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 PATHChat
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Networked Communities?
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| FROM: |
MATT ASAY
mjasay@yahoo.com
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3/17/1999 3:09:00 PM |
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My company is currently developing an interactive
phone. The phone incorporates all of the features of a
standard phone (Call waiting, voice mail, etc.) with
the Internet (including e-mail, web access (dial-up or
network-based) and, in the near future, fax).
We are looking at the real estate development market as
a possible niche for the phone. In the past few
months, it has been made known to us that a trend (how
pronounced, we still don't know) is starting within the
real estate development market for "smart" communities,
i.e., master-planned communities or multifamily REITs
tied together by a network (Ethernet at present, though
HomePNA will likely alter this to some extent).
Just wondering how much of this anyone has seen.
I would also appreciate very much any insight anyone
can give into this trend for high-tech housing
communities (be they master-planned communities,
multifamily REITs, or whatever). A trend that will
last? Or is it simply a small phenomenon that will
quickly fade?
Matt
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Partnership for Advancing
Technology in Housing (PATH)
451 7th Street, SW, Rm. 8134
Washington, DC 20410-0001
Telephone: 202 708-4370 Fax: 202 708-5873
E-mail: pathnet@pathnet.org |
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