AT&T is absolutely on the right track. |
Everyone is looking at the U.S. market. U.S. firms like to buy American. |
The RIM-NTP dispute has become a game of chicken. It's also almost a given that NTP will mightily contest the legitimacy of any workaround. And it will move forward to exhaust every avenue of appeal the court or the [U.S. Patent and Trademark Office] leave open. |
They'll need a really strong advertiser base. There are people who will pay [a monthly fee] not to be bombarded with advertising. |
This is clearly an e-commerce strategy. What AltaVista and other portals want to do is attract users to their portal, and the purpose of that is to drive e-commerce. |