spare ribs....so you go to "Sum Dum Guy" and get your free ribs and infospace gets a 5% kickback on your bill......further if you have auto bill pay buit in another 2% comes infospace's way.

To: playavermont who wrote (22810)	12/14/2000 10:23:27 PM
From: levy	Respond to of 28311

Playa, Mr Smooth Sarin says basic services will be free excerpt from an article in wireless week titled Spectrum Availability Looms Over Love-fest By Peggy Albright "Arun Sarin, CEO of InfoSpace Inc., predicted that because the wireless Internet is a new medium, there will be new winners in the fight among carriers for that business. However, that does not mean wireless carriers need to fear becoming "dumb pipes" for Internet service providers. "I'm betting on the fact that carriers who play their cards well.will win, possibly at the expense of the wired Internet," he predicted. Among the advantages wireless companies will have is the complexity that roaming brings to the business, which is hard for non-industry companies to deal with, and the always-changing wireless standards, which could still thwart any company's business plans. "We haven't seen the final standard yet," he promised. He said to look for more technologies that will optimize bandwidth for 2.5 and 3G systems. Sarin also believes that while the near-term killer applications will be wireless e-mail, address books and integrated content services, these will all eventually become free to customers as transaction-based and entertainment services emerge. The latter services eventually will subsidize the entry-level products." wirelessweek.com

To: playavermont who wrote (22810)	12/16/2000 1:40:32 AM
From: levy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

playa it looks like it will be quite awhile until I can get my free spare ribs at "SUM DUM GUY" or for that matter at any Chinese food place.........In all of Los Angeles not one Chinese place is signed up and but one in Seattle. This concept is in its infancy....here is what infospace has at the moment.....they purchased insiderdeals.com as part of prio purchase and changed it to paperless promotions.......you can try this out by signing up here infospace.com plug in stuff and you will see at the moment there are very few merchants actually signed up which is the current big limitation.....in the future infospace will make this technology work with geo-coded voice activated cell phones but that would seem a ways off, a distant illumination in the mind of our visionary leader, Naveen Jain.