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To: pat mudge who wrote (138)	7/19/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 1080

Pat, Thanks much for link to: "Bell Atlantic Mobile, Motorola and Phone.com Collaborate to Create Over-the-Air Provisioning" OTA Provisioning has been used by US GSM operators since they launched commercial in the US in November 1995. Perhaps it is used already in CDMA community but if so I am unaware of it. BAM is my provider but I'll have to wait till they introduce this service with a Qualcomm phone <g>. - Eric -

To: pat mudge who wrote (138)	7/19/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1080

Pat, I'm still far from up to speed on what this is all about. Are over-the-air provisioning capabilities a standard product from PHCM< or is this a new service? Is is simply a way of describing the server side of their standard business? Also, as Eric says in the next post, over-the-air provisioning capabilities have been in other systems pre/WAP. Are they going to change and will it matter if a system is GSM, TDMA, or CDMA? This story seems to link the ability for Bell South to do this as a collaboration with Motorola and their handsets as well as PHCM. Why should this be handset dependent? Is it because MOT uses the PHCN micro browser? <<Bell Atlantic, Motorola and Phone.com are committed to the use of open standards, such as WAP, to achieve a flexible provisioning system that can rapidly adjust to fast-changing technology requirements. As mobile phones gain more functionality, such as Internet microbrowsers, contact management and email, the carrier must manage more complex user profiles. In the future, this provisioning system will be based on open standards and available to all CDMA carriers, handset manufacturers, and software suppliers. >> There is a standard in the works that could give PHCM a very powerful position, assuming they can have a patent or whatever that allows them to control this market. Anyway, this looks again like a good expansion of PHCM's market. I should think we'll see many more good days with this investment. Regards, Mark