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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>On 1/19/07 8:56 PM, "Pius A. Uzamere II" <pius@alum.mit.edu> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>>The best bet may be to come up with a standard, well-designed API <BR>
>that carriers could implement to allow handsets to get visual voicemail. <BR>
>In a few years or less, some carriers may get behind it.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>That’s absolutely the best approach, and the best forum in which to pursue such things (in my opinion) is initiatives like the Linux Phone Standards Forum, etc... See <a href="http://www.lipsforum.org...">http://www.lipsforum.org...</a><BR>
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An ad-hoc approach to a problem like this seems intemperate, hasty and prone to fragmentation.<BR>
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