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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: justone who wrote (8495)9/14/2000 12:32:03 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
justone, I think that many (including myself) are of the opinion that WAP is a transitional fix. That is, it is a cleverly designed bandaid that is used to overcome the circumstances that are engendered by the speed limitations and usage costs of CDPD and older analog modes of data transmission.

Maybe WAP will persist on its own merits for certain niches for longer periods of time, but I don't see it retaining popular status once the so-called 3G'ers come into play. A lot will depend on the individual 2.5 and 3G implementations, how sticky certain WAP operators' web sites can make themselves -- the sites must be tailored to WAP protocols --, and how successful the next gen rollouts actually are.

WAP, IMO, based only upon what I've read on these topics, has too many limitations to allow it to be used as a mainstream vehicle over the longer term. But it 'is' conducive to IP and low volume messaging at attractive costs. I ask the following because I don't know (not rhetorical): Is SMS as conducive to IP networking in its native form? Maybe that's a silly question, because anything can be encapsulated. But is it done with SMS in an elegant manner?

Which of them would you consider most open and most extensible, in terms of breadth of applications and networkability, and which is not? I'm not conversant in the SMS protocol and its primitives, as I suspect you are. TIA.

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