Ericsson press release on WAP implementation below. So far as I can determine this is their own implementation of WAP and not UP.
Reuters,
Trial Wireless Internet System
Sunday July 18 6:05 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Global news and information company Reuters Group Plc and Swedish telecoms group Ericsson said they had started trials to deliver news and data to mobile phones using wireless Internet technology.
They said the project was the first stage of a program to deliver mobile data services to both financial professionals and individual investors.
Reuters would provide the news and data for the trial on new Ericsson mobile phones and hand-held devices, where the personalized displays of information such as share portfolios would be delivered using Internet technology.
The trials would start later this year, with Reuters introducing 1,000 of its financial services customers to the trial in key financial centers in Europe.
The trial would use Ericsson's ''mobile companion,'' the MC218, and its new GSM phone, the R380, which would be equipped with a microbrowser that uses the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
''The trial will assess the potential of wireless devices as a new distribution medium globally for Reuters news and information professionals, and to test mobile Internet-based services in a fully functional WAP environment,'' they said.
Elsewhere, Reuters and mobile telecommunications company Vodafone UK said they had started trials to deliver personalized news and information to mobile phone subscribers.
Stories corresponding to chosen categories or keywords would be broadcast to users' phones at pre-selected times or whenever the stories were published, Reuters said.
The trials, which use Vodafone's text messaging service, was currently running with several hundred Reuters and Vodafone employees.
Full commercial services were expected to be launched before the end of the year, they said.
Vodafone UK is part of newly merged Vodafone Airtouch Plc group. |
