Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
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Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
Assuming AT&T doesn't sell off its wireless division AGAIN and AT&T
doesn't jump fully into its announced parterships with carriers going
the GPS route and someone is willing to make phones that only work
with non-GPS carriers which are a fraction of the US market now.
I wouldn't put money on that bet.
None GPS phones will go away because of market forces, not regulation,
just like BetaMax, floppy drives (8, 5, or 3 inch, take your pick),
record players, 8 track and eventually ordinary photographic film
as the GPS phones will be more generally usefull.
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Why would market forces drive out the Non-GPS phones? Most people don't use
the GPS chip in the phone. The requirement for location is there because the
feds said it needed to be there and most people who do care just want 911 to
know where they are. They could care less how 911 knows where they are.
You totally missed the point.
Almost no one, as in regular people, is going to use the GPS chip in
the phone for anything. If phones start getting a GPS display, that will
change. I wouldn't think it will take long for that to happen.
The point is a big portion of the major carriers are going with GPS
technology.
To get on their network you will need a GPS phone. When your current
none-GPS phone dies, you will need to replace it with a GPS phone.
Even if you go with AT&T, if you want the ability to roam on other
carriers, you will need a GPS phone.
As time passes, the MAKERS of phones are more likely to make one
type of phone that contains both the GPS chip and the triangulation
stuff simply because it will be easier to support one manufacturing
line rather than two.
Now, if AT&T cells the wireless division all bets are off because the people
they sell it to are using the GPS system. But, I don't see that happening.
AT&T is just about back where they were in the 70s with just enough
competition to forestall another federal break-up. For more info please this
video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...85759717366066
It would be strange for AT&T to sell off the wireless operation AGAIN.
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Jim Pennino
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