Exalink manufactures WAP gateway technology, and the purchase is a key move in Comverse's plan to diversify from the voicemail and messaging market. Comverse technology - a US-Israeli provider of messaging systems for wireless networks - has...
Circuit-switched WAP, popularly misinterpreted as simply 'WAP', was rightly panned for its poor usability. Packet based GPRS services are poised to deliver packet billed applications with better bandwidth than circuit-switched WAP, but the interim...
Billing for circuit-switched data is easy - a call is charged by the amount of time a customer spends online. BT Cellnet clearly has had some trouble working out a billing arrangement for its business clients, so how much harder will it be to...
BT launched its GPRS service to business users in June 2000, and Orange went live with HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data) this year, yet the consuming public could only get GPRS last month. Instead of the delay which users get with circuit...
It comes in two flavours, a circuit switched variant called ECSD, and a packet switched version called EGPRS. Late availability dogged the early months of WAP (before the more serious problems kicked in) and has had the same effect on GPRS.
But experts have pointed out that using WAP phones for connection to the internet is made insecure by the discontinuity between internet protocols and WAP protocols, requiring conversion at a WAP gateway.