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To: Ruffian who wrote (23108)	2/19/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

...and the winners are... "The buzz in the industry these days is that the winners of the 21st Century will be those that can offer homes and businesses a complete package of services -- local, long-distance, wireless, data and Internet -- in one bill. This idea also has an accompanying, if inelegant, buzzword -- bundling." This idea is of the necessary but not sufficient persuasion. The winners of the 21st Century will probably still be frogs if we go by the total amount, length and variety of DNA in a certain category. With India winning in the longest DNA, most variety and total kilograms of it in the human species. Most kilograms of brains category as well [China's one child policy has seen to that]. But in the 'wireless telecoms winners' category the idea that providing a single service to a worldwide telecoms network with a single bill will create a winner is the last gasp of the biggest is greatest theory. Sure people will want to just have one account so that they know who to blame when things go wrong and there is no point in having lots of bits of paper and accounts anyway. Even if they are all electronic. But the winner could just as well be a one man band in Eketahuna who provides a one-stop shop with a url from which you can get all your telecoms stuff. Order your Anita [TM], which arrives ready turned on saying "Hi Pete - touch the screen at the ? if you have any questions. I hope you enjoy the service". Pete then puts in his bank account details, PIN, stock market provider, and makes a couple of calls. Reads some news on SI, and watches Clinton [Hillary] hand over the reign to Al Gore [who will be REALLY sick of being vice president after another 8 years]. Gets an email with $E10 [10 Eudoracoin] to pop in his Q! account. Takes a short video of his two children in the pool with the built-in digital camera and emails it to his Mum with a voice over. Checks his WWeb account and presses 'pay' since it looks okay. Flies out to the end of the ranch to check stock then phones [via Globalstar] to order more stockfeed and see what his pal in town thinks of the beef auction action. Later, goes to the footy [paying from his $E account] and when Mark McGiver scores a touchdown, goes to phone his pal in town but sees Anita [TM] saying 'Current price is $E10 per minute' so decides to wait five minutes for the excitement to ease. Pulls out a slice of bread and presses the 'Vegemite Dispenser' button for a snack while he waits. Views some 'Babes' in the WWeb while he waits, fantasizing that one day he'll set up his own local WWeb network since 'Babes' are so cheap these days. So sure, the winners will provide 'bundling'. But that is like saying the winners in the car industry will include petrol tanks. [Or diesel in the case of Valueman who likes brute force]. Mqurice [Thanks Metman!]