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To: JGoren who wrote (22074)	5/1/2002 9:35:24 PM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197227

GPS/data in Japan: "As for location-based services, we've been hearing a lot lately on how the KDDI GPS-enabled phones -- launched in December 2001 -- are gaining enterprise interest. One source close to KDDI pointed to the new Tr@Box enterprise-targeted service, to which individual handsets report their location in real time to a central dispatch tracking application. The system allows a dispatcher, for example, to input a customer's phone number, which is used to obtain destination details and a map from a database; these are then sent to the (closest) driver. The handset can report its location at arbitrary intervals -- say, every 60 or 300 seconds. Tr@Box provides its service for about 1,000 yen per terminal per month, which is fairly cheap. And while it only costs about 0.05 yen to obtain a single GPS fix, frequent fixes can add up, and it can cost up to 6,000 or 7,000 yen per month in usage fees (payable to KDDI, thank you very much); GPS access fees on the cdma2000 1X EV-DO system (due to start next year) should fall to only one-tenth this amount." japaninc.net