It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either
A closed service available solely over the gprs network
Until the users want to access the same stuff from their
PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too
To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to
work like internet
brandon
It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either
A closed service available solely over the gprs network
* brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (Brandon Butterworth) [Fri 30 Sep 2005, 12:55 CEST]:
Until the users want to access the same stuff from their PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too
To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to work like internet
You are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on their phones outside their home country).
When a user "surfs the internet" from their handheld device they get the real Internet, not some walled garden that has .gprs.
-- Niels.
Hi,
>To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to
>work like internetYou are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure
in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users
have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on
their phones outside their home country).
He has a point. Remember "Het Net"* as it was before they proxiet to the
real internet. Users expected the internet and after a while, they got
it.