At CeBIT 99, Orange, one of the world's most advanced and fastest growing, digital mobile phone companies, today announced an agreement with Nokia to begin a major trial of its wireless application technology (WAP) Gateway. WAP is an open global standard that allows multimedia services to be clearly and easily presented to the user on the phone through simple web-type on screen menus. It gives mobile phone users secure and instant interaction with internet and intranet information.
The Orange trial of the Nokia WAP Platform, starting today at CeBIT demonstrates a range of potential multi-media services that provide news, banking, entertainment, traffic and travel information to Orange customers in the UK.
The Nokia WAP Gateway enables WAP terminals to use WAP services located at Web servers. It is connected to both GSM and internet/ intranet networks and acts as a Gateway between them. Orange will be trialling the Nokia WAP Gateway using Nokia's recently launched media phone the Nokia 7110. Orange and Nokia are both members of the WAP forum.
Bob Fuller, chief operating officer and group director of UK operations, said: "This trial will bring Orange a step closer to its vision of the wirefree future. Orange believes that 90% of voice and data traffic will be wirefree by 2010. We are committed to trialling and introducing simple but sophisticated information services to provide extra value for our customers. This trial demonstrates once again how Orange is leading the field in innovation."
"Now that a de facto standard for WAP has been defined, the demand for wireless messaging and value-added services will explode," says Pekka Salonoja, vice president, Wireless Data Server Systems, Nokia Telecommunications. "Nokia is now the market leader in wireless data and we are bringing some of the first competitive WAP solutions to the market."
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