Richard Weeks

Welcome, America! by Tom Dibble Welcome to the inaugural issue of what in our humble opinion will become North America's compulsory reading on what wireless is all about and what it's becoming before you guys and gals overtake us! Through the technological ages, the U.S. has always held the whip hand over Europe. That has now changed in one industry: wireless. For the first time in a while, Europeans have a massive head start on a number of different fronts. These range from carrier network technology standardization and WAP handset penetration to cultural acceptance. But it's not been an easy ride. Europe has been struggling for months now in a battle to win the consumer over to buying new WAP handsets and making them confident that WAP is actually worthwhile. Which in turn raises the question of just who gave WAP a bad name. It's clear and true that WAP isn't exac... (more)

The GSM Association M-Services Initiative

Throughout last year the single most talked about technology was WAP. This exciting new set of standards promised to free us from our desks by enabling us to access content on the Internet through our mobile phones wherever we were and whenever we wanted. The subsequent failure to deliver on this promise to the consumer with any degree of success has been well documented over the past year as, accompanied by what seemed at times to be a complete meltdown in the global telecoms economy, WAP suffered a series of often well-justified attacks and became simply and succinctly known as... (more)