wireless services
"James P. Salsman" <bovik@best.com> Thu, 06 July 2000 09:10 UTC
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From: "James P. Salsman" <bovik@best.com>
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Subject: wireless services
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Where, and by whom, is wireless service with the following features offered? 1. An option for incoming telephone calls to go directly to voicemail, transmitting spoken messages asynchronously to a buffer inside the telephone transceiver, using a reliable transport of high quality audio. Messages could thereby be played back in regions without good RF conditions, and replayed any number of times without incurring additional airtime charges. 2. A means to send voice messages to email destinations with an Internet message containing a URL pointing to a web server with a choice of audio formats from which the message would be played back. Again, it would be preferable if such messages were buffered on the telephone transceiver, sent reliably, asynchronously, and using high quality audio, because RF congestion could cease to be a significant problem if circuit-switched telephone connections were replaced with the flexibility of packet TDMA. 3. A means to send similarly asynchronous messages to telephone destinations with an automated outbound call announcing the message sent and offering to play the message upon a touch-tone response, or announcing the telephone and access numbers with which the message can be retrieved (in case the announcement ends up in the recipient's voicemail.) 4. A means to send instructions for retrieving such messages using numeric page or SMS messages for other wireless destinations. 5. A means for recipients of messages as described in 2-4 above to reply with spoken or numeric or short text messages. The identity of the message being replied to should be clear from the characteristics of the reply. 6. A serial port on the telephone transceiver providing a PPP link to a laptop, palmtop, desktop, or server with severed net connection, etc. Any one of those features would provide far more value to me and most of the people I know than WAP. Who was/will be first to market with them? Asynchronous voice messaging is very useful when replies are easy -- which is not the case with most voicemail systems in use today. Effective asynchronous voice messaging will be a more important application than either web or email service on wireless platforms because the portable nature of wireless devices is simply antithetical to bulky keyboards and large displays. Cheers, James
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