On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:17:30AM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
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> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Sam Joseph wrote:
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> > Of course the real problem is creating a business model for
> > walkie-talkie functionality, cos once you sell the handset you don't
> > make any more money, right?
>
> I would expect a business model could be found, since one was found
> for the voice equivalant of the same thing. (There are a couple of
> companies in North America selling cellular phones that can also
> do direct, walkie-talkie-type communications with other similar
> cellular phones that are in range. And I believe it's even digital.)
Motorola has a proprietary protocol stack that supports this, called
iDEN. It is digital and somewhat similar to GSM at the high levels.
The only iDEN operator I'm aware of in the US is Nextel.
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Received on Tue Nov 19 13:52:10 2002