Alcatel Brings Online Internet Access to GSM Mobile Phones.CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1998--Alcatel today announced the signing of a licence agreement with Unwired Planet, Inc. (UP) which will result in the launch of the world's first GSM mobile phones with online Internet access See how to access the Internet. . Resulting from a year-long association with Unwired Planet[TM] and integrating the company's innovative microbrowser A Web browser designed for small display screens on smartphones and other handheld wireless devices. See smartphone and WAP. , this agreement will give Alcatel a leading edge market application based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. ), that leading telecommunications groups are now supporting as the emerging industry standard. This association heralds a new step in the accessibility and impact of the Internet. Alcatel is one of Europe's early adopters of the Internet microbrowser technology created by Silicon Valley-based Unwired Planet. Alcatel is introducing a solution allowing GSM subscribers to easily interact with live Internet-based content and services directly from their handsets. The One Touch[TM] line of phones, featuring extra-large full-graphic displays and simple navigation keys, represents the ideal platform to provide user-friendly value-added services. "This remarkable time to market performance supports Alcatel's Hi-Speed mission to make the Internet's value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services accessible to the mainstream consumer market," says Patrick Liot, President of Alcatel's Professional and Consumer Division. "Alcatel is proud to be the first handset manufacturer to move towards WAP compliance in Europe by working with UP, a WAP technology leader." Alcatel GSM subscribers will have fully interactive access to key Web-based information, such as Email, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , news updates, entertainment listings, directories and electronic commerce applications. Unwired Planet's open software architecture opens the door for operators as well as content providers to provide an efficient and economical way to deliver Internet-based services to wireless subscribers. Without the need of a PC or modem, Alcatel and Unwired Planet are achieving what has been announced for some time: the convergence of GSM technology and the Internet. Alcatel mobile phones powered by UP will first be demonstrated at CeBIT '98 in Hannover, Germany, 19-25 March 1998. "UP's wireless Internet technology has strong backing in the US and it now provides the underlying basis for a new worldwide standard," said Malcolm Bird, Managing Director, Unwired Planet (Europe) Limited. "In working with Alcatel, we have an innovative partnership committed to bringing the benefits of these standards to mobile users worldwide." The WAP specification is an open platform that allows mobile devices to browse live Internet or intranet-based information through existing GSM network infrastructure. Alcatel plans to join the WAP Forum (Wireless Application Protocol Forum, Mountain View, CA, www.wapforum.org) An organization founded in 1997 to promote a wireless standard for smartphones and mobile terminals. In 2002, it merged into the Open Mobile Alliance. See OMA and WAP. created in January, 1998, to promote the standard globally. The WAP Forum, a non-profit company, aims to administer the worldwide WAP specification process and facilitate new companies contributing to WAP specification work. About Alcatel Professional and Consumer Division The mission of Alcatel's Professional & Consumer Division (PCD PCD polycystic disease. ) is to serve world markets in professional and consumer telephony. Its products range from small communication systems for business use to residential, mobile (particularly GSM) and Internet telephones for the mass market. Alcatel has achieved more than 25% growth in value terms in 1997 and growing visibility in the consumer segment of the market - thanks in particular to the global success of its One Touch line of GSM phones. By the year 2000, Alcatel PCD aims to become a leader in the mobile telephone and Internet access markets with a strategy of bringing groundbreaking technology to market at Hi-Speed. About Unwired Planet Headquartered in Silicon Valley, USA, with overseas operations in the United Kingdom and Japan, Unwired Planet, Inc. (UP) is a leading supplier of open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced based servers and microbrowsers to the wireless industry. UP provides secure, vendor-independent solutions that empower operators of wireless networks and their subscribers with interactive live access to Web-based information and applications, such as Email, Personal Organizer, and TeleServices. Unwired Planet's UP.Link[TM] Server Suite has been commercially available since 1996. Unwired Planet co-founded the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum, and as such will deliver products in full compliance with WAP specifications in 1998. Unwired Planet's products support the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. , CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A low-speed, digital, wireless data network that is an enhancement to an existing analog cellular network. Based on IBM's CelluPlan II, CDPD provides a packet overlay onto the AMPS network and moves data at 19. , GSM, PHS (Personal Handyphone System) A TDMA-based cellular phone system introduced in Japan in mid-1995. Operating in the 1880-1930 MHz band, PHS uses microcells that cover an area only 100 to 500 meters in diameter, resulting in lower equipment costs but requiring more base , PDC (1) (Primary Domain Controller) A Windows NT/2000 service that manages security for its local domain. Every domain has one PDC, which contains a database of usernames, passwords and permissions. and TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). wireless airlink standards. Visit the Unwired Planet Web Site at www.uplanet.com[R] or www.uplanet.co.uk. -0- Note to Editors: UP.Link and the Unwired Planet name and logo are trademarks and uplanet.com is a registered trademark of Unwired Planet, Inc. One Touch is a trademark of Alcatel. All Rights Reserved. CONTACT: Alcatel Professional and Consumer Division Yannick Waelly, 33(01)46 52 82 75 yannick.waelly@bsf.alcatel.fr or Unwired Planet United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. : Patricia Almon, 650/596-5251 fax 650/596-5299 pr@uplanet.com or Europe: Text 100 Ltd. Chris Wright, +44.181.242.4162 fax +44.181.735.3162 chrisw@text100.co.uk or Asia Pacific: Nihon Unwired Planet K.K. Misuzu Minamigawa, +81.3.5322.2936 fax +81.3.5322.2934 kaz@uplanet.com |
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