(keitai-l) Re: Phone Number Transmission when conneting with iMode

From my reading of the Docomo Technical Journal relating to the design of
i-mode, Docomo specifically do not pass on user's telephone number but a
unique subscriber ID to premium content sites. This was a deliberate act of
privacy-maintenance. It is always possible to ask the user for their number
of course, but is not reliable and is not automatic of course.

rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea Hoffmann" <ah@anima.de>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Monday, 28 August 2000 18:17 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Phone Number Transmission when conneting with iMode


> Hi,
>
> > From what I understand, official sites have access to full
> > header info, including the user telephone #. This is usually
> > also their email.
>
> ASAIK this is not true for i-mode (that official sites get the
> full header including the user's phone number), but even if it
> _would_ be true, is the phone number not automatically also the
> user's email address.
>
> Fact is that most people change their default email=phonenumber
> i-mode address (e.g. 09012345678@docomo.ne.jp) to something like
> ***suzuki@docomo.ne.jp.
>
> But as soon as you change your mail address like that, the old
> one (with the phone number) doesn't work anymore. which means
> that you can't rely on the phone number information to get the
> user's email address.
>
> > However, unofficial sites dont have this, so the best you can
> > do is have the form contain @docomo.ne.jp already.
>
> that is probably the best way for all i-mode sites right now and
> its also what you see on most i-mode sites.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrea
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