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A. Newsletter English
1. Netscape´s WAP Browser
2. File-Swapping with WAP
3. UMTS-Auction in France
4. US Government wants to stop WAP-Monopoly
5. Alaska Air starts WAP Check-In Service
6. US License Auction: $ 16.85 Billion
7. Adult stories for Palm users
8. Bluetooth technology ready to boom
9. Japanese industry quick to adjust to XHTML Basic
10. Ericsson takes hardware manufacturing to the US
11. MobilCom starts first WAP-Bank
12. WAP and Mobile Commerce Events
1. Netscape´s WAP Browser
AOL is developing a WAP Microbrowser for Netscape. Netscape, which has been
acquired by AOL, will modify the Nokia WAP Browser and customize it for the
use of AOL's customers. Some new m-Commerce services are being planned as
well (2002)
(www.aol.com , www.aol.de )
2. File-Swapping with WAP
A Californian company has developed a software which makes it possible to
swap files with WAP phones. This kind of transaction has become extremely
popular on the regular internet, as Napster.com has proven during the last
year. Experts believe that file-swapping will start to boom once GPRS is
being used by most mobile phone users.
3. UMTS-Auction in France
The UMTS-auction in France has been disrupted. Two of the 4 contestants have
quit the race. Now, after the resigning of the conglomerate Suez Lyonnaise
des Eaux and Telefonica, as well as Bouygues Telecom, the only companies
left are Cegetel and Telecom France. This sudden change in the UMTS-auction
is taking off a lot of financial pressure of the 2 contestants and will
result in a rather disappointing income of the French government.
4. US Government wants to stop WAP-Monopoly
The US Federal Communications Commission is supervising the US mobile
communication market. Lately, there have been a few experts, who start to
believe that the biggest companies (i.e. Verizon Wireless and others) could
be trying to establish a WAP-monopoly. In order to avoid this, there could
and will be some steps against the largest mobile communication providers.
5. Alaska Air starts WAP Check-In Service
Alaska-Air has started the first check-in service with WAP in the US. This
service could help especially stressed business people to check in with
their mobiles or Palm Pilots. For now, this kind of check-in is only
possible in Seattle, but the service is also planned in several other
airports, to which Alaska Air is flying.
(http://www.alaskaair.com/ )
6. US License Auction: $ 16.85 Billion
Since the US is licensing areas and not the whole country, as in Europe,
there has been a license auction for 422 US mobile communication licenses.
The auction has ended on January 26 with a record total of $ 16.85 Billion.
The last license auction was back in 1996 and only totalled $ 9.2 Billion.
7. Adult stories for Palm users
A 20-year old college student has started a successful service for adult
users. Tony O'Neill of San Francisco is selling adult stories over the
wireless web for most Palm Pilot users. For the free subscription of 1
weekly story, O'Neill has more than 8000 customers. The full service, with
unlimited stories, is offered for $ 6 monthly and the customer base has
shrunken to several hundred. Nevertheless, this service is one of the first
of its kind world-wide. O'Neill has a very international customer base with
customers coming from 3 continents.
( http://www.palmstories.com/ )
8. Bluetooth technology ready to boom
A new study from Frost & Sullivan states that Bluetooth will finally start
to boom this year. The study also says that there will be over 11 million
Bluetooth devices sold; these devices go from a regular laptop to
specialized mobile communicators or mobile phones. Frost & Sullivan
calculated a total of US $ 2.5 Billion which the industry should generate
this year.
9. Japanese industry quick to adjust to XHTML Basic
The WWW Consortium is responsible for the setting of the technological
standards of the world wide web. Now, a new standard called XHTML Basic has
been verified by the WC3. This standard makes it possible to develop
browsers which can display the most popular wireless programming languages
with the same mobile device. The Japanese industry has been frantically
waiting for such a standard and they will be the first country to adapt and
use the standard right away. This means that there soon will be mobile
phones in Japan, which are able to display cHTML (I-MODE), MML and also WML.
(www.nttdocomo.com ) (www.openwave.com )
10. Ericsson takes hardware manufacturing to the US
Ericsson, one of the World's leading manufacturers of mobile phones, is
cooperating with a US-company. The mobile phone giant will take its
manufacturing from Sweden to the United States. Flextronics, the company,
which is overtaking the task, has already dealt with clients such as Nokia,
Lucent and IBM. The move to overseas will rob several thousand Ericsson
employees of their jobs. Experts do not know how the stock market will react
to the news in the long run.
(www.ericsson.com )
11. MobilCom (Germany) starts first WAP-Bank
After several banks world-wide already have WAP-services such as account
inquiries, the German billion-dollar telecommunications giant MobilCom is
starting a new WAP-concept. Together with the "Landesbank Baden-Württemberg"
is MobilCom founding the "MobilBank". This is, according to MobilCom the
first fully functional WAP-Bank world-wide. Services such as financial
transactions will become a reality in the WAP-world.
(www.mobilcom.de )
12. WAP and Mobile Commerce Events
In this newsletter we are starting to publish some information regarding
mobile commerce and WAP events in Europe. The information has been provided
by Informa.com. Check the websites for more information about fares for the
mobile commerce world.
* Mobile Commerce
8th to 10th May 2001
http://www.ibctelecoms.com/mobilecommerce/?source=mobcomccwap
* WAP Congress
17th and 18th May 2001
http://www.wapcongress.com/?source=ccwap
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