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BT Cellnet Awards Mobile Gateway Deal To Phone.Com
RDSL
27 October 1999
BT Cellnet has awarded a contract to Phone.com, company formerly known as Unwired Planet, to provide a gateway for Cellnet's WAP mobile Internet service.
Cellnet said it is ready to launch WAP services as soon as suitable handsets become available. Such handsets are expected to be available in November 1999, according to Brian Greasley, general manager of Genie Internet, BT Cellnet's ISP unit.
Genie users will at first be able to receive and send E-mail over their phones, with music downloads and access to live auctions planned in 2000.
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BT Cellnet Teams Up With Freeserve For Mobile Internet
By Emily Bourne
02 December 1999
BT Cellnet has teemed up with its parent company, BT's, biggest U.K. internet rival , Freeserve, for a mobile Internet deal. The mobile operator's Genie Internet unit will cooperate with Freeserve from the beginning of next year to provide firstly SMS, and ultimately WAP-enabled services in the U.K.
The alliance will combine Freeserve's wide customer base with Genie's technology. "Freeserve has the content, Genie doesn't," said Sarah Skinner, an analyst at Durlacher Research Ltd. "BT Cellnet has the technology, Freeserve doesn't."
The first services will be available from late January - email notification via mobile phone and SMS from PC to mobile phone. The two companies aim to offer more sophisticated services as the technology, specifically WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), becomes available.
Wireless access will not be free, though it will be available to all mobile phone users in the U.K. Genie Internet was first launched in February. |
