Ericsson

Ericsson does not expect to generate income directly from selling WAP services (apart from some niche applications that require specialist expertise), but if WAP does become widely available, Ericsson stands to gain real revenue from:

Ø       Terminals, such as the MC218 organizer, R320 WAP phone and R380 EPOC-enabled phone

Ø       Infrastructure, such as base stations, access routers, portals and even telephone exchanges due to increased telephone traffic

Ø       Consultancy, training, and solutions support for new operators and developers of WAP services

An example of the type of niche application that Ericsson is developing is the BT/Telfort Euro 2000 site. This site was to be available during the championship, and the number of users across Europe was very difficult to estimate. The service also had to be "right first time", as there was not an opportunity to re-engineer the service. Because of various factors, one of them being that loading was so critical, JAWAP was not used for this site.

The Euro 2000 site is currently still active. See the URL: http://193.78.100.17/scripts/SA/PHSA/wml/common/main.wml

Recent forecasts are that Ericsson will gain only 1% of wireless sites, and that some of these will be more strategic than profitable. We at Ericsson are very satisfied with JAWAP, and we're happy to assist in the development and deployment of services with a low cost of entry. The following are downloadable, free, and form the basis for any startup service development:

Ø       Java 2 SDK, JAVA Development Kit: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3

Ø       JSDK, JAVA Servlet Development Kit: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet

Ø       JAWAP, Java Application Framework: http://www.ericsson.com/developerszone

Ø       Ericsson WAP IDE, Ericsson R320 Emulator: http://www.ericsson.com/developerszone

Ø       Nokia 7110 SDK, Nokia 7110 Emulator: http://www.forum-nokia.com

Ø       Phone.com SDK, Motorola P7389 Emulator: http://www.phone.com