[ih] GOSIP & compliance

[Bob Purvy]

Well, don't people in France ever want to look up numbers in Germany,
England, and Italy?

Also, there were lots of other apps on top of Minitel, including a dating
service! It did replace calls for directory assistance, but then people
discovered it could do a lot of other things, too.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 9:41 AM John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> It appears that Bob Purvy via Internet-history <bpurvy at gmail.com> said:
> >One still wonders why the other European PTTs didn't do their own and
> >interoperate with Minitel. Too much NIH?
>
> Remember that the business case for Minitel was that it would replace
> paper phone books and directory assistance operators.  Everything else
> was an add-on.  You didn't need to interoperate to do that.
>
> R's,
> John
>