I think my AT&T cellphone has had email included free for some years now,
and my Quest phone wants $7.95 a month for a few hundred emails.

So far, this doesn't seem to have put anyone out of business.

I would think if anything, this would give MORE business to
the monitoring and alert vendors, as something needs to
send the correct email to the correct phone.

I do wonder why anyone wants a pager if they also have a cell phone
(although some tech support groups pass the pager around, but I assume
people are less likely to pass a cell phone around.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Hendriks [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Potentially useful US Site


Wilkinson, Mark <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
>>> SNIP>>>>

 Better still, the cellphone has
its own e-mail address, and can display text e-mail messages. So it becomes
trivially easy to write operations jobstreams that will alert me, day or
night, if they need attention, by firing off an e-mail message to my phone.

Is this going to put a whole industry of monitoring/paging/event alert
vendors out of business?