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ronin691 Posted Oct 25th 2007 10:41AM

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That sounds right - Or Google flashed them some potential numbers of what location based advertising on a 700MHz device/phone could bring in. After putting their eyeballs back in their head, Verizon immediately started fast tracking their own gPhone with GPS.

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