Directions Magazine LBS article

Directions Magazine has an article by Scott Hotes outline LBS positives for Enterprise:
Location-based services (LBS) have resurged remarkably over this last year throughout the North American market. For over three years, location pioneers Bell Mobility and Nextel were alone in offering high precision (read GPS-based) services to their data customers. Then, last May, the silence was broken when Sprint PCS launched the Business Mobility Framework, offering location to its enterprise customers. This was quickly followed up with consumer A-GPS in September. Now with less than three weeks left in 2005 it looks as if Verizon Wireless may launch this year as well. As for GSM, SUPL (secure user plane) is finally an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standard, and infrastructure vendors are scrambling to line up handset manufacturers to put A-GPS onto Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) networks

He then goes on to outline 3 emergent trends and summarize the remaining challenges. And his last line:
There's no doubt that location will some day pervade mobile data services.Are we approaching critical mass? I'm betting on it.
Me too.

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