Written by: Staffan Pehrson

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Ericsson is actively helping to shape the mobile Internet industry with enabling technologies, such as WAP, Bluetooth, EPOC, Parlay, GPRS, UMTS, and associated products. In particular, the wireless application protocol is an early enabler with the potential both to offer and unlock value in the emerging mobile Internet industry. In fact, WAP is probably the one technology that will kick-start the new industry and open the doors of opportunity.
The author describes the new wireless paradigm with its emerging business roles and opportunities. He then provides a brief background to WAP and goes on to compare it against competing technologies and solutions.

[First published in Ericsson Review no. 01, 2000]