September 13, 2006
Illogical, Captain
LogicaCMG asks:
Martin says:
No. The loss of privacy value exceeds the extension of distribution value.
Their CTO is presenting in my breakout at the Telco 2.0 event next month, so I’d better stop there ;)
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I agree. Problem is we will both be red faced if it takes off for whatever surprise reason.
Posted by: at September 13, 2006 11:50 AMPresumably this will be a big hit with the people that want the caller ID to pop up on the TV when the phone rings...
Posted by: at September 14, 2006 12:00 PMIf it was such a great idea, DECT phones and TVs would have already "converged", or you'd just buy a gadget to plug into your TV and aerial socket that would integrate the two for you. I'm sure someone's already doing it, and there's a modest market -- but not enough to justify spending billions on network infrastructure for a service that can be implemented at the edge.
Posted by: at September 14, 2006 11:44 PM